Further GameCube Tunneling Software Announced

Posted by simoniker on Sunday November 2, 2003 @03:32AM from the online-karting-cha-cha-cha dept.

Thanks to Planet GameCube for their news story revealing that a GameCube version of the Xbox-specific Xlink Messenger tunneling software is in progress. According to the site, "The XLink team says initial testing with the GameCube and their... [Windows] software ran 'nice and smooth'." This free utility, due out before the end of the year, is an alternative to the Warp Pipe GC tunneling software previously mentioned on Slashdot Games - the products allow you to play LAN-only GameCube games over the Internet using "a PC... a broadband connection, and a router or a second ethernet card to connect the GC to your PC", in the absence of significant Nintendo support for much-desired online play.

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Re:Online? What for? by JFMulder · 2003-11-02 05:21 · Score: 2, Informative

More than 5% in fact. 500,000 people have XLive and 10,000,000 have Xboxes. Still, it's not a lot, so it means not a lot of people play online anyway. I'm wondering how high is that percentage with computer games though.