actual online play

[-=PrecisionGT3=-]

does anyone know if sony is comming out with a modem to actually play GT3 online like a PC game???? :cheeburga

 

[ALPHA]

I don't think so because what part in GT3 says 'Online Play'

 

[DessViperV-10]

cant do it,its needs to be programmed into the game to be able to actually play online...

but you can spread iLink cables around the globe

 

[-=PrecisionGT3=-]

in arcade mode

go to i.link

and there are two options.........broadcast and complete

 

[LoudMusic]

Originally posted by -=PrecisionGT3=-
in arcade mode

go to i.link

and there are two options.........broadcast and complete

A) i.Link is a specific cable. Have you noticed that little connector on the front of the PS2 in the little blue painted box? That's an i.Link connector. It's like firewire, but it has its own connector and protocal.

B) I think it's Broadcast and Compete. There is an option to host a game, join a game, or just watch a game.

i.Link is pretty cool, but it's a lot of trouble to get two TVs in the same room and all the other hardware going at the same time. It really fills a room for some simple gaming.

~LoudMusic

 

[LoudMusic]

Oh, and GT3 doesn't do any kind of online play. They're saving that for GT4, or GTN (Network). Just one more thing to get your money away from you (:

~LoudMusic

 

[-=PrecisionGT3=-]

how do you know about GT4?

 

[LoudMusic]

Well now, that's interesting.

http://forums.gtplanet.net/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=55

That forum is full of all the goodies. You might have to dig a little for answer though. There are tons of links to articles with interviews with game designers and CEOs of Polyphony Digital (GT series developers) and Sony (owner of Polyphony Digital). We (members of GTPlanet) have spent some time discussing it as well.

~LoudMusic

 

[Xtreme]

One of the first three or four threads are about GT4 and information about it. U should go and check 'em out.

 

[rhnelson]

Originally posted by LoudMusic


A) i.Link is a specific cable. Have you noticed that little connector on the front of the PS2 in the little blue painted box? That's an i.Link connector. It's like firewire, but it has its own connector and protocal.

B) I think it's Broadcast and Compete. There is an option to host a game, join a game, or just watch a game.

i.Link is pretty cool, but it's a lot of trouble to get two TVs in the same room and all the other hardware going at the same time. It really fills a room for some simple gaming.

~LoudMusic

Seems to me that a bright software developer could write a program for a PC that would make a PS2 think it was talking to another PS2 over an i-link when it was actually talking to another PS2 through the internet and 2 PCs. A person might make a bundle of money that way.

Rick

 

[ethanol]

Originally posted by rhnelson


Seems to me that a bright software developer could write a program for a PC that would make a PS2 think it was talking to another PS2 over an i-link when it was actually talking to another PS2 through the internet and 2 PCs. A person might make a bundle of money that way.

Rick

Rick,

Not a bad idea. <sigh> I wish I was bright. I'd like a bundle of money.

 

[-=PrecisionGT3=-]

how do i get rid of threads??!?!!? lol

 

[LoudMusic]

Originally posted by rhnelson


Seems to me that a bright software developer could write a program for a PC that would make a PS2 think it was talking to another PS2 over an i-link when it was actually talking to another PS2 through the internet and 2 PCs. A person might make a bundle of money that way.

Rick

As far as I know, it's already been done. Someone created an "i.Link bridge" via two computers. You plug your PS2's i.Link port into a IEEE 1394 (firewire, iLink ...) on a computer, then send all that traffic out the network card across the Internet to a computer doing the same thing on the other end. No big deal really.

Wish I could find some stuff on the `Net to show you - but I happen to be lazy right now.

~LoudMusic

 

[rhnelson]

Originally posted by -=PrecisionGT3=-
how do i get rid of threads??!?!!? lol

Well...It's easiest to just pull them off with your fingers, but there's always the danger of something unravelling. My mother always told me to cut them with scissors :-)

Rick