Gooti-Billa Goes in to PlayStation - Sony's addition Desi Adda

Its another supporting pillar for the Indian Gaming Industry. Sony after the Hanuman game, now adding the Desi Adda for the console which includes many games played in the villages like Gooti-Billa, Puli-Meka, Pachisi etc.

This is a nice move by Sony to encourage the village children too to participate in the console gaming world. It would be still better to launch few multiplayer games from the Indian Core.

As I see it, the gaming industry in India is going to be most competitive environment comparing it to other industries. Indian mind set is so, that if one of the thoughts is put into a typical Indian mind, it takes is spread in the circle very fast. Also, multiplayer games are most commonly played by many students in the institutions throughout India.

In this particular context, expecting a multi player game with story line from the Indian base is going to attract Indian gamers a lot. Of course it should be made with utmost care, as the view point of the gamers, if went negative a bit would result in a big a failure of the release.

Some game with good care some good story line with good graphics, that's all the gamers need to feed in this situation.

Fix - Could not establish connection to Steam servers - Use +ip HLDS command line

If you are here, you have Steam and you want to set up a Dedicated Server. You can install a Dedicated server using the Dedicated Server in Steam installed via steam or separately using HLDS update tool.

To know how to install dedicated server using HLDS Update  Tool, view this post on Installing HLDS. Once you install it, you can run the dedicated server using the HLDS.exe. But you may get this error saying,

Could not establish connection to Steam servers

This error occurs if your network IP is used in creating the dedicated server. For using you IP address from the ISP, you need to manually add it in the parameters. If you know how to insert +ip parameters, you can do it directly, else, see the explanation below.

For fixing this error, you need to give some parameters to the HLDS while running it. To do this, you should first create a shortcut to the HLDS.exe. Right click the shortcut and go to Properties. In the properties window, you will see a text box with the name Target. This box should be edited such that those parameters will be executed while running the application. The following examples lets you understand the commands and parameters,

"C:\Program Files\Valve\HLServer\hlds.exe" -game cstrike +map de_dust2 -console +port 27019 +hostname "Counter Strike 1.6" +sv_lan 0 +ip xx.xx.xx.xx

This is how the target should be set. Give IP and the error must be fixed. If you want to know your IP, just go to who.is and the website displays you the IP of your computer. Make sure you are not using local IP address.

Optional parameters like -console, can also be added in this target command.

Installing HL Dedicated Server using HLDS Update tool without Steam account

The installation of HL Server through HLDS Update tool can be done without using a steam account. Download the HLDS Update Tool from official Steampowered website. Then install the HLDS Update Tool, this will create a folder names HL Server in the directory specified. Then you can just use command line in the Command Prompt or the command parameters in the created shortcut of the HLDS Update Tool to install the games.

These are the parameters,

• -command update (necessary)
  
• -game cstrike | dod | tfc | valve | Counter-Strike Source
• -dir c:\hlserver | d:\hlserver | e:\HLDS

So the whole command appears like this in the command prompt,

• >HLDSUpdateTool.exe -command update -game cstrike -dir e:\HLDS

You can install it in as many directories as you wish. Also, you can install each mod in each folder of your wish. It will download the mod directly from the internet server. The total download size will be around 200 MB. Giving your Steam username and password is optional.

Once you install the server, you can start the dedicated server from the HLDS.exe. For this HLDS.exe too, you need to give some parameters to make it live with steam.

Most Economical Multiplayer Gaming - BSNL/Airtel Games on Demand - Rs. 100/- Per Month

Firstly, let me make it clear,

Airtel Games on Demand service, as I understand it from the official website, is only offering you one plan, that is Rs. 199/- per month. And the BSNL Games on Demand with the same Indiagames as the partner is offering 2 plans. One would feature 200 games with Rs.100/- monthly subscription and the second is Rs. 200/- per month, which would offer you all the 300 games and more adding to download and play.

So this makes it most economical gaming service you can get. You are just paying Rs. 200/- say, and you get full access to all the games with no downloading charges. If you are listening to this for the first time, you may think that the games might be published by either BSNL or Indiagames. But it is not like that, I will list some games which you can download and play through the GoD player of the service,

• Need For Speed Most Wanted
• Need For Speed Carbon
• Need For Speed Underground
• Age of Empires 2 The Conquerors Expansion (AOC)
  
• Age of Empires 2 The Age of Kings (AOK)
• Age of Mythology (AOM)
  
• BattleField 2
  
• BattleField 1942
• Medal of Honour Allied Assault
• Project IGI 2 Covert Strike
• Commandos Strike Force
  
• FIFA 07
• Brain Lara Cricket 2005

But it takes little more to make every one say, "Games on Demand Rocks!!". Thanks to BSNL and Airtel, especially Indiagames, Gaming Scenario in India is going to take its branches from these two service providers, while the roots are already existing.

Buy Game DVDs in Hyderabad CD World at Chenoy Trade Center, Secunderabad

The CD World at CTC(Chenoy Trade Center) Hyderabad offers you good collection of games for PC, XBOX, PS3.  At the very store you can shop many other CDs and DVDs related to software, education and all. But I started this topic for those who want to buy games DVDs in Hyderabad, and more specifically for those who are near Secunderabad.

If you want to buy the older games, not too old though, you can get them from there for lower price as there are games with e-play Logo. These games under the e-play logo are marketed by India's Game software distributor e-xpress Interactive Software Private Limited. You can get all the games with this logo for just Rs. 299/- each. These games with the e-play logo also include the games from big publishers like Ubisoft, Codemasters, THQ etc.

Some notable games with this e-play label are here,

• Ghost Recon 2 Advanced Warfighter
• Resident Evil 4
• Rainbow Six Vegas
• CSI: Hard Evidance
• Splinter Cell
• Microsoft Train Simulator
• Prince of Persia Sands of Time
• POP WW
• POP TTT,
• FarCry
• Company of Heroes
• Brian Lara Cricket 2005
  
• Operation Flash Point
  
• Heroes of Might and Magic III+IV
• Heroes of Might and Magic V
• Empire Earth Gold Edition
• Hitman Contracts
• Hitman 2 Silent Assassin
• Tomb Raider Legend
• Tomb Raider The Angel of Darkness
• Sonic Riders
• Medieval II Total War Gold Edition
• Rome Total War
• Virtual Tennis 3
• Universe at War and many more.

There are more games not listed above but with the e-play logo. Also, apart from these, there are many more games in the CD World Store. For setting your financial budget for buying games like famous Need For Speed series, you can get NFS Shift for Rs.1000, Age of Empires series, you can get AOE Collection till AOC for Rs. 499/-, AOE 3 and the series, there are editions which cost around Rs.1200/- and more than Rs. 2000/- too.

If you want to add something, just post it in the comments. I may add it to the post later.

WorldShift Multiplayer Page for PC Platform

This page if for all the gamers who want to play the game WorldShift Multiplayer. You can use this page for sharing your Hamachi Networks or Direct IPs or any other method through which you can play the game. I dont know yet, whether you can play the game in Hamachi or not, but I guess there would be some mthod by which you can play multiplayer and this page might help you.

If the game can be played through Hamachi I will add networks in this page, or just you can share your networks here as a comment. And if there is any other procedure you need to do for playing the game, you can share it with others here.

If you want to share your ideas on the game, you can just make it brief and comment here.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 - COD MW2 - Hamachi Networks

This post is for sharing your Hamachi networks for the game Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Just create some networks and post here as a comment.

You can see a Resident Evil 5 Hamachi Networks share page to know more,

Comment your networks here in this post.

Here are some of the networks,

1. codmw2_1
2. codmw2_2
3. codmw2_3
4. codmw2_4
5. codmw2_5

The password for all the networks is 1. Keep these networks active. Leave the network if you are going offline. Create more servers and share here as a comment.

Gaminglan's MatchUP - A multiplayer gamer page to engage matches

been trying since a month from now to develop a nice page for multiplayer gamers to engage themselves in matches. There are lot of other websites or Hamachi to engage matches, but I don't want this Gaminglan's MatchUP to be a client application, I want it to be a web interface.

So on the whole, Gaminglan's MatchUP should be a webpage with no registration, but users can if they want to, and is accessible to all. Any one can open gates to their games and other will follow them in their path. Registered users get advantage of reliability over the guests. The webpage should have links to all the game stats and that have been played by the users and there must be user ratings, the game viz. I don't want this page to interact in any manner with the game or the clients PC, but I want it to interact with gamer himself to the greatest possible.

I have been learning PHP to design pages. This looks crazy, but I want to know PHP as it is a very basic webpage building language and it has a lot of time remaining in the interent, a decade more at least I guess.

With the PHP knowledge, I have tried to make a chat page where multiplayer gamers can chat between themselves. This is a very basic version of that complex page. Now, as I am waiting for Call Letter from a company I am free. But once I get in to Job, I guess it would be hard for me to find some free time, but I can put some one writing the page for me, as I have funds for this then.

Any ways, I want to make multiplayer gaming as simplest as possible for any one on the Internet. But me doing alone all that is really hard. I guess I can find some great friends who are interested in Blogging and Gaming at the same time in the company I join. Once I find a nice partner, I wont be feeling tired I guess.

The chat page I have created is here and the forums are here.

Steam Accepts only 'Verified PayPal' Accounts - Buy Games on Steam Store

There were number of discussions both on steam forums and off steam forums about the usage of PayPal and Credit Cards to buy games on Steam. Some say 'Whats the use of PayPal if it is to be verified with Credit Card again.'. I don't know whats the use of it, but PayPal needs to be verified before you can buy games on Steam with PayPal. Else, the PayPal returns the error message something like this, 'Your seller needs instant payments, use Credit Card to very you account to perform instant payments.'

Apart from this, I am not sure whether it accepts payments from verified accounts with bank accounts.

BSNL calls and asks to check out the Games On Demand for a one month trail

Gaming On Demand is a service offered by BSNL in partnership with IndiaGames. This GOD Service is for BroadBand users. In this service, you can play games via broadband. The data transfer for the games you play wont be counted into your regular data transfer. And understood from the website GoD, the data transfer for Games is unlimited. Make sure it is before you take it for granted.

The plans are like this,

1. Rs 100 per month for 167 games
2. Rs 200 per month for 300 games (All games)

And the website says, new games are added every week.

So, coming to the games, Age of Empires The Conquerors is included, thats a good news for me, secondly Counter Strike 1.6 is not included in the games list. This is very bad new for the same me. But you can see the tab saying CS Servers, in that page, I can see some servers with 59.xxx and 203.xxx, looks little confusing.

Is it that the Counter Strike game connected to those servers wont be counted or is it that they are just giving those servers and it will be counted to the regular Broadband? This what I need to clarify.

Now to conclude, no matter how many times I play the game, I can download the games officially, its a very good feature. Thanks to BSNL. I look forward to make this Gaminglan more closer community to the BSNL GoD.

Siege Rams have attack bonus vs Siege Units - AOC

In the Age of Empires The Conquerors, the Siege Ram and other Rams have attack bonus vs other Siege units. You can check it in any game, the Siege Rams give up to 68 attack to any siege weapon viz the Siege Rams, the Onagers, the Scorpions, the Bombard Cannons and the Trebuchets. This can be taken as an advantage when the enemy is using ranged unit combos with out infantry or cavalry included. The Rams can go straight forward towards the Trebuchet surrounded by archers and can give 3 blows to crush the Treb down.

Generally, to counter a group of 50 heavy scorpions or more is a difficult task. But if you are playing Persians, you have an advantage as War Elephants can easily counter the Scorpions. But if you are playing with any other civilization, you need to think a while to decide what combination to use. Here the Siege Rams come handy. Just garrison some pikemen in the Rams and take them straight inside the Scorpions cover area. Each blow from Siege Ram crushes one Scorpions if its not Celt Heavy Scorpion.

Also, when you are playing with mongols, you can easily do the above trick as the Mongol SiegeRams, fully loaded with Pikemen can move faster than a Celt Champion. So, there is no stopping for infantry. Just go on in to the core of scorpions and crush each scorpion with single blow from Rams. Also, take care of the Rams as they only attack on giving a command, irrespective of whether they are set to aggressive or defensive stance.

Halberdier has 66 attack bonus against War Elephants - AOC Tips

AOC is such a game where everything is set to a balance, no one unit has monopoly in AOC. If it were to be such a case, then the game just revolves around that unit with number of units created by a player. But its not the case. Each and every unit has some strength and weakness.

Elite War Elephant has 620 Hit Points to be a unique unit with highest hit points in the whole Age of Empires 2 The Conquerors. Just 5 of these units can crush down 30 champions, 15 paladins, 40 Hussars of Mongols meaning the Hussars of highest grade and many more archers. That is huge power. But when you play Persians, beware there are Halberdiers too in the game. Just 12 Halberdiers can crush down these 5 War Elephants. This is because each Halberdier causes 66 damage to an elephant. This is one of the huge bonus attacks the units have in AOC, after Rams. Even though the Halberdier's 2/3rds attack is inaccurate, 12 are enough to nutralize 5 big units.

The Aztecs vs the Byzantines in AOC

The Aztecs are fairly powerful in their game with good monks strength. They have defense for every other civilization and their units. As they have Pikemen as a counter for cavalry and all mounted units, elite Skirmisher for archers and Hand Cannoneers, Jaguar Warriors for attack bonus vs infantry. Its a good mixture of these units. But they really lack faster stable units. If some one is attacking with bombard cannons, its really hard to counter those units if supported with Archers and Cavalry. This is the situation where you have to use monks to convert some enemy units to defend yourselves.

Byzantines are one civilization who can crush down Aztecs very easily, no matter what units and combos the Aztecs use. The Cataphract can cause up 29 damage to units with no native armor that is 0+3, and hence can cause 55+ damage with two hits enough to neutralize Pikemen. When Cataprhacts are causing trample damage, the over all destruction reaches more than 30, causing even the champions to survive only two hits at most. The Pikemen cannot resist the attack from the Cataphracts as they only need two hits from Cataphracts to be neutralized.

Try a game with these two civs. The army management should be perfect if you are playing Aztecs. You need all your concentration on army itself unlike the byzantines, where create and leave on the enemy is enough.

Alganon Hamachi Networks

Alganon is scheduled to release in December, this year. The game is said to be similar to the previous hero, the World of Warcraft. This might get better if it shows some simplicity, instead of adding too many features in an attempt to look different to the previous game, Warcraft.

No matter what, if it has got some good start, its going to overtake other games very easily. I guess there wont be any compromise on the graphical appearance.

I hope this should be playable through Hamachi, else use these networks to just chat.

These are Hamachi networks for the game Alganon.

1. alganon
2. Alganon
3. ALGANON

The password for all the networks is 1. You can share any other ideas about the game here. Also share more Hamachi networks here.

Japanese Samurai vs Aztec Jaguar Warrior in AOC Face-on

This is a good selection of units where both the units have bonus attack vs the other unit. The bonus attack of Jaguar Warrior is 10 and that of Samurai is 12. This makes the Samurai more efficient but the original attack itself is less for Samurai than the Jaguar Warrior with +4 attack, also the Jaguar Warrior has 2 normal armour. So stats go like this, Jaguar Warrior makes 26 damage to Samurai and  Samurai makes 23 damage to Jaguar Warrior. More over, the hit points of Jaguar Warrior is 75 and that of Samurai is 80. This makes the combination most closest to each other. But there is a lot of difference when we go practical.

The Japanese civilization has 25% faster attack. So, Samurai gives more attacks than Jaguar Warrior, this makes  Samurai the winner. But when you try to make this happen for a champ, he cannot do it, as the bonus attack doesn't exists for champs. So for Japanese leave your champs alone and leave the Samurais in the enemy towns.

If you are still thinking about the 25% advantage being the key, yes, this is the only factor which made the samurai win. Also, this is the reason for a margin as high as 28 hit points remaining for Samurai.

Like this combination there are many more combinations in AOC which are very close in statistical data, but quite divergent in the practical map.

Concluding that, if you are Japanese and want to win over Aztecs, just create samurai a lot and leave the rest to them.

Japanese Champion wins over Aztec and Viking Civilizations Champion in AOC

The Japanese Civilization in Age of Empires 2 The Conquerors has 25% faster attack for its infantry starting from fuedal age. This advantage is much better than the other advantages like +4 attack, +20% hit points which are available for Aztecs and Vikings respectively.

I have put a 1 on 1 game for these units, in which, the Japanese Champion takes over the other two civilizations champions separately in two different games. The margin of the win is very narrow. It is as small as 2 or 5. But when we put a 1 on 1 game for these two lost civilizations, the Aztec Champs win over Viking Champs and with a margin of 12 hit points.

No wonder, the way the army is managed can always affect the results adversely. The stronger unit may fail badly over the weaker unit. The basic noob stunt is to click on one of the enemy unit in the group to attack him with owners army group. This would make all the players army group to start roaming in front of the enemy group to attack the unit clicked on. Instead you learn with experience that you should just stop the army in front of the enemy group to get better results.

In the above context, I have discussed about the Japanese, Aztec and Vikings. But the celts are not less. The celts champs move 15% faster meaning that the castle destruction would be much faster than normal. Also, the champ group if facing an Archer group, the champs can reach archers faster thus making it easier for  themselves to survive.

Warcraft Hamachi Networks Share Page

Warcraft has been almost as popular as any other most popular games of all time. This game is played in almost all the LAN communities. It is most popular for the multi-player mode. It is widely played through Hamachi too. I thought why not to have a dedicated share page for Hamachi networks. This would solve a number of problems being faced to share the networks. All at one place is nice.

Here is this page, you can share your Hamachi networks, by commenting here, on this page. Here are some of the networks created for you.

1. playWarcraft
2. playWarcraft_1
3. playWarcraft_2
4. playWarcraft_3

The password for all the networks is 1.

Keep the networks active, leave the networks while going offline. Invite others to the networks. Share more networks. Create more networks in this series and keep reporting which network is currently active.

If you want to share any other IPs and info, you can share them here.

Painkiller Resurrection Hamachi Networks List

This is the page for you to share your Hamachi Networks for the game Painkiller Resurrection. This game is set to release in this month, Oct 2009. The game is an FPS. It has single player, multi-player modes.

Here are the Hamachi Networks with password 1.

1. Painkiller Resurrection
2. PainkillerResurrection
3. painkillerresurrection

Create more networks and share then here, as a comment or as a message in the embedded form. Share your Networks. Or in both. Keep the networks active, leave the network when you are going offline. Reconnect when you want to join. More networks will be added in the comments if possible.

The official Game website for Painkiller Resurrection is here at Painkiller Resurrection and the Wikipedia page is Painkiller Resurrection

If you want to give a brief review of the game, you are always welcome. Write it down as a comment. This would be helpful for other gamers to know how the game feels like.

Rogue Warrior Hamachi Networks List for Multiplayer

Rogue Warrior is new game set to release on 1st Dec 2009. The game has multiplayer mode including the Stealth, Tactical Shooter, FPS. So, definitely is going to attract crowds if not masses.

This page is for sharing your Hamachi Networks here are some. You can share yours too here. If you want to share any other information about the game, you can share it too.

These are the Hamachi Networks with password 1.

1. rogueWarrior
2. RogueWarrior_1
3. RogueWarrior_2
4. RogueWarrior_3
5. RogueWarrior_4

 Keep the series going. Share more networks in comments. Keep the networks active. Leave the network if the network is inactive.

If you have time, write a short review about the game so that others would know how the game feels like.

Borderlands Hamachi Networks and Tunngle Communities List

-=-Note: It seems that the game cannot be played directly through Hamachi. If there are any mods developed, it may be possible. But I dont know whether there are any mods developed for this. If I get to know about some mod, I will post about that mod here. However, you can use the networks to chat between yourselves.

Refer to the comments on this page to know some solutions to play Borderlands on Hamachi. GL! HF!

This page is for sharing the Hamachi Networks and Tunngle Communities for the game BorderLands. The game is set to release on 26th of October 2009. The game has co-operative multi-player and Multiplayer modes. It is designed on Unreal Engine 3 as said at wikipedia. No matter how many you create the networks will be full in hours. So lets share some of  them here,

These Hamachi networks are with password 1.

1. BorderLands
2. borderlands_1
3. borderlands_2
4. borderlands_3
5. borderlands_4

Make sure that you type the network name in same cases, the name is case sensitive. Also, share your networks here as a comment below. This will keep the network chain active. Join only one active network and try to keep it active. Leave the network if it goes inactive. This may make it fresh network again.

More about BorderLands is available at Wikipedia: Borderlands. Official Website is here - Borderlands.

PsychoStats 3.1 Stats.pl not able to access the database remotely

As I have explained previously, if your Host is not allowing access to mysql remotely with SSH, dont worry. One way is to change the mysql host leaving the PHP host same. Find a mysql host who allows remote access.

If this sounds silly, just make your own server by installing Fedora Core 10 or 11 with all the packages for webserver including Perl and its ppms. Make your own PsychoStats installation. Now each time you update your local machine with stats, transfer the database to the webhost, who is not allowing the remote access.

This can be done like this,

1. Give this command in local machine your Fedora - shell> mysqldump psychostats3_1 >newfile.txt
2. You get a 2.8 MB txt file
3. Log in into Hsoting Provider
4. Go to Database PHPMyAdmin
5. Go to restore or import
6. give this file when asked
7. All the tabels and data from your local web machine will go into the hosting provider mysql database

So now you can see the stats in the main website. But you need to do this everytime you update stats. If you are getting some problems like config changes in database like you theme directories change, you login information changes, then disable some tables from dumping. Like the command below

• Shell> mysqldump psychostats --ignore-table=psychostats.ps_config --ignore-table=psychostats.ps_config_events --ignore-table=psychostats.ps_config_themes --ignore-table=psychostats.ps_errlogs --ignore-table=psychostats.ps_geoip_ip --ignore-table=psychostats.ps_geoip_cc

All the above command is a single command in single line. This will avoid this local machine config data to go in to the private hosting provider's database.

PsychoStats 3.1 theme folders and URLs configuration

Create a folder named ThemeCompDir (no need of caps) in themes folder. Give this folder path in that themes compiled directory. Next, it asks images absolute directory. Give the absolute directory of the folder, if you dont know the absolute directory, ask the hosting provider, it must be well known to the other members atleast. it will be like /home/volume/.../... etc.

So theme compile directory will be - /home/some/path/site/htdocs/stats/themes/ThemeCompDir - (no need of caps)

Images abolute directory path: /home/some/path/site/htdocs/stats/img/
Images abolute URL: http://stats.example.com/img/ 
Images:flags abolute directory path: /home/some/path/site/htdocs/stats/img/flags
Images:flags abolute URL: http://stats.example.com/img/flags  
Images:icons abolute directory path: /home/some/path/site/htdocs/stats/img/icons/
Images:icons abolute URL: http://stats.example.com/img/icons/ 
Images:roles abolute directory path: /home/some/path/site/htdocs/stats/img/roles/
Images:roles abolute URL: http://stats.example.com/img/roles/

Theme URL: http://stats.example.com/themes/
Themes Directory: /home/some/path/site/htdocs/stats/themes

Give all the directories and URL exactly, and you are done with all the work.

PsychoStats 3.1 not able to install, getting 403 Error - Manual Install

I got this while using some private host, the following is what I did to solve this.

I came to know that the problem is some differences in permissions for one PHP file to access another in its directory. I searched for manual install steps for PsychoStats but could not find any. So I made my own webserver.

I installed Fedora Core 10 X86_64 linux and made a webserver with PHP, MySQL, Perl including DBD::MySQL and DBI modules. Now installed the PsychoStats 3.1 package from my http://localhost/install.

That was working well after I gave all the files write permissions. Before that, my linux was saying that these files are copied from some user, you cannot put these directly in the var/www/html, these files need permissions. So I said OK! and then gave a command in the terminal as said by linux. That is, go to the directory var/www/html and give restorecon -R -v '.' (not sure). Now I installed it and it is ok. I have downloaded some logs from internet and tested by running stats.pl file, its ok. I was able to see the player stats too.

Now I have finished installation by initializing database and creating an admin. Nice! Now I have dumped all the mysql database called psychostats3_1 and transfered it to private webhost where I have placed the PHP files. So now the initialized database is ok, the created user is also in the database itself. So I should use the same username and password in the admin panel. It works! Now the stats main page wont work. Gives some error saying $compiledir or something. For this, I need to go to the admin control panel and go to the config. Then to the themes tab. In that themes tab. It asks me about the themes compile directory. The images directory etc.

This help about folder in next post.

How to create Logs in Counter Strike 1.6 for PsychoStats

There are simple commands to do this.

1. log on - Switches on Logging of the game.
2. sv_onelogfile - Does not matter
3. logdir - The directory in CStrike which should contain the logs, 'logs' is default name of the directory

Now go to Cstrike/logs or any other folder you have made, you can see L*******.log. This is log file you need for Psychostats. Save these logs some where in your web directory for easy installation and give this path in the Log source in Admin Config.

If you want to put these logs some where else not in the web directory, make sure that you and Perl script, Stats.pl can access it with FTP access or Stream access.

Why to Configure Stats.pl in PsychoStats

Stats.pl needs Log Sources to get data of the game like Counter Strike 1.6. So to know where the log files are, the Stats.pl connects remotely to the PHP uploaded package and gets path of Log files from it.

How did the PHP uploaded package know where the Log files are? You should set it up in the Admin Config of PsychoStats Installation.

Where do I put the Logs? Any where inside the PHP path for easy set up.

How do I create logs? - Next Post

Where should the each part be in the PsychoStats Installtion Scenario

The Game can be running in any PC any where in the world, but enable logs and take the logs from it and Put it in a place where the Stats.pl can access it. So, Logs created from the game console are the sources for the PsychoStats. This PC must have the game installed.

Where the Stats.pl should be? Any PC anywhere in the where in the world, but it should be able to access the database being used by PHP application and also the Logs source by FTP or by Stream or by normal access in same PC. This PC must have the Perl installed with DBD::mysql addon and DBI addons

Where should the PHP Application should be? Any PC anywhere in the world, but the database of this should be accessible remotely to the stats.pl. This PC should have the Webserver (Apache) with PHP and Database (Mysql).

Also, you must give the location of the Logs in the PHP config. Best method is to put the Logs in some folder inside the PHP installation. Like if the stats.example.com is the website, stats.example.com/logs/ can be the Logs folder for easy set up.

Now when you configure the Stats.pl perl script and run it. It will remotely connect to the database of the PHP installation and checks where the Log files are, makes data from it. Sends the data into the same database it has connected to but puts in other tables. Now this data is shown by the PHP package in the Upload directory of PsychoStats package.

How the PsychoStats take the Game Stats Data - Log Source

In PsychoStats on whole, there are three parts.

1. Game, whos stats are to be shown
2. PHP package which shows the data
3. Perl Scripts which links both

Per scripts are written to make a connection between both. This means the perl connects directly to PHP or its database and the Game too. Yes, the perl connects directly to the game in the form of information extractor from the game Log files. Games like Counter Strike, Call of Duty have the option to log the console of the game. Means that each and every event occurred in the game is logged into a file in the system. So, now the perl can know what has happened in the game. But the Perl even is not asking me any log source! Yes even the perl will take the location of the log source from the PHP itself.

No matter where the Log Sources are, Perl can access it if there is a way, only thing is you need to let it know where the Log Source files are. This again can be configured in the PHP package installation itself installation itself.

Now, Perl will take the info from the log sources and make it into a database. This database is manipulated or structure in required form in the PHP web application package.

So Perl connects to Database, know the Logs location, takes the Game stats info, makes it into a Database again and puts in the database.

But, what is what, where should each part be? On same computer or different ones for each or what? - See the next Post.

Thought of a Intranet Stats Website for Counter Strike 1.6 in our Institute LAN

It started with counter strike 1.6 game. I was not as core gamer as other few in my institute LAN in NIT but I was a freak too. I wanted to have a Web Community for our NIT players, not on Orkut or Facebook but I thought of one in Intranet. I chose Intranet and not Internet for the following reasons, no only one reason, Internet in the Hostel was never reliable. No matter how hard I work on the Internet, if the Internet connection goes off, no valid point for my work. right!

I was a guy with some knowledge of AMX, Metamod, StatsMe plugins for Counter Strike. So I searched for some more, stats plugins in particular. I came through Psychostats. I have downloaded the package and was viewing the files, the readme and INSTALL.txt. It says you need to put the files of upload directory in the web server and lib and stats.pl file in the local machine. It never asked me anything about the Counter Strike Installation folder or any other game related folder from which I thought it may take the stats from. Especially there is a csstats file which has some stats. I thought that is the file PsychoStats needs, but it didnot ask me anything about it.

So how will PsychoStats take the game statistics data? - This is my next post.

Got PsychoStats Stats Website Working Live at last

After a very long journey towards the goal, PsychoStats is working fine now. I will try to give the details of the problems I have faced all along and then I will give some tips to solve those problems.

The next few posts will be about the same topic, Psychostats. This is because I want to make some topics very clear to all. I have seen forums of psychostats website, there are good number of problems asked, but I will focus on what I know and how I did solve some issues. There are some instances where I was frustrated enough to go for Hair-Pulling. I want to make some points clear so that the other friends would save some hair.

You wont get the topics list some where but I will add the PsychoStats-Tutorial label to each of the posts. So, just click on that lable and you will get the list of all posts I have posted in this season about the PsychoStats.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 Hamachi Networks - Share yours

-=-Note: It seems the game PES 2010 is not directly playable through Hamachi. If someone knew a method to play on Hamachi, share it with others. I have created the networks page 2 days before with a expectation that it can be played through Hamachi. I will keep this page alive instead of deleting it. Hope you all understand. I am a gamer very same as you all.

Here in this page you can share your Hamachi networks and Tunngle Communities for the game Pro Evolution Soccer 2010. Some of the network names I have created are,

1. PES24x7
2. PES24x7_1
3. PES24x7_2
4. PES24x7_3
5. PES24x7_4

All the networks are with password 1. If all the networks are full, create the next networks in this series with password 1 in the same format.

Join only one network and keep the network active, leave the network if it goes inactive so that later it can be joined by other players.

New highly simplified gaming community added at chat.gaminglan.net

I am currently testing this page. But it works well. This is a simplified gaming community where you can just share the information you want to share. Thats it!

The link is here - Multiplayer Chat

With this, the number of sub-domains at Gaminglan goes to 5. mail, forums, feeds, www, chat.

For any information, you can reply to this post.

For more, go to the chat page now and give feedback here.

Tree Command Menu in Counter Strike 1.6 Listen Servers using Commandmenu.txt

When you are hosting a listen server, the administration of the server becomes very difficult as you are busy playing. The best solution is to Bind keys for all the 104 keys and remember them, or just make a  Tree Menu and everything comes into the screen. Image below is showing the Tree Menu.



Below is the code, you need to put in the commandmenu.txt in your Cstrike folder of your Counter Strike 1.6 Installation. It will then be showing the Treemenu as given in image above.

// This is the command menu..!
// The menu that appears when u press "h"...!

"1" "Current Game"
{
    CUSTOM    "1" "Show Map Briefing"    "!MAPBRIEFING"
    "2" "Change Team" "chooseteam"
    "3" "Show Time Left" "timeleft"
}


"2" "Team Messages"
{

    "1" "'Acknowledged'"    "roger"
    "2" "'Negative'"    "negative"
    "3" "'Need backup!'"    "needbackup"
    "4" "'Go Go Go!'"    "go"
    "5" "'Cover me!'"    "coverme"
    "6" "On my way"        "roger; say_team On my way.."
    "7" "Covering fire!"    "go; say_team Covering fire!"
    "8" "Complete the objective" "regroup; say_team Complete the objective, team."
    "9" "Sniper spotted"     "enemyspot; say_team Sniper spotted!"
}


"3" "Client Options"
{
    "1" "Gameplay Settings"
    {
        "1" "Weapon Hands"
        {
            "1" "Use Right Models" "cl_righthand 1"
            "2" "Use Left Models" "cl_righthand 0"
        }
        "2" "Menu Type"
        {
            "1" "VGUI" "setinfo _vgui_menus 1"
            "2" "Classic Text" "setinfo _vgui_menus 0"
        }
        "3" "Dynamic Crosshair"
        {
            "1" "On" "cl_dynamiccrosshair 1"
             "2" "Off" "cl_dynamiccrosshair 0"
        }
        "4" "Center ID"
        {
            "1" "On" "hud_centerid 1"
            "2" "Off" "hud_centerid 0"
        }
        "5" "Radar Type"
        {
            "1" "Transparent" "cl_radartype 0"
            "2" "Solid" "cl_radartype 1"
        }
        "6" "Show FPS"
        {  
            "1" "Show FPS" "cl_showfps 1"
            "2" "Hide FPS Display" "cl_showfps 0"
        }
        "7" "Auto Weapon Switch"
        {
            "1" "On" "setinfo _cl_autowepswitch 1"
            "2" "Off" "setinfo _cl_autowepswitch 0"
        }
        "8" "HUD Fastswitch"
        {
            "1" "Disable HUD Fastswitch" "hud_fastswitch 0"
            "2" "Enable HUD Fastswitch" "hud_fastswitch 1"
        }
        "9" "Zoom Sensitivity" "messagemode zoom_sensitivity_ratio"
        "10" "Mouse Sensitivity" "messagemode sensitivity"
              
          
    }

    "2" "Change Crosshair Color" "adjust_crosshair"
    "3" "Change Name" "messagemode name"
    "4" "Change Team" "chooseteam"
}
"4" "Server Settings"
{
    "1" "Friendly Fire"
     {  
        "1" "Off" "mp_friendlyfire 0"
        "2" "On" "mp_friendlyfire 1"
    }
    "2" "Round Time"
     {  
        "1" "Low 1.5" "mp_roundtime 1.5"
        "2" "Med 2" "mp_roundtime 2"
        "3" "Med 2.5" "mp_roundtime 2.5"
        "4" "High 3" "mp_roundtime 3"
    }
    "3" "Freezetime"
    {  
        "1" "No 0" "mp_freezetime 0"
        "2" "Low 3" "mp_freezetime 3"
        "3" "Med 6" "mp_freezetime 6"
        "4" "High 10" "mp_freezetime 10"
    }
    "4" "Auto Team Balance"
    {  
        "1" "Off" "mp_autoteambalance 0"
        "2" "On" "mp_autoteambalance 1"
    }
    "5" "Gravity"
    {  
        "1" "Very High" "sv_gravity 2000"
        "2" "High" "sv_gravity 1000"
        "3" "Low" "sv_gravity 200"
        "4" "Very Low" "sv_gravity 50"
        "5" "Specify Gravity" "messagemode sv_gravity"
    }
    "6" "All Talk"
    {  
        "1" "Enable" "sv_alltalk 1"
        "2" "Disable" "sv_alltalk 0"
    }
    "7" "Start Money"
    {  
        "1" "High" "mp_startmoney 16000"
        "2" "Normal" "mp_startmoney 800"
        "3" "Specify Money" "messagemode mp_startmoney"
    }
}
"5" "Maps"
{
    "1" "de Maps"
    {
        "1" "Aztec" "changelevel de_aztec"
        "2" "Dust"  "changelevel de_dust"
        "3" "Dust2" "changelevel de_dust2"
        "4" "Train" "changelevel de_train"
        "5" "Nuke" "changelevel de_nuke"
        "6" "Inferno" "changelevel de_inferno"
        "7" "Cbble" "changelevel de_cbble"
        "8" "Airstrip" "changelevel de_airstrip"      
        "2" "Torn"  "changelevel de_torn"
        "3" "Chateau" "changelevel de_chateau"
        "4" "Piranesi" "changelevel de_piranesi"
        "5" "Survivor" "changelevel de_survivor"
        "6" "Prodigy" "changelevel de_prodigy"
        "7" "Vertigo" "changelevel de_vertigo"
        "8" "Storm" "changelevel de_storm"
    }
    "2" "cs Maps"
    {
        "1" "747" "changelevel cs_747"
        "2" "Assault"  "changelevel cs_assault"
        "3" "Backalley" "changelevel cs_backalley"
        "4" "Estate" "changelevel cs_estate"
        "5" "Havana" "changelevel cs_havana"
        "6" "Italy" "changelevel cs_italy"
        "7" "Militia" "changelevel cs_militia"
        "8" "Office" "changelevel cs_office"
        "9" "Siege" "changelevel cs_siege"
        "10" "cs_snowflake" "changelevel cs_snowflake"
        "11" "cs_tibet" "changelevel cs_tibet"
    }
    "3" "New de Maps"
    {
        "1" "Mill" "changelevel de_cpl_mill"
        "2" "Vegas"  "changelevel de_vegas"
        "3" "Village" "changelevel de_village"
        "4" "Dust2[EM]" "changelevel de_dust2[em]"
        "5" "Dust4" "changelevel de_dust4"
        "6" "Winter Nuke" "changelevel de_winternuke"
        "7" "X-Mas Dust" "changelevel de_xmasdust"
        "8" "Soviet" "changelevel de_soviet"
        "9" "IceD 2k" "changelevel de_iced2k"
        "10" "Celtic" "changelevel de_celtic"
        "11" "Aztec2" "changelevel de_aztec2"
    }
    "4" "Small Maps"
    {
        "1" "Aim Deagle" "changelevel aim_deagle"
        "2" "Aim Pistols" "changelevel aim_pistols"
        "3" "AWP City"  "changelevel awp_city"
        "4" "AWP India" "changelevel awp_india"
        "5" "Snow" "changelevel fy_snow"
        "5" "Scoutz Knivez" "changelevel scoutzknivez"
        "5" "Scoutz Knivez 3" "changelevel scoutzknivez3"
        "5" "Scoutz Knivez Dust" "changelevel scoutknivez_dust"
    }
    "5" "Specify Map" "messagemode changelevel"
}
"6" "Load Configs"
{
    "1" "Demo Play cfg" "exec demoplay.cfg"
    "2" "Demo Record cfg" "exec demorecord.cfg"
    "3" "Main cfg" "exec lsmain.cfg"
    "4" "Plugins cfg" "exec lsplugins.cfg"
    "3" "Sensitivity cfg" "exec sensitivity.cfg"
}
"7" "Demos"
{
    "1" "Record Demo" "messagemode record"
    "2" "Stop" "stop"
}

Counter Strike 1.6 Userconfig.cfg Commands

Firstly, let me explain what the userconfig.cfg file is,

The .cfg files contains list of console commands which should be executed before showing the console even. Counter Strike game when loads accesses a config.cfg file which contains all the required settings of the game. The Config.cfg file contains "exec userconfig.cfg" as its last line to enable Userconfig.cfg file too. So, the Config.cfg contains general settings and Userconfig.cfg file contains user settings. The users commands can also be dumped in the config.cfg file, but it looks nice to have two seperate files.

Also, if number of players are playing on same PC, they can manage their own userconfig files to change all the settings for themselves. These may appear like this,

Userconfig_Temp.cfg

name "Temp"
con_color "25 255 25"
bind "F3" "exec lsmain.cfg"
bind "F4" "exec lsplugins.cfg"
bind "F5" "snapshot"
bind "F6" "save quick"
bind "F7" "load quick"
bind "F8" "exec sensitivity.cfg"
bind "F10" "quit prompt"
bind "F11" "exec demorecord.cfg"
bind "F12" "exec demoplay.cfg"

Userconfig_Toph.cfg

name "Toph"
con_color "50 255 50"

bind "F3" "exec lsmain.cfg"
bind "F4" "exec tophbuy.cfg"
bind "F5" "snapshot"
bind "F6" "save quick"
bind "F7" "load quick"
bind "F8" "exec sensitivity.cfg"
bind "F10" "quit prompt"
bind "F11" "exec demorecord.cfg"
bind "F12" "exec demoplay.cfg"

Userconfig_MAC.cfg

name "Temp"
con_color "25 255 25"

bind "F3" "exec lsmain.cfg"
bind "F4" "exec macbuy.cfg"
bind "F5" "snapshot"
bind "F6" "save quick"
bind "F7" "load quick"
bind "F8" "exec sensitivity.cfg"
bind "F10" "quit prompt"
bind "F11" "exec demorecord.cfg"
bind "F12" "exec demoplay.cfg"

Now each user when starts playing, executes his config first and then proceeds.

partes o Resident Evil 5 Hamachi redes para jogar online multi-player

há um lugar que tem mais de 50 comentários com redes de Hamachi, é no Hamachi Redes comentário na página do dado ou nesta página para compartilhar suas redes de Hamachi.

Você também pode compartilhar outras informações sobre The Game aqui.

Counter Strike 1.6 Radar Help for Beginners

90% of noob gamers of Counter Strike 1.6 ignore the Radar. Radar is what you see on the top-left corner of the game screen. It appears in Green Transparent or Green Flood Fill form. It is a personal option to chose between both. The game screen with the Radar is shown in the image below.

The green circle can be seen the image. The radar contains two sections, one with lighter green, and other dark green. The light green section is the view you can see in the game. It is almost a 90^o sector. When ever, you change the look with your mouse, the radar rotates to put what is visible to you in the view.

The radar wont rotate, it rotates the objects in it. So, no matter what ever direction you look at, you only see the visible section points forward. The symbols come and go in to the visible section as you move.
Now, the core: Radar shows you the following,

1. Your allies in same level as you - White squares
2. Your allies level above you - White T
3. Your allies level below you - Inverted White T
   
4. Bomb carrying unit, visible to T's only - Orange Square
5. Bomb Planted Location - Blinking X
   
6. Bomb location visible to all, if dropped - Blinking Orange
   
7. Your allies talking - Shown as blinking white square
   

Most common mistake, every newbie does at some point of time is to ask where the bomb has been planted or it is dropped. The thing is, you can see the location of the dropped bomb in the Radar as blinking orange or blinking X when planted.

So you should see the Radar as soon as the following instances occur,

1. At the spawn point for T's to know where the Bomber is going
2. Bomb is dropped
3. Bomb is Planted
   
4. Ally sends voice messages

Acclaim Re-Volt Racing Game works well in Windows Vista SP1

Acclaim Re-Volt game has some problems with the compatibility in Windows Vista in the .hull section. But there is no problem with Windows Vista SP1.

This is a similar problem to a number of problems associated with Windows Vista, which are later solved in the SP1 version of Windows Vista.

You can see more posts in this blog regarding the Re-Volt in the related posts.

Motocross Madness - How to Avoid Crash while performing Stunts

The Motocross Madness game has a Stunt Mode, where the player needs to do the stunts with the bike to gain points. The ranking will be given based on the points secured by performing stunts. In this case, it is easier to beat others by doing stunts with long distances. But the problem is, if you crash after doing the stunt, you loose the points which you should have got by doing the stunts.

If you want to avoid crash,

1. make more longer jumps, than high jumps. Bike is more prone to crash when you jump higher, if you jump longer, you wont find it difficult to balance the bike.
2. Always, see that your bike and the handle is straight to the ground and the parallel to the movement direction.
3. If you are landing on a steep hill, kerp your bike direction such that it moves down the hill.
4. Try to land the back wheel before the front wheel. If you land your front wheel first, you may topple down.
5. If you are jumping along the side of the steep hill, keep your bike position such that it is perpendicular to the slanting.

Share more if you have some tips.

Volken Turbo vs Splinter XL in Acclaim Revolt Racing Game

Acclaim Revolt is one of the nicest racing games in the past. The game includes some remote controlled toy cars which are operated by the gamer. The game play includes simple racing with little twist, the tracks are small and have powers distributed all around. The cars can take powers and use them to interrupt the other cars racing. The game has multiplayer too via LAN and Internet.

The cars in this game have three attributes, namely Speed, Handling and Acceleration. The fasted in the given cars is Splinter XL and Car with best Handling is Volken Turbo. There are other cars faster than this, but they should be unlocked by playing the Bronze, Silver and Gold Cups.

When you want to compare the Volken Turbo to Splinter XL, Splinter XL wins only if in the Hands of an Expert. If you are rookie, better go for Volken Turbo. Splinter XL in nice hands can defeat Volken Turbo easily. RC Bandit too is a nice car but it is for secondary to either Splinter XL or Volken Turbo level.

Codemasters Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising Hamachi Networks List

Comment to share your Networks here.

This is the post for you to share your Hamachi Networks for the game OFP2 Dragon Rising. The game developed by Codemasters has SinglePlayer Co-operative mode and MultiPlayer Co-operative mode. This means that you can join Singleplayer mode with human players to complete the campaigns co-operatively and you can play the normal Multiplayer too.

I will give you some of the suggestions for network names to create. Create these networks with password 1.

1. playOFP
2. playOFP1
3. playOFP2
4. playOFP3
5. playOFP4

Remember that the Hamachi Network names are case sensitive, and hence playofp network is different from PlayOFP networks. The created networks will be full in minutes, so keep them active at least. The networks can be created in the above format without any end. And comment here with the network names each time you create a new network. Join only two or three networks. If the network goes inactive, leave the network and join new network, never let it go inactive for long periods.

If you want to share any other information regarding the game, you can share it here in the form of comment, or you can use the forums. Hamachi Networks thread for OFP2 Dragon Rising is here.

Codemasters Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising HD Preview Video - Look and Feel

Here is a preview video of the game. Another game from Codemasters with Action. The game appears to have cool graphics with not much system requirements. The game demands 256MB memory for either nVIDIA or ATI Graphic Cards. With this we can conclude that the game might run pretty well in the current systems, unlike the EA releases where you need to upgrade your Sys (System) for every game release.


Regarding the Video, you can see that the graphics are nice. The weaponry is cool. The appearance is good. The gameplay looks nice with lot of grass on the battle field providing adequate camouflage to the forces. The night vision usage seems to have good variation in look of the surroundings. Only if the environment has the afternoon look, like in Call of Duty thats just awesome. The evening look with sun on one side of the map to glare off the look is what I don't like much. May be fight in the after noon and sleep rest of the day is fine strategy for me.

Gameplay related, the question is, whether the game decides when to drive a Tank, or would I decide to do that. After all a Tank need more than one soldier to fight. So pretty useful in Multiplayer Co-op mode. The game's better part is that Multiplayer doesn't just ask you to fight between yourselves, you can play Co-Op with other players on a Single Player Campaign. That's a cool feature.

OFP2 Hamachi Networks are here.

More discussion about game play in later posts. Use forums or Comment here if you want to discuss something more.

Download Maps and Demos for CS1.6

Here are some of the methods by which you can find the Demos and Maps Downloads for Counter Strike 1.6. The search engines will help you find the maps and demos in minutes. Type the keywords exactly as shown below,

For Maps - Use the search format below,
keywords: index of /cstrike/maps

For Demos - Use this search format
keywords: filetype:dem [map names]

Here are some websites with maps,

• www.huskygaming.com/cstrike/maps/
• www.velocity-servers.net/redirect/cstrike/maps/
• www.counterstrike.ultra-boards.net/cstrike/maps/
• download.extream.ro/cstrike/maps/
• www.geclan.net/cstrike/maps/
• mugsymalone.com/cstrike/maps/ 
• cs.gamer.uz/cstrike/maps/
• www.cs-source.lt/cstrike/maps/

If you want to share more links where you want to share your demos or maps, you can share them here in this page as a comment to this post. Keep in mind to add counter strike 1.6 word in the search if you want to exclude any Counter Strike:Source maps and demos.

AMX Mod X Console Commands and Syntax

Requirements:

1. CS1.6 Installed
2. Metamod Installed
   
3. AMX Mod X Installed
   

These are the commands you need to type in console after the installation of AMX Mod X for your CS1.6 installation. AMXX commands can be given in the console where you give the normal commads. These commands will have "amx_" prefixed in front of each command, very similar to metamod commands prefixed with "mm_". The installation post is linked below.

AMX Mod X Console Commands:

• amx_statsx_mode
• amx_on - Switches on AMX Plugin on the whole
  
• amx_off - Switches off AMX Mod X on the whole
• amx_pausecfg
  

  Usage: amx_pausecfg [name]
  
  

  
  
• amx_time_display - Displays times in the game
  
• amx_cancelvote - Cancels the result obtained from last voting
• amx_vote - Starts a voting with the given options

  Usage: amx_vote [Question] [Ans1] [Ans2] [Ans3] - The first attribute is question

• amx_voteban - Starts a voting for ban a player or not

  Usage: amx_voteban [Player Name]

• amx_votekick - Voting for kick a player or not to

  Usage: amx_votekick [Player Name]

• amx_votemap - Voting for map by showing upto 4 maps

  Usage: amx_votemap

• amx_imessage - Sends a timely message displayed on the top of the screen to all players

  Usage: amx_imessage [mesage with quotes]

• amx_scrollmsg - Sends a scrolling message at the bottom center to all players

  Usage: amx_scrollmsg [mesage with quotes]

• amx_csay - Sends a massage at the top center in color
  

  Ex: amx_csay green Hello!!! - Green is color and Hello!!! is the actual message, use quotes if the message contains spaces.
  

  
  
• amx_tsay - Sends a similar colored message but at the chat area

  Usage: amx_tsay [mesage with quotes]

• amx_psay - Sends private message
  

  Usage: amx_psay
  

  
  
• amx_chat - Sends message to Admins
• amx_say - Sends message to all

  Usage: amx_say [mesage with quotes]

• amx_plmenu_slapdmg - Sets slap damage for sequential slaps
• amx_plmenu_bantimes - Sets time for sequential bans
• amx_addclientmenuitem - Adds a menu item in Client Menu

  Usage: See it in the console itself

• amx_addmenuitem - Adds a menu item in amx Menu

  Usage: See it in the console itself

• amx_setlang - Sets the language
• amx_help - Shows help
• amx_last - Shows old connections saved
• amx_nick - Changes the nick name of any player
• amx_cfg - Takes a file as input cfg
• amx_map - Changes map, same as "changelevel" command

  Usage: amx_map [Map Name]

• amx_modules - Shows loaded modules
• amx_plugins - Shows loaded plugins
• amx_cvar - Changes the value of a cvar
• amx_who - Shows players list and their access
• amx_pause - Pauses the server
• amx_leave - Takes leave tags
• amx_slap - Slaps a player
• amx_slay - Slays a player
• amx_unban - Unbans a player
• amx_addban - Adds a player by his ip or id to ban list
• amx_banip - Adds a player to ban list by his ip
• amx_ban - Bans a player
• amx_kick - Kicks a player
• amx_addadmin - Adds a player to admin list in users.ini
• amx_reloadadmins - Reloads the admins in users.ini

AMX Mod X Console Commands for Menus

• amxmodmenu - Shows Main Menu of AMX Mod
• amx_menu - Shows the Clients Menu
• amx_langmenu - Shows Language Menu
• amx_cmdmenu - Shows Command Menu
• amx_cfgmenu - Shows Configuration Menu
• amx_speechmenu - Shows Speech Menu
• amx_cvarmenu - Shows Cvar Menu
• amx_kickmenu - Shows Kick Menu
• amx_banmenu - Shows Ban Menu
• amx_slapmenu - Shows Slap Menu
• amx_teammenu - Shows Team Menu
• amx_clcmdmenu - Shows Client Command Menu
• amx_mapmenu - Shows Map Menu
• amx_votemapmenu - Shows Vote Map Menu

There are many more commands for normal dedicated server. The full list of commands are listed in this post on CS1.6 Commands. Use quotes if the message or text contains spaces.

Left 4 Dead Save Game Files and Profiles - [Share Page]

This page is for sharing the Left 4 Dead game save files and profiles. You can share your Save files by Uploading to a file hosting website and giving the link here as a comment. Save files should be placed in your profile folder.

Share the save files even if it is not complete.

L4D is very popular for its multiplayer game. The hamachi networks would be share here L4D Hamachi Networks.

Share your views and any other information about the game too.

Left 4 Dead 2 Hamachi Networks and Tunngle Communities - [Share Page]

Note: Originally created for Left 4 Dead game, I am extending this to L4D2 - the new game in the series. Share your networks in the comments of this page.

This page is for sharing Left 4 Dead Hamachi Networks and Tunngle Communities. To share your Hamachi Networks, you need to comment here with the Network Name and Password. The networks created would be full in a very short time. So try to share L4D networks frequently.

Here are some of the networks you can create, let the Password be 1,

1. playl4d
2. playl4d1
3. playl4d2
4. playl4d3
5. playl4d4

Continue the series in the given format. And keep commenting here about the recent network created.

Keep the networks very active and keep sharing more and more hamachi networks very frequently. Tunngle Communities can be created with same names and password. Hamachi² is released. More features are available now.

Left 4 Dead game Hamachi Servers created with these networks should be kept active and live. You can share other information regarding the game here. For Left 4 Dead game profiles and save files, I will write another post.

Good Game PC Custom Hardware Configuration for High Performance Desktop

Game needs high bandwidth and good latency not only for gaming multiplayer in the internet, but also in the core PC. Better prefer Desktop to Laptop, if you are core gamer. Every component in the System will have some frequency deciding the latency and some memory deciding the bandwidth. Here are few.

These are the factors influencing the Game Performance.

1. Processor Cloak Frequency - Latency
   
2. Processor Cache Memory - Bandwidth kind of thing
   
3. Mother Board Front Side Bus Frequency or HyperTransport - L
   
4. Graphics Processor - L
   
5. Graphics Memory - B
   
6. RAM - B
   
7. Secondary Memory - B
   

AMD is considered faster as the memory controller is built inside the processor. The HyperTransport Technology is a complete replacement of the Front Side Bus - So there is a definite improvement in speed.

If you want to buy a Good PC for gaming India, let us calculate the cost for good configuration,

Processor:
AMD is good, Intel Core 2 Duo is good - Rs. 7000/- budget will get you a nice processor

Mother Board:
Compatible with good FSB or Frequency - Rs. 4000/-

Graphic Card:
512MB to 1GB with nice chip - Rs. 7000/-

RAM:
2 GB with 833MHz - Rs. 1800/-

Hard Disk:
Which ever you like with SATA - 250GB Rs. 2300/-

Rs. 23,000/- in total. Add Cabinet, Mouse and Keyboard Headset - Will be Rs. 25,000/-.

If you buy a Laptop with same price, you will get 1/3 of the performance.

Project IGI Mods for Statistics and Gameplay

Like in Counter Strike game, there can be good mods for the Project IGI. But I have searched for the mods and found none, either in SE or in ModDB website. There is only one reason for this. That is Single Player only mode. If there has been multiplayer support for the game, there would have been good number of mods for Project IGI. Both the version I'm Going in and Covert Strike have no Multiplayer mode to attract mod creators or developers.

I am not a person with great knowledge on mod creation. But I share some views of mine. The mods for single player can be useful if they are for showing the Statistics or if they change the game play. The game play may not be changed as the enemy units are fixed to a single location. The game was released in 2000. So compatibility may be an issue for creation of the mods.

If there are some,

1. The game play if changed can be like this at most. The player gets some additional powers if he had killed some number of enemies.
2. The player can fly if completed some task. Like a jet pack.
3. Long Jumping.
   

Finally, I was not able to find any mods for project IGI. Like to know if there are any. This posts look like digging back to 2000, but I just thought of writing one.

Gaming Chair and Table Designs Help in Stress Free Gaming

Gaming is very fast growing industry around the world on the web too. The Multiplayer Gaming has been so prominent in the recent past and Number of LAN Parties have been scheduled around the world. The LAN Parties go Online too.

Gaming for Fun is out-dated, though it is increasing as fast as Professional Gaming. There are gamers playing games seriously for more than 12 number of hours per day and the rest of the time, they are busy practicing. LAN games are popular in educational institutions around the world, as they have good infrastructure. Gaming when it became a profession, the factor influencing the gamers performance have been thought of. Optimizing these factors would make a lot of difference in the performance of the gamer. And hence the optimization of Hardware and facilities.

The important optimizations in second level include, a nice Platform, Hardware and Software Configuration. The first level comforts include, the gamers Clothing, Gaming Table, Mouse, Keyboard, Monitor and more importantly the Gamers Chair.

The Chair is so important because it should not restrict you in the following issues,

1. It must not restrict the hands in anyway possible.
2. Your elbows must be perfectly rested on the hands of the chair.
3. The height of the Chair hand-rests must be exactly equal to the keyboard.
4. The Chair should have completely friction free surface on the Hand-Rests.
5. While in the game, there are cases where you need to be rigid. Hence high friction for seating area is a must.
6. The chair should not have any additional parts.
7. The legs must be free to move forward and backward with out any sections of chair restricting the movement.
8. The ideal design is that the hand-rests move away from each other with a curve.

And about the Gaming Table,

1. Keep the table very rigid.
2. Keep the joints strong to restrict any movement.
3. Foot-rest is must.
4. Also make the foot-rest such that it wont restrict any movement of your feet.

These will bring a lot of change to your Gaming experience. And the upcoming designs include,

1. Vibrating Gaming Chair
2. Headset inclusion
3. Flexible Hand-rest design
4. Flexible Foot-rest design.

Gaming Industry is picking up and so are its requirements.

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 - Share your brief reviews

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 is recently released for PS3. You can share your views on the game. Or may discuss about crash problems of the game here. You can share your save game files too here, just by uploading the profile save files by zipping them and giving the link here as a comment.

About the Game Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, nice to hear from all of you. Comment about the game here.

Expect it for PC too later.

Write your Brief Reviews on Resident Evil 5

This post is for sharing your views on Resident Evil 5. Write a review briefly and keep it simple. Post it as a comment to this post. To get more reviews from this post, you can subscribe to the comments of this post. This will send you each comment posted here to your feed reader.

The game has some crash problems as reported in this blog. The crash problems are posted at RE5 Crashes. The Hamachi Networks for the Resident Evil 5 are given at RE5 Hamachi.

The game is most searched, yes it can be said so. You can write your views here, also if you want to share the game stuff here, you can do it. Just give the links to the Screenshots and Videos.

Moreover, there are posts here to share your game profiles and save files.

Risen Game - Share your brief reviews

This is the post for sharing briefs reviews of the game Risen developed by Piranha Bytes and published by Deep Silver, set to release on 2nd of October 2009. The game is only single player. So there is no way to play Risen Game Multiplayer.

The information on this game is not wide enough to make an impression on the game. The game is said to have different conceptual appearance with both night and day appearances. So the question is, can we take this as another Prince of Persia? No. The weaponry in this Risen is little different and diverse from the previously seen games.

Share your views on the game once you played the game. You can share the views here as a comment to this post. Keep your review simple. You can write an elaborate review for Risen too, but keep it simple. Also, check back to see more reviews of the game written by other gamers. You can subscribe to comments to get the reviews directly to you.

Aion Tower of Eternity Game Crashes

This post is for sharing your game crash problems in the game Aion: Tower of Eternity. The request is to give all the details of the Operating System and Game version along with other available details.

Give the details in this format:

1. Operating System using to run Aion
2. Driver and DirectX information if Windows
   
3. Any mods or addons using?
4. Graphic Card Info and Drivers
   
5. Where does the game crashes
6. Error report

This is not a confirmed support but you may find some information here and my find other facing same problems as you.

X-Men Multiplayer Game Development - [Expectation]

If there is development of the game X-Men for Multiplayer, its a great news. Its a nice relief to look at a different game with new storyline.

This could be one of the best games which can be made in to a multiplayer game. There are number of characters to select from and each character has its own unique power. No power is one sided if designed with nice restrictions and accesses. The much better part is that all the characters in the game are well known to gamers as there are series of movies released. And also, in a game, there is no good and bad sides. Its just a game.

The multiplayer game should feature a full supporting online multiplayer engine which makes the game as simple to join in servers as in Counter Strike. The game too looks very similar to the Counter Strike Warcraft Mod. Where the players gain powers of their own race and can attack other with those powers.

The game X-Men Multiplayer Game developed will gather a lot of gamers online in a server. After all X-Men Hamachi Networks also will be created. The movie fans turn gamers. Its a nice idea to develop one.

More over, a game after all need multiplayer for its own good, for popularity. However great it may be, the multiplayer games have their own popularity. If there was no single player game too, that's different, but as the game is released and as we are playing it, the X-Men Multiplayer Game is expected with a bunch of nice game features to play online and in Hamachi.

Game Storyline:
The main story is as per the movie. But the each side has a specific task to complete. The characters will share the sub-tasks to achieve the main task. Mean while, they help each other, they chat between themselves. Looks very nice to imagine.

Red Alert 3 Hamachi Networks

This is the post exclusively written for sharing the Hamachi Networks of the game Red Alert 3. You can share your networks here as a comment, or you can create the given networks here.

These networks would be full in very short time. So better create them one by one, else these would be full at once.

Create with Password 1.

1. playra
2. playra1
3. playra2
4. playra3
5. playra4

Create these networks and put the password as 1. Keep the networks active and live. Create more networks in the same series one by one. Comment here to share your networks or to let others know which networks are active in this series.

Give your Networks information in the following format,

• Network Name: ------
• Password: -------

Keep on updating the networks. Join for all the version of the game and indicate the version while playing the game.

If Prince of Persia Multiplayer is Developed

Multiplayer games are the most interesting and most attractive gameplay viz. There are a lot of multiplayer games developed in the past. Notable ones are Age of Empires, Wolfenstein, Call of Duty, Half-life, Need For Speed. There are many more I have not included here and may be more popular to these. Apart from those I have listen above from past, there are story lines like Harry Potter, Transformers, X-Men which can be made into very good multiplayer games. The games Harry Potter and Transformers are made in to multiplayer as said. But are they worth playing multi-player?

The games like Prince of Persia are greatly admired for single player. The games like this are so nicely design and written that, it just looks like a real life in action. And the task is so clean and nice, just move on. And thinking of a multiplayer design is not so "Aaaaah?" kind of thing.

So lets think of it,
The easier and non-convincing game can be like this,

The different characters would be focusing on a multi-task scenario. Each character is assigned some task and the result will be shared between the characters. In this design, a character is assigned definite tasks. The other characters are assigned some other tasks too. But the key point here is that they cannot exchange or share each others tasks. They only share the result.

But there is much better game design, where the story line is completely different,

The characters have some tasks to do in a scenario. These tasks are not assigned, they are shared. So here, not just the result is shared, but also the tasks are shared. It becomes a complete, real-time strategy game. The strategy is like World of Warcraft, where you try to reach the enemy in different paths. This is so because, both the enemies and allies are human players, not the computer or bots. Its a responsibility of the enemies to restrict the prince and his allies by covering all the paths towards the destination of the prince. And it is the task of the prince to reach his destination. You can use diversion strategies, combined attack strategies, and all kinds of strategies you can get in to your mind.

The game looks very similar to Counter Strike Capture the Flag Mod, but the biggest difference is that the characters fight between themselves with a Swords and Bows.

The latest game in the Prince of Persia series, POP2008 has two characters, they had a very nice chance to make the game multiplayer, that would have been really nice. But never mind, a nicely designed game is always awaited and good to develop one for the developers and good to game for the gamers.

Aion Tower of Eternity Hamachi Networks

This post is for sharing the Hamachi Networks of the game Aion Tower of Eternity. You can create the networks I have suggested here, or you can share your own networks.

Share like this:

• Network Name: ------
• Pass: ------

If you want to create new networks for the game Aion Tower of Eternity, you can create the following Hamachi networks,

1. playaion
2. playaion1
3. playaion2
4. playaion3
5. playaion4

These networks should be created with password 1.

If you want to know more about how to play games on hamachi, view this post on What is Hamachi.

Age of Empires Conquerors 1.0c & 1.0e Scenarios Server IPs [Share Post]

This post is exclusively created for sharing the Age of Empires The Conquerors Expansion Server IPs, mainly for Scenarios and can be used for sharing other games too. If you have Created the Game server, just share the IP here and wait for other to join.

You generally share the IP addresses in online chatting. Along with those places, you can share the same information here too. The better part will be that, one day, you can share your game information without logging in into any accounts.

Points to Note:

1. Share here too, not here alone.
   
2. Don't expect much till this post gets some age.
3. This is easy share method, where there is no need logins.

Just post the game information once and that must be enough. This post is all AOE Games and versions, not just conquerors. Give the game and version in your details.

Multiplayer Games are highly unique different than Single Player Games

Q.  You play PC games?
I guess you do.

Q. Single Player or Multiplayer?
If you say single player, you are starting. If you say Multiplayer, you are a Gamer.

Graphics are not important in Multiplayer Games. Counter Strike is the best example. How better the graphics may be, no one wants to play a Multiplayer Game if the game is not so convincing. In the game counter strike, the player tend to play multiplayer a lot more than single player. Also, the bots in single player mode may spoil your game both accuracy wise and strategy wise.

So graphics are important for Singleplayer games and an extra feature for Multiplayer games. So this makes the design of Multiplayer and Singleplayer a lot different from each other. A game with both multiplayer and singleplayer support is very rare to get fame for both modes. Even if it did, only one of Multiplayer and Singleplayer is known to be more successful.

More over, multiplayer game now a days is just go on shooting one another or go on racing with all the arrow keys pressed with lot of anger. It takes a lot more than singleplayer mode to make a multiplayer game. The story line of the multiplayer game need to be written very carefully to make a nice game. The characters must be set some way. I will write a post on multiplayer gaming in games like Prince of Persia.

Is Fallen Earth another Diablo!

Firstly, both the games are very different and are good in their own way. I just felt that the game is Diablo for a small moment when I saw Bandanas, Jackets, skill levels, Dexterity etc... later came to know that this game is Fallen Earth and the former was Diablo. But, I always feel that all the games are being repeated no matter who the developer is and what the game is about. But if the games are really good, then there is no problem to start over with it.

Need For Speed, its a very nice series with lots of nice looks and features, but the game just goes on getting some modifications rather than introduction of some new features. The reason for a nice response from the gamers for few games in its series is the same, lack of innovation. Off course, its after all one series so the games must be in a single theme, so lets take this one off. One thing is that, if someone asks me what to add in the next game, its just a blank face you can see, but there are games being made with lot of innovation.

FIFA, there was a post on the official forums. The thread says stop playing FIFA until you get a nice modification of the game and not a re-release kind of stuff. And that thread looks convincing.

MMORPG's, I guess there is no need to mention actually. Somebody was saying that, before playing MMORPGs the brain is an egg, and after playing one, it turns into omelet. Sounds convincing.

So whats after all creativity! Games are being made from movies and movies are being made from games. This is good, I should say, but not all like this. There are good number of games released long before with very nice story line and creative design. Prince of Persia was a nice game with simplest storyline and still most attractive. Diablo when it was released was a very nice and attractive game too. The lack of games with unique identity would decrease the interest in games. Today, a lot of games are played online and offline not because the taste of all the gamers is different, but for the games themselves are not so different. Now, the games just go like, modify this one and release it again. Not so cool.

Need For Speed Shift PC Patch - LAN and Mouse Support

Need For Speed Shift is the latest in its series released for PC. Many of the gamers might have been waiting for the Patches of the game for many reasons. Now there is a patch for PC. Here is the Download Page from EA's Need For Speed Website, from where you can download the PC Patch for the game Need For Speed Shift for different versions and languages - NFS Shift PC Patch.

This patch is said to be useful for the LAN play of the game NFS Shift and Mouse Support for easier Menu Navigation. This might fix some of the other problems which are reported around the Web, if there are any and if it is capable. And what does this mean, use it and you'll know it.

This is the only patch available at that website. In the same page, you can also see the demo download for the Game Need For Speed Shift is also available.

If you want to share any information on the patch, you can comment here and share what you want other to know about it.

Red Faction Guerrilla Game Crashes and Problems

If you find any problems or crashes with the game Red Faction Guerrilla you can share them here, and you may find some help from other gamers who might have fixed their issues. If you have solved any game problems previously, you can share them here.

The game crashes can be minimized by following small tips.

1. Don't use any applications that interfere with the game.
2. Use the drivers given with the official disc, not new, not old.
3. nVIDIA Physx is said to cause some problems, try to change its version.
4. Don't use any Trainers or Cheat applications for Red Faction Guerrilla.

If you are facing crash problems, you can give the details about your,

1. Operating System
2. DirectX
3. Graphic Card and its Drivers
4. Using any mods for the game?

Here are some General Solutions and Fixes at the Official Community.

Single player: If you want to share your game saved profiles, you can go to Game Profiles post.
Multi-player: You can get the Hamachi Networks for this game at Hamachi Networks.

Resident Evil 5 Game Crashes and Problems

This is the post for you to share any information about the Resident Evil 5 Game crashes. You may find some solution here, thats all I can say.

There can be many reasons for a game to crash in the middle. The problem can be with the application used to launch the game. The problem can be with the OS compatibility, but I can say this is very very rare as the game is tested on all OSs. The problem can be in any modifications of the game if you are using them. The problem can also be with the game itself with lot of bugs, which can be taken as the rarest case.

If you are using any different executable to launch the game which is intended to benefit you, it may be corrupted. More over, if you are trying to run any Cheats or Trainers for Resident Evil 5, those also affects your game application.

Please give the details of,

1. Operating System you are using.
2. DirectX Version you are using.
3. Graphic Card you are using.
4. Driver versions for Graphic Card.
5. Are you using any Mod for Resident Evil 5?

I cannot be sure that you will get an answer here, but take a little while to report the problem and subscribe to rest of the comments via email, that may help.

If some one found a solution for the game crash which they have experienced previously, please let others know. Your solution may be helpful for others too.

Bionic Commando Save Game Files and Completed Profiles- Share Page

There are cases when gamers lose their on going game save files because of disk clean up, or some reason. There are also cases where the gamers may be playing game in two different PCs, one at home and one at the college. In cases like this, you can backup your Save Files, take your save files with you to your home PC or college PC, so that you can continue your game from where you left it. This post is for sharing save game files of Bionic Commando Game.

The game Bionic Commando has released quite a while ago. Its a game battle between Re-Armed and Elite Forces in short. If you have finished the game by now, which will be the case with many gamers, you can share your game profiles here. You can share the half-completed Save Game files here even if you have not completed it completely. These save files can be downloaded by the other gamers who find it difficult to cross a particular stage in the game.

You can zip the save files from the folder where the Game saves the files. Zipped package may be uploaded to a file sharing web host and you can give the link here for the profile download. Give the link in the comment box.

If you have any questions you can comment here. Keep giving feedback for me. And if you have tested a save file package here, feel free to share information about it.

Bionic Commando Hamachi Networks and Tunngle Communities

This is the post for sharing the Hamachi Networks and Tunngle Communities for the Game Bionic Commando. You can share your networks and communities here by commenting to this post. Give the network name and password clearly. For those who want to join, note that they are case sensitive.

Here are some of the networks wit password 1.

1. playbc
2. playbc1
3. playbc2
4. playbc3
5. playbc4 - Create when the above networks are full.
6.  Series goes on like this - keep on creating

When you have created a network in the above list. See that you give the indication here, else others may not know that the network exist. Also create these Communities in Tunngle and share the same, name and password here.

Keep the network active. Keep giving feedback. Share more and more networks. You can share any other information about the game too. If you want to share your game profiles or save files, a post exists. Share them there. You can use the search to get to your destination post.

Share your Order of War Game Save Files and Profiles

This is the post for you to share the Order of War Game's Save Files and Profiles. The game is schedules to release on 22nd of September 2009. I guess the core gamers may finish it in few days. When you have finished completing the game in single player mode, you can share your completed profile here.

Just find the save files of the game. They may be in the My Documents or Game installation folder for any game. And then zip them up. Upload to a file sharing website. Give the link here.

For the other, you can download the files from the link, or you can upload your own files even if have the game completed only till 50% or even less.

Keep giving feedback to me, or ask anything. I'll be here.

Order of War Hamachi Networks and Tunngle Communities

Order of War is a new game scheduled to release on 22 September of 2009. You can play the game if you are 16+, that's what the rating says. This post is for sharing Hamachi Networks for the game Order of War. I will give you some created networks, I will also give you some networks which are to be created. The password for all the networks is 1. Just keep the networks active.

Here are the networks with password 1.

1. playoow
2. playoow1
3. playoow2
4. playoow3
5. playoow4 - Create when the above networks are full.
6. Series goes on - keep creating next networks
   

 These networks are for Hamachi. But I want you to create the same networks or Communities for Tunngle too. When you have created, comment here to put the community name and password. Also, even for hamachi, if you are sharing a network, comment here with the network name and password. This is required because, gamers can't just go on searching for active communities. But when you have commented with a network, they can easily know the network creation time will be willing to join the network as it is new.

Share your Damnation Save Files

This is the post for you to share the save files of Damnation Game. You can share them even if they are complete or incomplete. Just take out the save files from the saved folder and zip them to upload. Upload them to any of the file hosting websites and give the link here.

Also indicate till what stage did you complete the game. Tell that the profile is 100% complete if you have finished everything to do, all the tasks in the game. I guess many might have completed the game with in days. Share it here and it may help other gamers.

This profiles are helpful mainly for those who have finished the game and lost their profiles in some disc clean up. For new gamers, completing a game by yourself is a nice idea as you maintain the interest in the game. If you are using the completed profiles, you may lose interest. But doesn't matter, you can just look at the profile if you need some help.

Damnation Hamachi Networks and Tunngle Communities

Damnation is a both Single player and Multiplayer Game. Multiplayer is always nice to play than single player. As single player consists of little missions and bots alone. But if you are good at single player and finished the game, you can share your profile here in this blog. Just upload the save files and give the link here.

This post is for sharing the Hamachi Networks and Tunngle Communities for Damnation Game. The networks are given below.

The password for all the networks is 1.

1. playdamnation
2. playdamnation1
3. playdamnation2
4. playdamnation3
5. playdamnation4 - Create when the other networks are full - Share your own
6. Go on creating

Keep the password 1 for all the networks. You can create Tunngle communities with same name.


The  networks wont be active for much time. Try to keep them active for longest possible. Also, share your own networks when these networks are full. If you want to chat something, you can use the comment box. Use the same comment box to share all of your networks.