October 2004
Beginner
464 pages
13h 42m
English
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Play Emulated Arcade Games Online
Can’t find four friends to crowd around your home arcade cabinet? Look online for team play.
One of the few arcade features that consoles, PC ports, and emulation can’t always provide is socialization. It’s fun to have the high score in a shooter, to take on all comers in a fighter, and to enter battle with three friends in a quarter-eating adventure game. You can recreate the games, but unless you have your own arcade cabinet ( [Hack #58] ) or an appropriate emulator ( [Hack #10] ) and can convince your friends to play along, you might think you’re stuck.
Fortunately, the clever Kaillera bridging software can play emulated titles online.
Introducing the Kaillera Middleware
As the word “middleware” suggests, there’s a key difference between Kaillera and the other retro emulators we’ve discussed. Kaillera software actually interfaces with existing emulators to allow multiplayer arcade games—not originally playable over any network—to play online. However, to make this work, the emulator developers must have incorporated Kaillera into their software.
The main Kaillera-enabled emulator is a MAME variant named MAME32k. It’s available with the Kaillera client itself on the site’s download page (http://www.kaillera.com/download.php). This is sufficient to play games. If you want to host games, you’ll need a completely different Kaillera server. The server is a standalone application also available from the download page. In general, the client is embedded ...
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