cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/36583324
Dedicated fans have finished the server emulator. For now it’s single player only, but they want to release multiplayer later.
You have to get the actual game files yourself (for obvious reasons), but you can find them easily, for example in the internet archive.
I’m in the middle of the campaign right now, and so far it works flawlessly.
And since this was the only racing game I played on a regular basis, I am happy! Fuck you Ubisoft! Thank you dedicated fans!!
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Thanks for reminding me that I live under a rock. On the sidenote, nice comeback. Don’t kill games imitative seem to left its mark already.
illi@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
As far as I can tell from a quick look, this is in no way official. Private servers for online games exist for decades by now (at least for MMOs). The issue is the legally gray area these exist in and that (I assume) it’s not that easy to make them with people.having to backwards engineer stuff.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
My bad, I should have looked into it before commenting. It’s a community project and not affiliated with publisher Ubisoft, right on the first linked page. So this has nothing to do with “Stop Killing Games” at all.
Little bit offtopic, but still ontopic somehow: I’m not sure why this is a grey area at all. There is a project for Nintendo games/systems providing community servers and services called “Pretendo Network” (fantastic name, BTW). In example Nintendo is aware of Pretendo, even warning in the public, but do not send their lawyers against it: nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-warns-against-usi… (sorry, I have access to Twitter blocked, so I rely on quotes and blog posts):
So, if even Nintendo doesn’t do anything against it, then it means its legal. xD