Planet Ring is back online - Earthcall Project

Its a server emulation server for Planet Ring. Its not just this, more things are planned and It was coded using SDL, SDLNet and SQLite. Currently almost all features supported.
For those where dont know about Planet Ring well:

Planet Ring is an online Dreamcast game which features 4 multiplayer minigames, a messenger and a simple HTML like website system (TEML) to show the user pages about anything the server admin could imagine, including images. This was the first console game that had multiplayer gaming while voice chatting people all over the world. It was given away by the Official Dreamcast Magazine number 15 in the UK, it was also sold in stores in Europe. Some other countries like Spain got it for free with the microphone upon getting a certain ISP services.
Check this project: https://code.google.com/p/earthcall-project/

Source: www.dreamcast-talk.com

(Sorry for background colour, I could not fix it.)

 

nice, i had a fun time playing this back then, got it for free in a Dreamcast magazine in germany!
need to check it out !

 

We need also to host server.

 

Going to re buy a broadband adaptor to play this! ;-)

 

Nice as my mum would not let my dc go online when i first had a dc i missed out on some cool online games.

 

Planet Ring is not compatible with the Broadband Adapter, unfortunately. You'll need to use a modem to connect.

 

That was unexpected! I'll gonna love to try!

 

Too bad I can't use my BBA yet.

 

Yet!? As someone here has already mentioned, PR does not support the BBA.

 

A big thank you to those involved in this and other online games for Dreamcast!! Keep em coming!! (..outtrigger, anyone?)

 

I read on DC talk that bba support is in the works.

 

This is fantastic news. Thank you to all involved for bringing another DC game back online.

 

Was this someone actually working on it or just someone speculating? Unfortunately, it would be damn near impossible to do this unless someone has leaked source code to Planet Ring.

 

omg yes! i can finally try this game

 

PR is an EUROPEAN game, so Broadband Adapter hasn't released there.

Why just don't pester your mum to allow you? Useful tool for childrens.

Maybe possible there would be a patch to PR to work on BbA

 

PAL games still supported the BBA, though (e.g. PSO at least did).

The issue really is that Planet Ring was compiled without BBA support as it was likely based off an SDK version without BBA libraries as the BBA didn't exist yet.

I had similar difficulty with my parents and getting internet access those days. I drove them insane on a consistent basis about it. At one point, they had left the house for the day and I printed out hundreds of pages just saying "we must get internet access" or something like that, and I taped them all over the walls and covered the entire house in the fucking things. Bit crazy, I know.

Very unlikely, as it would require significant amounts of changes to the code for which we have no source. A larger challenge than making this server to begin with.

 

For an easy fix, the game should be coded in a highly modular architecture and cross-compatible BBA/modem libraries... Kinda unlikely IMO.