games @hexbear.net TheronGuard [he/him] @hexbear.net 7 mo. ago

Would it be possible to wrangle enough Hexbears together to get some Outbreak games going?

I've been playing Outbreak, the semi-forgotten online PS2 co-op Resident Evil spinoff with friends recently and I've had a great time, but it'd be fun to play the games with others as well, especially now that I have some idea of what I'm supposed to be doing.

They're free, have low requirements (pretty much any semi-decent computer made in the last decade should run PCSX2 just fine) and you won't need to worry about exposing your Steam/Xbox/PSN/Nintendo username as you'd just be using a free Outbreak fan server account + an ingame alias and the game allows you to set up 3 different aliases per account.

There'd be no need for voice chat either if you want to have the classic PS2 Outbreak experience and rely on the ingame ad-lib system

You'd need

PCSX2 (Windows, Linux, Mac), XBSX2, (On Xboxes with dev mode unlocked) a PS2 or a fat PS3
Patched Japanese roms of Outbreak File 1 and 2 (easy to find)
Memory card files with the required online settings files ( also easy to find)
An obsrv account

Here is a tutorial video that goes over the setup process (for Windows). The memory cards mentioned above are linked in the description. Instead of patching the Japanese roms into English yourself, you can find them pre-patched on 💿Romance

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Once I've got a computer again I'd be down. Used to play with pals way the hell back.
Is it possible to play with a real PS2 with no mods? Maybe with a custom dns?
- It is, actually. The wiki at obsrv.org has instructions on how to set things up on a real PS2 and in fact recommends it as the most stable option. Not sure if there would be load time shenanigans between a PS2's DVD read speed and emulators running on all sorts of different devices.
  
  http://wiki.obsrv.org/index.php?n=Main.HomePage
  
  It looks like you can also play on a PS3! Neat.
  
  Note that you will need a way to run the patched Japanese isos at the very least, unless you have the original Japanese discs on hand and the region locking isn't an issue.
  
  Remember that you don't need to hard mod your PS2 in this day and age with things like FreeMCBoot.
  
  It would be awesome to play online on an original PS2, but it's looking like emulation would be more performant, and prettier too.
  
  I wonder why only the JP version though, it's a shame though bc I got the original game
Bumping for outbreak
if I figure out how to run PCSX2 on nixOS I would be down
- PCSX2 has a Linux version so you should be good to go. (Steam Deck users can play the games online too, in case any are reading this)
I love that game, but unfortunately I only play PS2 on my handhelds these days, and I don’t think Aethersx2 supports multiplayer online. I hope you find a good crew though, make sure to take screenshots!
- I think I saw someone mention somewhere that the Xbox port of PCSX2 works with online games including the Outbreak fan server, so maybe the Android version does too? 🤔
  
  Edit: Looked into it and netplay was never implemented. It does indeed work on XBSX2 though, according to this post
If our timezones are compatible sure
- I guess I don't need to sleep if its a weekend

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