[BLOG] Original Halo retains multiplayer thanks to fans
Posted: 27 May 2014, 02:13
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By now most of you will know about the closure of Gamespy and the problems it's going to cause to a great many games that used to have their multiplayer servers supported by the service. A lot of these games are many years old and have been left high-and-dry by their developers and published simply because of lack of resources or incompatible older software issues (even if most if not all of these games will hopefully eventually be supported by Gameranger).
However, one company has updated one of their original games which is over a decade old by now, thanks to help by community members in documenting bugs and constructing a patch for multiplayer. The game? Halo.
Bungie says that thanks to the efforts of a small number of players (named are community members Technut and kornman00, and btcc22), they've been able to construct a patch to take Halo multiplayer off of Gamespy and have it supported in its own official multiplayer option through a browser-server application that was built specially for the game. The update also includes bugfixes that relate to compatibility with newer software.
If you want to download the patches yourself, they're linked below. Happy gaming!
Halo PC 1.0.10
Halo CE 1.0.10
Halo PC Dedicated Server 1.0.10
Halo CE Dedicated Server 1.0.10
By now most of you will know about the closure of Gamespy and the problems it's going to cause to a great many games that used to have their multiplayer servers supported by the service. A lot of these games are many years old and have been left high-and-dry by their developers and published simply because of lack of resources or incompatible older software issues (even if most if not all of these games will hopefully eventually be supported by Gameranger).
However, one company has updated one of their original games which is over a decade old by now, thanks to help by community members in documenting bugs and constructing a patch for multiplayer. The game? Halo.
Bungie says that thanks to the efforts of a small number of players (named are community members Technut and kornman00, and btcc22), they've been able to construct a patch to take Halo multiplayer off of Gamespy and have it supported in its own official multiplayer option through a browser-server application that was built specially for the game. The update also includes bugfixes that relate to compatibility with newer software.
If you want to download the patches yourself, they're linked below. Happy gaming!
Halo PC 1.0.10
Halo CE 1.0.10
Halo PC Dedicated Server 1.0.10
Halo CE Dedicated Server 1.0.10