"I made a website to revive dead multiplayer games (GameDate)" by batty

https://www.gamedate.org/

I know I can Google it, but uhhhhh I’m lazy and wanna help drive Lemmy engagement:

Wasn’t there a multiplayer Resident Evil game wherein you could get bit and become a zombie? But like… it was ahead of its time kinda because you needed 4(?)+ PlayStations on a LAN to play it?

I remember it looked fun, and iirc reviews said it was fun, but they gave it low reviews ‘cause of the hardware hurdle.

Anyways… did anyone ever mod that into a playable, non-LAN experience one can enjoy from their PCs? If so… I’d totally put up a game date on here for that.

I might go search for my own answer and edit it into this if my phone doesn’t die.

Edit: looks like there is a fan-made pc port of it, but getting it setup looks like a bit of a project. hmmmmm

This is cool, maybe I can find a crew for Quake 3 instagib freeze tag with grapple hook enabled.

As an aside…If I wanted to host an event like this specifically for fediverse, where should one post it?

Let’s say I pre-pack a portable archive (so Linux users can easily just add the exe to Faugus/Lutris whatever too) for Halo Custom Edition with a bunch of maps and throw a dedi server up for a week as an example.

So not the .world instance which lied about allowing piracy after announcing they would IIRC.

Damn, this looks good! This is a huge coincidence: just a few days ago, I was hoping that something like this existed when another thread reminded me of Unreal 2’s long-dead multiplayer mode.

This is awesome. Love the UI.

A cool bonus with something like this is finding games you never knew about. I already found a few scrolling through the lobbies.

Only downside is with no sign up requirement you’re gonna get a lot of racist basement troll comments, which I’ve already seen a few. But that’s the trade off for not having a sign in requirement, which I prefer for something like this.

Anyone gotten any good games out of this?

Neat, let’s see if somebody wants to play Jump Ultimate Stars 🤣

This is neat!

Pass. It’s 4chan-/Xbox-Live-Generation Central. I do like the site design though. So thumbs up on that! It looks like the old Steam UI.]

Edit: I’m old I’ll see myself to the glue-factory.

Aww man, I was hoping to find a session of FFXI. Haven’t played that in ages.

Please bring back Wolfenstein ET

Holy smokes! Have you tried enabling “Blizzard” mode in “Black” theme, in the settings? ❄✨
Ineffably… M-M-M-Marvelous… lous… lous… lous…
No words…

get in we are going HOME blizzbulls only

>no ffxiv

>no runescape

only based redpilled 2016 maga energy

/w me for guild invite

Fighting for Hitler

I would be so happy with red alert 2 and 3.

You’re doing God’s work. Or the work I assume he’d want done if he was real…

Niezteche was right, we should not have killed God.

I’m getting my dreamcast online in the next couple weeks! So exciting to be back on. Its been 20 years.

Hey see if you can drag Everquest Next out of the slaughterhouse.

Does anybody remember loadout?

dead games

Factorio logo

crying inside intensifies

I love this, I will check this out.

Unrelated but I like that GunZ The Duel is not only old enough to drink in the US, but that the private servers have outlived both the original game, it disappointing sequel, and countless AAA productions over the years. Whole genres have come and gone, with billions spent chasing whatever the new hotness is, while some privately-run upcycled office workstations have faithfully served thousands of hardcore gamers for decades.

Some games just don’t die.

Oh, neat! Lemme check it ou-

Every time I die I drink a cup of tequila, and every 10 minutes I drink another

Well that seems irresponsible.

Checks to see if Tribes is listed

Yup. My work here is done.

I’m sharing this on c/raidstream as it’s extremely relevant there. Thank you so much!

I like that this looks like OG Steam.

Email, Discord, Google, Apple dependence

Batty forgot the #1 event reminder of the net.
Why no Jabber is beyond me.

Just commenting so I can find this video when I get home from work.

Sounds interesting.

Given that this is designed to be anonymous and indexable by search engines, how do you envision managing spam or malicious postings without requiring accounts or extensive moderation?