bczretribution: After playing a bit by myself with the game running fine I decided to play against a friend. I found in another thread on this forum that to do that we needed to use gameranger. Game ranger runs fine and we can get a game running no problem. however game ranger requires you point it at an .exe, not a shortcut. so this means that i have to play upside down. unless anyone has been able to figure out another way to solve this. alternatively if anyone can tell me the necessary ports the game uses to play I might be able to host a game without game ranger which would also solve the problem.
I'm not sure if this will work, but you may give it a try:
Please download the
file here and put it in the game folder (where REBEXE.EXE is).
Try to launch it - if the game starts correctly, you can point Gameranger to it.
I didn't test it though. If it won't work I'll try to think of something else on Monday ;)