Compilation of supported/unsupported games for DOSBox Encapsulation

[aabluedragon]

I've been working on integration of IPXWrapper into NukemNet, and have done some testing on which games work with IPXWrapper's DOSBox Encapsulation, and which games do not.
Those that do work have been added support in NukemNet (update not released yet).

So here it is:

Game that work

1. GTA (and London 1969, London 1961)
2. GTA 2
3. Carmageddon 95
4. Carmageddon 2
5. Total Annihlation
6. Command & Conquer: Red Alert
7. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
8. Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge
9. Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun (and Firestorm)
10. Dune 2000
11. Take No Prisoners
12. Get Medieval
13. MageSlayer
14. Theme Hospital
15. Warcraft II Battle.net Edition
16. Diablo
17. Atomic Bomberman
18. Delta Force 2
19. Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Complete
20. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
21. Twisted Metal 2
22. War Wind
23. War Wind II: Human Onslaught
24. Hardwar
25. Darkstone
26. Heroes of Might and Magic 2: Gold
27. FutureCop: LAPD
28. Age of Empires
29. Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
30. Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
31. Star Wars Episode I: Racer
32. Moto Racer 2
33. Machines: Wired for War
34. Rival Realms
35. Worms 2 (CD Version and W2-Plus)
36. Starcraft (Shareware, Full, and Brood War).
37. Worms World Party (not Remastered)
38. Dungeon Keeper 2
39. Mortal Kombat Trilogy
40. Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga (and Clone Campaigns).
41. Forsaken (Not Remastered, tested after applying the 1.01 and Legacy patches).
42. Constructor: Street Wars (aka Mob Rule, not GOG/Steam versions).
43. Dark Colony
44. Aliens Versus Predator
45. Battleship: The Classic Naval Warfare Game
46. Lords of Magic: Special Edition
47. HyperBlade
48. Star Trek: Away Team (Hangs for a bit in the game UI, but then it connects).

Games that do not work

1. Age of Empires: Rise of Rome: game hangs on join, then shows error popup, see Age of Empires 1: Rise of Rome Connection problem. #9
2. Moto Racer: does not list the game room.
3. Twisted Metal: says "Error Number 1", "Network mode is not available".
4. FIFA: Road to World Cup 98: nothing appears in the game room list.
5. LaserArena: when started, the game either does not boot, or getting an error upon startup "Winsock IPX bind failed".
6. Need For Speed III - Hot Pursuit: game room list empty.
7. Rising Lands: after setting up the room, client joins, and launching in-game, I get only black squares and white squares, might not be related to IPXWrapper, but on single player it works fine.
8. Outlive: on game boot, getting an error popup about error in input.
9. Diablo: Hellfire
10. Worms World Party Remastered: room does not appear in the room list, but I can see the IPX connection in the DOSBox logs (IPXSERVER: Connect from ip_here)
11. Command & Conquer C&C95 (nothing happens when clicking the "Network" option under "Multiplayer Game")
12. Command & Conquer: Generals - room does not appear in the room list, but I can see the IPX connection in the DOSBox logs (IPXSERVER: Connect from ip_here)
13. Outlaws (tried the GOG version, it does show an option for IPX, but hangs in the menu).
14. Necrodome (Registered and Shareware) - Nothing happens when clicking the "Network" button in the menu.
15. Interstate '76 - probably due to usage of ANET.
16. Road Rash - The client sees the room in the list, but when trying to join, it hangs.
17. Necrodome
18. Postal
19. Diablo (Spawned v1.09): in the game menu, after selecting IPX, says "Unable to initialize selected connection method.".

[FunkyFr3sh]

Looks like an interesting project. How does it exactly work? Will you choose a server in your custom chat lobby and it then writes your relay server into ipxwrapper.ini and start the game? Or do you use a custom ipxwrapper build or some other method?

I'm interested in a bunch of these windows games you listed, can you ping me when that update is out?

[solemnwarning]

@aabluedragon just to confirm, did the games work for you when not using the DOSBox encapsulation option?

[aabluedragon]

@FunkyFr3sh the way it works is quite simplistic really, participants start/join a game room, and once it's started, NN spawns IPXBox (for the host) listening on the chosen game port.
Then it copies the ipxwrapper dlls into the game dir, and sets the right reg edits for IPXWrapper, including the host ip and port.

I actually made a registry editor lib for this reason (among others), because I had the requirement of getting it to work over wine as well, and fallback to UAC elevation when adding the IPX entry to the registry on windows.
https://github.com/aabluedragon/regeditor

It also adds a dll override wsock32=n,b in a temp env var for wine, specific to ipxwrapper.
On wine, if directplay is missing, it prompts the user to run winetricks directplay, with an approval, it runs the command, showing the output.

can you ping me when that update is out?

Sure, I'll reply here once the update is out.

[aabluedragon]

@solemnwarning I only tested out the dosbox encapsulation method of ipxwrapper, as NukemNet is for both online and LAN (and mixed) sessions.

[aabluedragon]

A test release is now available.
(Links to test build removed in favor of public release)

[aabluedragon]

Public release is now available on nukemnet.com