PS2 Online Gaming

I might be able to play tommorow, do you have Skype?

Not suprised, they were already disappearing from most stores anyway.

My theory is that the contracts are running out for many of the games, and they are not renewing support for them. The Activision one makes sense, since many of their PC based GameSpy games went down too, while EA and Lucasarts have a bunch of GameSpy hosted games on the PC. EA has the C&C games and...

Well CoDs on PS3, which are probably demonware based, went down a few days ago, and Sony said the servers were down. They also had connection errors as well. Maybe they pulled 3 off while they were at it.

Do they work over OpenSpy?

You gotta use the DNS to play DH.

SWBF2 and BF2MC still have plenty of players. SOCOM II also has some on Kai from what I see in the lobbies (and is the ONLY kai ps2 game with people I've seen), though I haven't tried playing, and there are gameplay vids of that on Kai. CoD1/2 had players but the DNAS trick drove em away afaik. Ther...

How do I test it? I can test SWBF2, Midnight Club 3, both Gamespy CoDs, and BF2MC.

PAULRAIMI wrote:very sad indeed,
i have been playing star wars battlefront 2 loads recently, (still works) will be destroyed if the server goes off!
how can they justify this without any warning?

It's still on Kai, I tested it on Kai with a friend who had a DVD-R and it works well, plus there's no patch.

Can you do SWBF2 next since GameSpy seems to be on a warpath? Sure, Ill have to buy a copy of the game first. Good thing PS2 games are cheap nowadays... Basically packet logging is just tracing the incoming and outcoming data between the PS2 and the server. By doing this it will help a lot if you w...