Looking for non-Hamachi solutions...

[Dire Roach]

...to play games LAN-style over the internets with a few buddies. Any suggestions?

 

[entertainer]

there is a program whose name i forgot

 

[treave]

There's Garena, but it doesn't support every single game, just the more popular ones.

 

[MetalCraze]

there is a program whose name i forgot

Tunngle

It however has a different "design" than Hamachi (which isn't too good). There are public rooms dedicated to different games (if some game is missing you can ask and they will add a room) where you gather and play the game. No it doesn't require you to be in that room specifically to play the game because you still get your own IPs much like in Hamachi and can connect to each other in any way you want, it's just the most comfortable way there to gather.

 

[Tails]

Dire Roach, check out Coopnet which is something like Gamespy Arcade but without any idiotic stuff.

 

[SoupNazi]

Yeah, Tunngle is very good.

 

[Dire Roach]

So I downloaded Tunngle but I haven't gotten around to actually playing a game with it yet. It kinda sucks compared to Hamachi that you need to bother registering an account with an email in order to use it. I might have to do the port-forwarding process as well. All these little details add up when trying to explain to my retard buddies how they have to go about setting things up.

I used to have Hamachi working perfectly with winXP a few years ago, but I can't get the damn thing working under Vista/7 after trying pretty much every possible fix.

Tails: I don't think I ever played a game via Gamespy Arcade... other than the Heretic 2 demo more than 10 years ago. What's so great about Coopnet? How (potentially) tedious is it to set up?

 

[SoupNazi]

If you need to forward ports in Tunngle then you would have needed to do it in Hamachi as well, iirc. I know I did when I wanted to play SC:Conviction co-op. (yeah yeah its popamole fuck me in the ass)

 

[zool]

Gameranger.

 

[Tails]

Tunngle has very annoying interface. Regarding Hamachi, only 1.0.1.5 is the most right working version.

Tails: I don't think I ever played a game via Gamespy Arcade... other than the Heretic 2 demo more than 10 years ago. What's so great about Coopnet? How (potentially) tedious is it to set up?

The great thing is that it works like Gamespy (provides for games connection trough Direct--thingie, which is important for games like Fallout: Tactics) and has user-friendly interface, no pointless things like avatars or commercials. You just create account (you don't need even to confirm registration by e-mail), Coopnet will detect atomically what games you have. Setting game is also just few clicks.

 

[Scott Kevill]

Does anyone even use Coopnet anymore? Every time I've looked, the server was completely empty and there was no one online.

The only game I've ever seen it recommended for was Fallout Tactics, yet everyone seems to playing that on GameRanger instead (averages around 30 FO:T games played per day, some days 80-90 games). Worse, Coopnet does nothing to help people with routers or LAN support, so it's probably not going to be what Dire Roach was looking for.