MechWarrior 2: Resource Forum

Thanks! That's an undertaking I haven't the resources to try this week, but when I get the chance, I'll try it and post the results.

let me know how your testing goes.
i reccomended hamachi for a few reasons. it's pretty unobtrusive once installed, it doesn't have a monthly fee, and it has a ...

You want to look at this page viewtopic.php?f=9&t=281
and see if your CD matches up with any of the CD images.

I think you will still need to apply the v1.1 windows patch for your Direct3D version of mw2 mercs.

I chose a perfect time to start trying to play NetMech with relatives :P

I don't suppose there is any decent way of playing Netmech over LAN, is there?

i thought of a way, but it requires using a VPN network setup like hamachi & running a standalone DOSBOx instance to host a IPX server
luckily ...

Cool.
I wonder how MMPD setup the IPX relay in the first place.
Right now I'm thinking dosbox running an IPX server session? Or possibly something to do with DNS records and CNAMEs.

Greetings,

the Mech2.org hosted IPX server relay appears to be down.
IPX server relay has been offline since 9-29-2014, when the mech2.org website went offline for a few hours

screenshot of IPXNEXT CONNECT failure attached.
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Z:\>IPXNET CONNECT mech2.org 10001
IPX Tunneling utility for DosBox ...

Howdy.
I finally registered on mech2.org after 18 months of using it as a resource for all things mechwarrior 2 related.
Last weeks short website outage got me worried enough to finally register here :D .
The mechwarrior 2 series is pretty fantastic and I've got lots of fond memories playing MW2 ...