[Sektor]

Use GTA2 Game Hunter to find opponents. It's basically an IRC client with many features specific to GTA2. It doesn't add multiplayer to GTA2, it just uses the existing buggy GTA2 multiplayer that was really only intended for LAN games.

GTA2 Game Hunter is an application designed to simplify the process of finding, hosting and joining GTA2 multiplayer games. GTA2 Game Hunter adds a much needed chat lobby and server list. If you host a game using GTA2 Game Hunter then it detects when GTA2 network is ready for joiners and it adds your game to the server list. If your game is closed or you quit then it removes your game from the list.

GTA2 Game Hunter doesn’t solve all of GTA2’s multiplayer problems. If you don’t know anything about networks or routers then you are going to have a hard time getting it working. GTA2 requires many network ports to be open (even if you are only joining, you still need to open ports). If you try to play someone with a ping of over 100ms then GTA2 will run slowly for all players in the game.

You need to open these ports on your router/firewall:
47624 TCP/UDP
Port range 2300-2400 TCP/UDP.

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Multiplayer guides:
How_to_master_GTA2_multiplayer - 106KB - PDF

It gives advice on gameplay and contains tips, tactics and some information on undocumented features/glitches. If you have been playing GTA2 multiplayer for many years then you may already know most of it but it's worth a read anyway. You should have played multiplayer at least a few times and be familiar with GTA2 or it will be hard to understand.

You need Acrobat Read to view this:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/read...llversions.html

This post has been edited by Sektor on Friday, Dec 26 2008, 08:15

[Sillyhed2000]

I daresay I would be kissing your feet right now if I wasn't behind a firewall I can't get past

You make this? If so, great job

[Sektor]

GTA2 really doesn't like routers or firewalls. GTA2 Game Hunter detects routers but you still have to manually configure them yourself.

[me123]

Cool. Nobodys on most of the time though.

[UnholyGodly]

not enough ppl play this

my name on it is UG2

[Jolly Roger]

I had a go looking for a game, but nobody is ever on
I guess since its a old game people don't play it online anymore...

[Sektor]

Game Hunter is only two days old, so not everyone knows about it yet. I didn't expect there to be people always logged in, so that's why you can minimize to systray and it will notify you when someone joins.

[UnholyGodly]

QUOTE (S3KT0R @ Jan 26 2005, 18:51)

Game Hunter is only two days old, so not everyone knows about it yet. I didn't expect there to be people always logged in, so that's why you can minimize to systray and it will notify you when someone joins.

wouldnt it be 3 days old when u posted that?
ive played u sektor it was fun

[thebaer]

Well it's just March and I use this program now for a few days. I think it's a great program, thanks for this great program, it brings a lot of people together

It's much fun to play this old skool game, and with current broadband connections in my country it's well playable. Usually there a 5 to 6 ppl on the system, when you just take at least 30 minutes you find a game nearby you and you can play At spitshour sometimes at least 10 ppl. Not much anyway but I think it will grow some more.

Thanks S3KT0R

thebaer/Netherlands

This post has been edited by thebaer on Tuesday, Mar 1 2005, 23:49

[Guixd]

Damn, i cant play gta2 on cuz im behind a router. I dont know how to set up the router. I dont know which port gta2 use.

anyone help?

[Sektor]

You didn't look very hard http://gtamp.com/router.htm

[mibars]

Yes! This Game Hunter is exactly what I was looking for!

BTW - I'm making new multiplayer map for GTA2 and I don't know if it recognises map mismatch (eg I got my new map, other player has got... Tiny Town for it )

For map info: mibars@interia.pl

Ooops! Sorry for posting one month after last post

[Cerbera]

I just fired up v1.33 and went to see if anyone was online. After five four-player games I think we can safely say that GTA2 Multiplayer is very much alive and well, even though I kept winning all the games by loads. Plenty of people online using it:

larger image

Bit annoying that it doesn't have an INI file which stores settings, such as the position, size and state of the window. Also, minimising the window should minimise the window, not exit to the system tray. Adding that as a menu command inthe File menu would make more sense, imho.

Also, the bright white of the text areas doesn't seem to match with the darkness elsewhere. I would suggest just using the Windows standard interface. If you are coding this in VB then I can help you get it to use the neat Windows XP visual styles when run in that OS.


This topic is very much still alive, imho. If I was able to I would re-organise the pinned topics to reflect that this is the best way to play GTA2 online.

[Luke]

If anyone wants any proper statistics sorting out for GTA2 Game Hunter then let me know and it can be arranged. Either way, I idle in there on a regular basis, it's definitely active. GTA2's still a great game for multiplayer.

[mibars]

I see that you have taken this screen few seconds after my GTA2 crashed and make me unable to host (my game was still listed, when it wasn't hosted at this time).

There are still few bugs in it (one I has described above, and you can see it on screenshot), but I'm trying to make this Game Hunter popular in Poland Today half of players (4/8) were Polish

[Sektor]

If you closed game hunter, it would of been removed from the list but I'll have to find a better solution.

v1.39 has been released, it now shows a two letter country code next to each player's name in the list.

Smithers, statistics would be nice, I'll have to talk to you about that.

This post has been edited by S3KT0R on Sunday, Apr 17 2005, 07:59

[Sektor]

v1.421 released

www.gtamp.com

This post has been edited by Sektor on Monday, May 2 2005, 16:59

[Greeny341]

Would I be able to play on english servers from Wales?
I dont know how far this game hunter go's to..
Im in south wales by the way.

[Sektor]

UK players seem to get a good enough ping to most of europe. Just try it.

[Gasper]

Heh, funny how when people want a GTA Online, they don't play this game and wait for the GTA3,VC, and SA online versions!