Play DC link cable games online - testing needed

[SEGA RPG FAN]

I've been experimenting with tunneling the Dreamcast link cable games for online play and have a working method. Here are the preliminary results:

Aero Dancing I - successful online match
Aero Dancing F - successful online match
F355 - successful online match (real head to head racing!)
Virtual On - unable to match online. Matching works in LAN. Possibly very latency/jitter sensitive.
Hell Gate Beta - successful online match (this game is a hot mess though)
Sega Tetris - unable to match online or in LAN (haven't been able to figure out the serial port settings)

The games that worked, seemed to work well without lag or slowdown. This could use some further testing and refining.

I am using a USB coder's cable https://dreamcast.wiki/Coder%27s_cable and a custom python script https://github.com/eaudunord/Netlink/re ... /v4.4-beta

The coder's cable is connected from the Dreamcast to the PC and the script handles interfacing with the cable and sending data back and forth online. There are not modifications to the Dreamcast or patching of games, this is all stock.

The script is a pretty barebones affair that walks you through selecting your com port, the game you want to play and the IP address of the person you want to connect to. If you have a coder's cable and are interested in testing this out, let me know and we can try linking up.

[mistamontiel]

I've been dying to see Hell Gate linked! Pardon no coder's cable on me

[SEGA RPG FAN]

Hell Gate link cable seems bugged. I only tried deathmatch, but only one player's life would ever go down. The other was invincible. Maybe someone who's tried it with a real link cable can verify.

[Jenkins]

A Coders Cable is also in my collection!

[Sonic1994DC]

I would love to play Virtual On online. This might be a silly question to ask but would BBA for online play be possible?

[SEGA RPG FAN]

I would love to play Virtual On online. This might be a silly question to ask but would BBA for online play be possible?

No modem, no BBA. This is not a revival of any online mode. It's simply capturing and sending serial port data from one point to another over the internet.

[Sonic1994DC]

I would love to play Virtual On online. This might be a silly question to ask but would BBA for online play be possible?

No modem, no BBA. This is not a revival of any online mode. It's simply capturing and sending serial port data from one point to another over the internet.

Thanks for the clear up. Still very cool, I'm excited to hear about this

[peanut_unlimited]

Love this idea, and a coders cable isn't that difficult to whip up. I'll have to give it a suss

[NeoSnk]

I have the cable, and I’d love to test it.
Funny enough, I’ve been hoping for something like this for a long time.

viewtopic.php?t=10839&start=10

[masis08]

I've been experimenting with tunneling the Dreamcast link cable games for online play and have a working method. Here are the preliminary results:

Aero Dancing I - successful online match
Aero Dancing F - successful online match
F355 - successful online match (real head to head racing!)
Virtual On - unable to match online. Matching works in LAN. Possibly very latency/jitter sensitive.
Hell Gate Beta - successful online match (this game is a hot mess though)
Sega Tetris - unable to match online or in LAN (haven't been able to figure out the serial port settings)

The games that worked, seemed to work well without lag or slowdown. This could use some further testing and refining.

I am using a USB coder's cable https://dreamcast.wiki/Coder%27s_cable and a custom python script https://github.com/eaudunord/Netlink/re ... /v4.4-beta

The coder's cable is connected from the Dreamcast to the PC and the script handles interfacing with the cable and sending data back and forth online. There are not modifications to the Dreamcast or patching of games, this is all stock.

The script is a pretty barebones affair that walks you through selecting your com port, the game you want to play and the IP address of the person you want to connect to. If you have a coder's cable and are interested in testing this out, let me know and we can try linking up.

Could this work from flycast to DC as well?