XLink Kai Beta For GC, Xbox Tunneling Launched

Posted by simoniker on Friday January 2, 2004 @06:31PM from the double-the-trouble dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the Xbox-Scene messageboards, where a public Beta 0.03 has been announced for the Windows-based XLink Kai tunneling software, compatible with both GameCube and Xbox. XLink Messenger was previously one of the more popular Xbox apps of this kind, since it "tunnels your system link traffic between people, creating an Xbox Live style environment for free", and XLink Kai is a "rewrite... from the ground up" that also supports Nintendo GameCube in a similar way to the previously mentioned Warp Pipe GC tunneling software, which also "enables you to play LAN-supported GameCube games over the Internet for free with other GameCube gamers."

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Re:How, exactly? by unclethursday · 2004-01-02 22:16 · Score: 2, Insightful

I think what he means is that if it allows Xbox Live games to be played, as if they were on Live but not on Live, Microsoft might have something to say about it. It may not be illegal, but Microsoft might be able to pull up contractual issues or something against them if they so desired (IE publishers agree to use Live, and Live only for their Xbox online games, or something, and by offering tunnels for Live games, they would force Microsoft's hand in order for Microsoft to continue to uphold its end of the contract; or other such).
I don't know, though. I use Live, myself, not tunneling software, since the tunnels were genrally too laggy when I tried them.