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Posted March 07, 2019
Is there a way to setup a direct IP connection to play with your friends? The advertising mentions it, however I could not find any options to do so within the game.
Post edited March 07, 2019 by ClassicMacOS
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Posted March 07, 2019
From what the GOG staff has said in other threads, it sounds like the advertisements were unintentionally misleading. They didn't add TCP/IP support, but the game does have LAN support. It seems to me that there was a miscommunication between the devs and the social media/advertising people; perhaps it was just a simple mixup, perhaps something got lost in translation.
Posted March 07, 2019
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YaBoiCreepachu: From what the GOG staff has said in other threads, it sounds like the advertisements were unintentionally misleading. They didn't add TCP/IP support, but the game does have LAN support. It seems to me that there was a miscommunication between the devs and the social media/advertising people; perhaps it was just a simple mixup, perhaps something got lost in translation.
Ahh, I see. Thank you for clarifying. That's a shame though, I wanted to host games on my PC for my friends to connect to.
Posted March 07, 2019
The only way to play D1 over the internet is over Battle.net or through Virtual LAN setups, like Hamachi, Tunngle, GameRanger and similar 3rd party applications.

Alternatively, the mod named Tchernobog has direct IP connection support, but that's a complete overhaul of the game.
Posted March 07, 2019
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Realpsojed: The only way to play D1 over the internet is over Battle.net or through Virtual LAN setups, like Hamachi, Tunngle, GameRanger and similar 3rd party applications.

Alternatively, the mod named Tchernobog has direct IP connection support, but that's a complete overhaul of the game.
I will look into one of those Virtual LAN setups. Thank you for the information.
Update: I installed Hamachi and was easily able to play with my friends over the internet. Thank you again for your suggestion!
Post edited March 09, 2019 by ClassicMacOS
Posted March 09, 2019
DevilutionX is a source port with TCP and UDP network implementation (including network encryption).
Posted March 11, 2019
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ClassicMacOS: Is there a way to setup a direct IP connection to play with your friends?
If you replace the file named Standard.SNP with a copy taken from original Starcraft it will add the UDP option to Diablo's multiplayer menu.
Post edited March 11, 2019 by squid_80
Posted March 11, 2019
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ClassicMacOS: Is there a way to setup a direct IP connection to play with your friends?
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squid_80: If you replace the file named Standard.SNP with a copy taken from original Starcraft it will add the UDP option to Diablo's multiplayer menu.
Apparently it no longer works with GOG version of Diablo 1.

I followed your advice and I copied the file "standard.snp" from StarCraft 1 dir to Diablo\dx and no extra UDP option appears in the game. Have you tested it yourself? If it works for you perhaps you could share the relevant file (standard.snp) with us somewhere.

Not that I need it, as I was able to play the game with other people using Hamachi + IPX wrapper option, but straight UDP within vanilla Diablo is something that got my attention.
Post edited March 11, 2019 by AvidOldschoolGamer
Posted March 11, 2019
Tunngle Service shut down on 30th April 2018
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Realpsojed: The only way to play D1 over the internet is over Battle.net or through Virtual LAN setups, like Hamachi, Tunngle, GameRanger and similar 3rd party applications.

Alternatively, the mod named Tchernobog has direct IP connection support, but that's a complete overhaul of the game.
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ClassicMacOS: I will look into one of those Virtual LAN setups. Thank you for the information.
Update: I installed Hamachi and was easily able to play with my friends over the internet. Thank you again for your suggestion!
Hit me up when you want to play or make a discord diablo IP group
Post edited March 11, 2019 by FloowSnaake
Posted March 11, 2019
Many modern routers support setting up a VPN. I have a Netgear AC1750, was able to turn the VPN option on and then my friends just needed to install OpenVPN and follow the directions that the router provided and we were able to play in IPX mode without any problems.
Posted March 12, 2019
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AvidOldschoolGamer: Have you tested it yourself? If it works for you perhaps you could share the relevant file (standard.snp) with us somewhere.
I have, it still works. Maybe your starcraft wasn't patched? UDP was added in an update iirc.
Note that you still need a way to make both PCs think they're on the same LAN (VPN or other bridging software - it's just to locate the games, actual play works over WAN) so if you've already got it working there's probably no point going to the effort.
Posted March 14, 2019
Well old classic versions of old games on old computers have modem\serial direct conneton for 2 only players. Currently in Diablo you can play only with IPX wrapper or Bnet both for 4 pl.

(Always_) Check text and executable (bat) files in game folder (at least in offline gog downloader version). Some of them apply to online functionality.

P.S. Never install any IPX wrappers on one of my Win7 pc, but have IPX option in old games (incl. Wc2 Bnet Edition) on that pc.
Post edited March 14, 2019 by QWEEDDYZ
Posted March 15, 2019
Me and some friends played over Hamachi with no additional software. So either it wrapper is no longer needed or it is integrated, even though the option says IPX.

Edit: opened the folder and there it is... works great with Hamachi, which is weird because a few years ago when we tried it we couldn't get it to work on a real LAN.
Post edited March 15, 2019 by DieKatzchen
Posted March 17, 2019
DevilutionX is now available for Windows, Mac and Linux:
https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX/releases
Post edited March 20, 2019 by Anders_Jenbo
Posted March 18, 2019
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DieKatzchen: Me and some friends played over Hamachi with no additional software. So either it wrapper is no longer needed or it is integrated, even though the option says IPX.

Edit: opened the folder and there it is... works great with Hamachi, which is weird because a few years ago when we tried it we couldn't get it to work on a real LAN.
No need for hamachi with ipxwrapper...
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