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Warp Pipe Adds 8-Player Mario Kart, 1080 Avalanche Support

Posted by simoniker on from the many-tentacles-pimping-on-the-joypads dept.

Thanks to the Warp Pipe site for its announcement that the latest 0.3.1 version of their Warp Pipe tunneling software for GameCube has been released, with Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X flavors now sporting a bugfix allowing a full complement of Mario Kart: Double Dash!! competitors ("you can play with up to 8 players via two Cubes"), and partial support for new GameCube snowboarding title 1080 Avalanche, albeit with "some stability issues", for this software which "enables you to play LAN-supported GameCube games over the Internet for free with other GameCube gamers."

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  1. In other words... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...a handful of geeks have yet again done more to bring the Cube online than Nintendo ever has...

    It's strange that Nintendo doesn't seem to notice this. MKDD is a good game as it is, but it's very nature makes it better when playing multiple people (local or otherwise). I just don't see why they couldn't understand that a MK64 presale promo (admit it, that demo disc was only half decent, and a far cry from what N could've done as a favor to their fans) + online gameplay would've made it, by far, THE GCN game to have.

    1. Re:In other words... by Babbster · · Score: 3, Informative

      Don't forget the EXTRA special hosing received by those who made the mistake of the dial-up adapter because unlike Sony, Nintendo split dial-up and broadband. If they don't like, or get tired of, Phantasy Star Online (Eps. I and II; C.A.R.D. Battle), they're SOL.

    2. Re:In other words... by Babbster · · Score: 2, Funny
      You've got it right there. CLEARLY, anyone who has fun playing console games online has been duped by marketing and needs to get back to playing PC Counterstrike.

      /sarcasm

    3. Re:In other words... by bigman2003 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, I better get in a few more games of Top Spin, or Crimson Skies, before everyone else wises up to this.

      It is far, far better to play the same computer AI over and over again. So I can learn every nuance of 'okay, there will be a guy over here, and if I throw a grenade right THERE I will kill him.'

      Or better yet, I will devote myself to playing single player, so I can be like that guy who can beat Mario Brothers in like 8 minutes.

      Mario Bros. Movies

      Playing against humans on-line is just stupid! Why would I want to play a game against something as unpredictable as a people?

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      No reason to lie.
  2. Lag Issues by Prien715 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm expecting a Gamecube tomorrow so I'm curious. I've heard there's lots of issues with lag in this program. Has it been resolved or lessened in any way?

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    -- Political fascism requires a Fuhrer.
    1. Re:Lag Issues by seinman · · Score: 3, Informative

      I've been using Warp Pipe with MKDD for a month now, both the old version and the new. Lag is an issue if you play someone far away, although slightly less so with the new update. The game plays in slow motion in this case. If you play someone in your own state, the lag is still there, but it's small enough to be barely noticible and the game is still easy to play. If you play someone in your own town and especially on your own ISP, there's no lag, period.

  3. Maybe Nintendo thinks the lag is a quality issue? by Webapprentice · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With their high standards on the gameplay experience, they could have decided the lag wasn't worth it. They enabled the internal LAN instead. Though the other big blunder with the game is that when you plan LAN mode, the characters are randomly chosen.

  4. XLink by irate_canadian · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Forget Warppipe. Get Xlink instead. They're just about to do the second phase of beta testing for their new client, called "Kai" and then it'll have full Gamecube support.

    The release available now, RC2 Omega supports all Xbox games that have system link capability, and the new one improves on the UI, the lag issues, and adds GC support to boot.

    I don't know why anyone would use Warppipe in a few weeks, when Xlink will be able to play both Xbox AND GC with the same program, faster, and (although I'm not 100% sure) will support all GC games initially, instead of having to wait for support.

    Go check out the site. When Kai is released to the public, it's going to blow Warppipe away.

  5. This is advertising by superpulpsicle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does /. not have any real video game news. What is all this constant marketing of gamecube and xbox games. It's like a conspiracy going on.

    1.) gamecube 3rd party slip many dollar bills into /. pocket
    2.) /. post article
    3.) !profit

  6. Posted by an AC. Need to read! by DAldredge · · Score: 2, Informative

    What follows was posted by an AC that is currently moded 0. It is reposted here for the benefit of those that block score 0 messages.

    REPOST OF AC MESSAGE FOLLOWS

    This runs as root. That means it can do ANYTHING to your system that it wants.

    Why is this an issue?

    Because these are the people that placed their sourcecode on sourceforge then closed the app, all the while using sourceforge resources to do it and kept the CVS open when they thought they had closed it. They have also lied about their linux version having a GUI. When people asked to help, they, rudely, said no because they were going to do it because that would have been the only way to keep the various platforms in shape. Big shock, they lied.

    Remember all that when you run their closed source apps on your Gentoo box with full Root privilages!