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Warp Pipe Launches With Mario Kart Support

Posted by simoniker on from the banana-tailpipe-intersection dept.

jkeyes writes "The Warp Pipe project for playing LAN GameCube games online has just released Beta 0.3 for Windows. This is the first release to support Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, contains significant optimization, and even has region-free play, so you can battle against gamers from Japan or Europe - the first Macintosh beta is planned for next week."

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  1. Re:Warp Pipe GPL release... by Dave_B93 · · Score: 3, Informative
    That version is 2-3 weeks old and doens't work very well with MK:DD, also it isn't being maintained by anybody. (not to mention the fact that the source is still availible from sourceforge CVS for now which has a fatter pipe, or that they thought they'd gone closed source a few months ago, so having that code is kind of questionable)

    There's already 2 projects working on GC tunelling warppipe and X-Link, so I don't see how starting a new fork of warppipe off 3 week old code is going to help unless you're a lot better at network algorithms than I am, or you're just a roll-your-own kinda guy.

    Personally I'm going to try Warppipe tonight, then keep playing it till X-Link Kai comes out and compare the 2. I don't feel like hacking together someone's old code in hopes of getting my own solution working... but then again, I'm just lazy ;-)