PROPELLER ARENA

[Charlton]

From what I have heard Propeller Arena uses the same network infrastructure as Outrigger, so most likely the servers were up / shared with this title. But by the time Propeller Arena leaked on the WWW, Outrigger was already long offline.

But not all hope is lost regarding online play, our talented fellow member petter3k might be able to resurrect this title somewhere down the road.

Actually that is not quite correct. They used the same bootstrap-server(kage/snap/KICS), but different gameservers.
AFAIK Propeller Arena also uses encryption, while Outtrigger does not.

im not a computer guru by any means but i have watched enough "24" episodes to know that encryption would make bringing it online a very hard task.

[Wombat]

Thanks for the clarification petter3k and my apologies for the incorrect information guys :O Hopefully the encryption is something that can be worked around with.

[Anthony817]

The reason it was cancelled is because it had a level called Tower City or something akin to that, in a city with skyscrapers. They didn't release it due to that. All they had to do was remove that level and make a completely new one for the game, but they just didn't since it was a very sensitive time. This was the same reason USA never got an official light gun from Sega because of the Columbine massacre. I don't agree with either of those reasons but I understand fully why they did it.

[petter3k]

From what I have heard Propeller Arena uses the same network infrastructure as Outrigger, so most likely the servers were up / shared with this title. But by the time Propeller Arena leaked on the WWW, Outrigger was already long offline.

But not all hope is lost regarding online play, our talented fellow member petter3k might be able to resurrect this title somewhere down the road.

Actually that is not quite correct. They used the same bootstrap-server(kage/snap/KICS), but different gameservers.
AFAIK Propeller Arena also uses encryption, while Outtrigger does not.

im not a computer guru by any means but i have watched enough "24" episodes to know that encryption would make bringing it online a very hard task.

Bringing it back is indeed alot harder with the encryption present. Hopefully, one day it will become online again