incentive/psopeeps-newserv
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Actions Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

update GC connection instructions in readme

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
Martin Michelsen
2024-05-23 21:52:17 -07:00
parent 8421ab16d5
commit ba752eb7dc
1 changed files with 6 additions and 2 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files
README.md
+6 -2
View File
@@ -183,9 +183,13 @@ The version of PSO PC I have has the server addresses starting at offset 0x29CB3
### PSO GC on a real GameCube
You can make PSO connect to newserv by setting its default gateway and DNS server addresses in network settings to newserv's address. newserv's DNS server must be running on port 53 and must be accessible to the GameCube.
You can make PSO connect to newserv by setting the default gateway and DNS server addresses in the game's network settings to newserv's address. newserv's DNS server must be running on port 53 and must be accessible to the GameCube. If you're not playing PSO Plus or Episode III, this should be all you need to do, assuming you already set LocalAddress in config.json to your PC's private IP address.
If you have PSO Plus or Episode III, it won't want to connect to a server on the same local network as the GameCube itself, as determined by the GameCube's IP address and subnet mask. In the old days, one way to get around this was to create a fake network adapter on the server (or use an existing real one) that has an IP address on a different subnet, tell the GameCube that the server is the default gateway (as above), and have the server reply to the DNS request with its non-local IP address. To do this with newserv, just set LocalAddress in the config file to a different interface. For example, if the GameCube is on the 192.168.0.x network and your other adapter has address 10.0.1.6, set newserv's LocalAddress to 10.0.1.6 and set PSO's DNS server and default gateway addresses to the server's 192.168.0.x address. This may not work on modern systems or on non-Windows machines - I haven't tested it in many years.
If you have PSO Plus or Episode III, it won't want to connect to a server on the same local network as the GameCube itself, as determined by the GameCube's IP address and subnet mask. There are a couple of ways to get around this.
Sodaboy described a fairly easy method, which is to forward the PSO and DNS ports in your router's configuration to your PC's private IP address (the PSO ports are in config.json, and are all TCP; the DNS port is 53 and is UDP). Then, set LocalAddress and ExternalAddress in config.json to your external IP address (from e.g. whatismyip.com). Most routers will let you connect to your public IP address even from within the local network, but the GameCube will think it's connecting to a different network, so it won't reject the connection. If you're concerned about security and don't want your server to be publicly accessible, you can use Windows Firewall or UFW on Linux block incoming connections on the ports you opened, except for connections from the IP addresses you specify.
Another method is to use two network interfaces on the same PC, and tell the GameCube to connect to the one that appears to be on a different network. For example, if your GameCube is on the 10.0.0.x subnet and your PC's address is 10.0.0.5, you can create a fake network adapter on your PC (or use an existing real one) that has an IP address on a different subnet than the GameCube, such as 192.168.0.8. Then, in PSO's network config, set the default gateway and DNS server addresses to 192.168.0.8, and set LocalAddress in config.json to 192.168.0.8, and PSO should connect. This is what I did back in the old days when I primarily developed software on Windows, but I haven't tried it in many years.
### PSO GC on a Wii or Wii U