by pnoid » Tue Jan 21, 2014 2:25 pm
Hi all, I have some info about head to head playing, network and maybe direct play over the internet.
I read Ante and Lob tried to play head to head over the internet without success.
I tried it about 13/15 years ago, I tried everything to get network running, many hours spend and no success.
But, in my despair, I had one idea not tried yet, which I did, and finally success.
I wrote it down in the old forum, no idea if this forum still exist.
You have to use the old "Brusa.exe".
The new one, version 1.18 doesn't work. the old one does work, I think the old one is version 1.15.
I played after this discovery numerous games with my buddy Psycho at my home, on two pc's.
Very funny to hear that one has lost and one has won the same time, we sat next to each others, when I shot a ball in a car on my pc, I could see the effect it had on Psycho's pc.
But I can't remember if we played over the internet without using the lobby.
Maybe it works, network is no problem at all.
Its very simple, no need for a complete reinstall, even if you updated your game with the new Brusa.exe 1.18
If you updated the game with Brusa.exe 1.18, just rename it, for instance rename it to "Brusa.new"
Then start up your game, it will ask you to reinstall the game, click yes.
The only thing reinstalled is Brusa.exe, the original one, so it takes a second.
All the rest, including records and your settings are untouched.
Now you can play head to head against an opponent without the need for the lobby.
As said, not sure if this works for direct play over the internet, but for network it works, no problems.
After head to head gaming, if you want to play normal games with the updated Brusa.exe.
Rename Brusa.exe to Brusa.old
and Brusa.new to Brusa.exe.
Sounds complicated, its not, only in begin, I used two batch files so I only had to click a batch file for renaming purposes,
One batch file for head to head and another for normal game play with the updated game.
After this all has be done no reinstall will be needed as long both files are in the same program map.
For instance, If wanting to play head to head:
Rename Brusa.exe to Brusa.new.
Rename Brusa.old to Brusa.exe.
or
If wanting to play a normal game:
Rename Brusa.exe to Brusa.old.
Rename Brusa.new to Brusa.exe.
I can't make it much more confusing