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Community => City of Heroes => Topic started by: Cryono on May 04, 2014, 02:35:09 AM

Title: Gameranger?
Post by: Cryono on May 04, 2014, 02:35:09 AM
I saw on some forums that there's this app called Gameranger that "its primary function is as a tunneling software for titles developers have given up on. A P2P serverlist, in a way"

This sounds interesting, any way you could get this to start up CoH?

http://www.gameranger.com/news/ (http://www.gameranger.com/news/)

I'm supercurious.
Title: Re: Gameranger?
Post by: lamer on May 04, 2014, 04:06:52 AM
Unfortunately not. Gameranger is like a more advanced "master server" system for older games -- it doesn't run any of the servers, it just keeps a list of servers that people can connect to. If you host a lobby, your computer runs the server -- not Gameranger. It's apples to oranges, unfortunately.
Title: Re: Gameranger?
Post by: Cryono on May 04, 2014, 04:41:04 PM
What about Razor? Doesnt that keep UO alive?
Title: Re: Gameranger?
Post by: Nyx Nought Nothing on May 04, 2014, 05:25:59 PM
Quote from: Cryono on May 04, 2014, 04:41:04 PM
What about Razor? Doesnt that keep UO alive?
The point is that without access to the original server software or a reverse engineered equivalent it is not possible to have a CoH server to play on. No third party software can change that. (Unless it's the aforementioned reverse engineered server software.)
Title: Re: Gameranger?
Post by: BadWolf on May 05, 2014, 07:47:20 PM
At first, I thought maybe it was a software that took an extremely complex idea or proposal and distilled it down to a single word explaining why it wouldn't work.

Then I realized it was "Gameranger", not "JRanger".

I may be missing this game a bit too much.
Title: Re: Gameranger?
Post by: Pengy on May 06, 2014, 01:03:18 AM
I thought of Radiation Sentai Gammaranger, whatever that is.