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"Gamespy - Tell me how it's done."

Yep, Xbox live does look pretty neat with it's communications and organisation, but it's out of the question in this case because:

a) My friend hasn't ordered a kit and doesn't want to right now
b) We want to play Halo.


So tell me, how to we play through Gamespy?

My friend has an Xbox with Halo (other games too but they don't matter for the minute), four controllers and a broadband connection.
I'm guessing that I need an ethernet cable and that they need some sort of network card (they got their PC within the last 2 years so it might've been standard when they bought it).

Anything else?

How do we log into Gamespy?

Somebody here tried 2 and it worked (Silent I think), but no one has tried 4 players yet.

Strafex wrote:
> Talking of Xbox live, does anyone know how Unreal Championship handles
> 4 player splitscreen across live?


nope think it's 1 player per x box once using live :(

I wonder if they will make Halo II anywhere near as good as the original.

I wonder...

On a brighter note, people in the Xbconnect forums say that 128Kb per box is fine.

4 player splitscreen it will be. :-)

Won't be perfect, but will be close enough until Halo 2 rolls into town (and seeing as that's being designed for Xbox live, they'd BETTER do it properly.)

Now tell me about this crossover cable...

Talking of Xbox live, does anyone know how Unreal Championship handles 4 player splitscreen across live?

My friend won't get Xbox live for the moment.
Halo through Xb connect was just a quick fix really.

If you can only have up to four players (including splitscreen) then there's probably no point.



Having said that, people in the forums at xbconnect are saying that 128kb per box is alright, so splitscreen shouldn't be a problem...

Dont bother with either Gamespy or XBconnect. They are so laggy. I had just got Broadband in June last year and got a network card to play Halo online. I think I tried about 2 or 3 games and stopped because it was so bad. Its was hard to get a game going and once it started it was laggy. Just get XBox Live, I know you cant play Halo on it, but its a billion times better than Gamespy or XBconnect.

I'll have to check what my friend has in terms of connectionm.

We'll probably only be going 3 player, but on Gamespy, it was 128Kb per playing including online players, or wasn't it?

Having said that, there's nothing to stop you trying 4 players on one box and seeing if it works anyway.

That figure might have been quoted in order to keep them safe from people complaining about lag.

I think it's the same for xbconnect. You also need 128kbs upload per player for that.