General Woah, I just realized something.

[Roscoe 9]

During the downtime I was playing the Section 8 MP Demo and after I went to quit an there was that whole "raise your hype" thing for when the game launches but there was something that caught my eye. "X-Server: Host even bigger battles (32 Players) for the Xbox 360 console on your Windows PC." I was thinking back when we were talking about cracking into Destiny but we couldn't because it is an always-online game. What if we somehow found this X-Server application and reversed engineered it to host dedicated servers for any game. Sadly when I meant by "What if we somehow found this..." I really mean it does not exist anymore because nobody mirrored the download nor is the games/developers site are alive anymore. Brought hopes up and then slammed dunk them down to the curb.

 

[Thunder 468]

I've never heard of that game, however that server thing is interesting.  I'm surprised MS allowed that.  Unfortunately for destiny, the only people who would have the server code/binaries are bungie/activision.  They aren't just going to hand out their proprietary software.  The only case I could see anything happening would be if Destiny was released for PC with a content creation kit of some kind because that would have an offline mode. 

 

TL;DR Hosting servers for console games when we don't have the source or binaries is for our sake impossible.

[Roscoe 9]

Nowadays MS is using Azure which is more secure an more for developers only whereas the X-Server is only specific to Section 8. Destiny is using a different architecture since it is a newer game an technology has grown. This game is an '09 game but obviously from developing the Xbox One they are more towards cloud computing rather than a traditional method where you either hosted dedicated servers on Windows PCs or you had a room filled with 360s running server software set at a very cold temperature to keep them from overheating.

[Not Dual 17]

This was a great game back in the day and being able to host your own server was a lot of fun. X-server required game for windows live though and that thing was utter crap and because the game flopped i doubt you will find anybody with the required files to get it running.

[Roscoe 9]

This was a great game back in the day and being able to host your own server was a lot of fun. X-server required game for windows live though and that thing was utter crap and because the game flopped i doubt you will find anybody with the required files to get it running.

Yeah, I only just put this up here just to kind of give an idea about if it was maybe possible and to kind of show that this was the first game (I believe) to have Dedicated Servers before games like Gears of War 3 started jumping onto the Dedicated Server train. I enjoy these games that have demos that just lasts forever with you so one day you may actually get the game to support the devs/publishers (even though I have no idea where the money is going nowadays since both devs and publishers disappeared but then again there is probably only used versions of it so there is really no money going anywhere anyway besides to the stores like gamestop and such).

[Not Dual 17]

Decided to look for the xbox 360 GFWL files but i ended up only finding the ps3 server files http://www.fileplanet.com/210846/210000/fileinfo/Section-8-PS3-Dedicated-Server

[Roscoe 9]

Decided to look for the xbox 360 GFWL files but i ended up only finding the ps3 server files http://www.fileplanet.com/210846/210000/fileinfo/Section-8-PS3-Dedicated-Server

Yeah, I tried to search quite a bit but only saw nothing but pc patches and that only ps3 server files. I guess it was just a nice idea to think like what if we did have it or something but it would've been pointless anyways just like how Thunder pointed it out.

[Teancum 221]

During the downtime I was playing the Section 8 MP Demo and after I went to quit an there was that whole "raise your hype" thing for when the game launches but there was something that caught my eye. "X-Server: Host even bigger battles (32 Players) for the Xbox 360 console on your Windows PC." I was thinking back when we were talking about cracking into Destiny but we couldn't because it is an always-online game. What if we somehow found this X-Server application and reversed engineered it to host dedicated servers for any game.

As someone who intereviewed these guys several times for XBLA Fans, I can tell you this feature got completely cut. The reasons why were not disclosed to us, but the devs were disappointed because they thought it would be a big selling point.

 

Shame, too. Really great game for 15 bucks.

[Not Dual 17]

I uploaded the xbox 360 xserver files if anybody wants them  https://mega.co.nz/#!1IpFXabR!huqxEkn6a4WGJWpiRWSR6QH96H2pkLP_MM2OzwNittA

[0xdeafcafe 226]

Could we avoid thread titles that look like they are from Upworthy?