Yeah it might be useful to expand this to create your own SFX to completely avoid the goofiness that overwriting causes.  A lot works, but a lot has issues.

I'll poke around and see if I can streamline any of this.  Sound tutorials are here but for this scenario there might be an alternate method considering we can now extract or use the global sound env, which did not exist when this post was made.

Quote from: Led on January 06, 2026, 04:34:48 PMwelcome to the site 

  Great thanks! And a special thank you for your work, guys! By the way, I'm somewhat familiar with Photoshop and I think I could help the community if needed. 🤝

welcome to the site 

Hey everyone! Yesterday I decided to play my favorite game in multiplayer for the first time. I'm a complete newbie, so I misjudged the friendliness of a live player who suddenly appeared among the bots. He patiently gestured while I shot at him nonstop

But eventually, his patience won out, and I finally figured it out. It turned out to be a great introduction and a tour of the iconic battlefront sites of SWBF. I'm truly happy to know that such cool and friendly people still play such a wonderful game!

Buddy, if you see this message, I want to thank you for the friendly 'sky shooting' and the spaceship rides! It was amazing!

P.S. My in-game nickname was 'Player 3' (I played on the Chicago server). I don't quite remember your nickname, but I'm sure you're a legend! 🚀✨🤝

you need to make a new sound sfx.

Hello everyone
Hope all you guys are fine
I will soon get a new pc for winfow 11 and
reinstall my swbf games on steam or swbfspy
I hope I will see you guys around, I miss you all
See you

-Sam/Majesty

You can't load two stock sound LVLs in like that as it will try to load samples from both into memory - and since stock sound calls imndividually take up a lot of the allocated sound memory, the result is an overload which results in no sounds playing.

It would seem to me that you have over-written certain sounds.  I don't have the expertise, but you would need to get the sound files, rename them, and then remunge them.  Even then, I'm not sure.

see these threads:

https://www.swbfgamers.com/index.php?topic=3495.msg37719#msg37719

https://www.swbfgamers.com/index.php?topic=4957.msg47434#msg47434

Quote from: SG-17 on December 30, 2025, 08:26:08 AMAs you may know, hosting a server from your home computer generally results in the Ping showing up as N/A in the server browser, at least on PS2. Is there a specific port that needs to be forwarded to allow the ping to show correctly?

I currently forward:
TCP: 3389, 3558, 3658, 3659, 4658, 6500, 27900, 29910, 29920, 45000, 50139, 50140, 50143, 50156, 50210, 59589, 59673
UDP: 3558, 3658, 3659, 4658, 6500, 27900, 29910, 29920

Am I missing any here?

If it really uses ping, then it is ICMP controlled and is not a port.



maybe the information here can help

https://www.google.com/search?q=firewall+setting+repond+to+ping&sca_esv=1fc1f57c86215af9&source=hp&ei=SadVaQ60ktDxD77M6rkD&iflsig=AOw8s4IAAAAAaVW1Wb_N4cRVU7an6rP-PB2PmztDZPlI&ved=0ahUKEwjOyMa-8-iRAxU0CTQIHT6mOjcQ4dUDCDE&uact=5&oq=firewall+setting+repond+to+ping&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz




You might see if there is a 'respond to ping' in your router/firewall.

My recollection is that this was an issue even before Gamespy went away.