Retro Night: Starcraft Broodwar

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Start: Tue - June 4, 2013 @ 6:00pm PDT

End: 7:00pm PDT

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What better way to celebrate Retro Tuesdays than with playing a classic game, Starcraft: Broodwar. This game was a staple of my LAN parties until Starcraft 2 was launched and I have been really wanting to play it. So do you, this is why you need to join us and play it :D

Ill create a "cheerfulghost.com" Broodwar game with a password I will hand out in the comments the night of the event.

I will be playing as the Zerg.

Feel free to join us even if you can't make the 6pm start time, you can always catch the next game as I plan on running a few matches. Start with us VS bots and some team VS team matches if people are up for it.

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jdodson

vdogmr25

Travis

Travis Admin wrote on 05/26/2013 at 06:17pm

I'll join in for a bit. I'll go Terran because they're easy.

vdogmr25 wrote on 05/27/2013 at 07:40pm

I can probably do this. I'll either go Terran or Protoss depending on my mood.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 05/28/2013 at 04:55pm

I just reinstalled it on my PC. Wow. You know 640x480 doesn't age well at all.

The base game is solid, but CAN'T A BROTHER GET 1024x768?

vdogmr25 wrote on 06/04/2013 at 06:24pm

I'm trying to get Battle.net to work, but I keep getting an error saying it can't identify my version. I downloaded the game through Battle.net, and patched to 1.16. Any one else have a similar issue?

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/04/2013 at 06:27pm

I did it a few days ago and all was well. I try it again tonight and see whats up.

vdogmr25 wrote on 06/04/2013 at 06:27pm

Just figured it out. If you're on Windows 7, use run as administrator.

Travis Admin wrote on 06/05/2013 at 12:07am

I'm seriously struggling here. Using Administrator, compatibility mode (Vista and XP), etc. It just crashes as soon as I launch it. I played it a while back, since I upgraded to Windows 8, so I know it's not that. I tried a new display driver, nothing.

WTF.

I'll keep at it.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/05/2013 at 12:13am

So I am on Win 7. Upgraded game downloaded from Battle.net.

Compat mode XP SP3, Disable Visual Themes & Disable Desktop Compression.

Lemmie try launching it.

Yeah, it launched ok. Menus look like crap, game is fine.

Travis Admin wrote on 06/05/2013 at 12:25am

OK got it working. I'm not sure what changed. I decided to clear all the changes and go back to how it was before I started, so no compat, no Administrator mode, nothing, and now it works. Go figure.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/05/2013 at 12:37am

:D Nice.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/05/2013 at 12:55am

game room: cheerfulghost.com
password: zergrush

vdogmr25 wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:01am

I can't join. It says the latency is too high.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:01am

Strange. Ok. Ill create another game.

Travis Admin wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:03am

Are you sure about that password? It won't let me in.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:03am

I just made a new game and it doesn't need a password.

Travis Admin wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:04am

Yep, getting latency too high

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:04am

Do you both have SC2? Maybe we can just play that.

vdogmr25 wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:05am

Same error. Are your ports properly set up?

vdogmr25 wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:05am

I have SC2.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:05am

Yeah, same thing I do for any other game.

Travis Admin wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:05am

You have to port forward if you haven't

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080126183633AAQOrAJ

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:06am

What a bunch of bullshit. I don't remember it being this hard to play on Battle.net back in the day.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:07am

Great, lets play that.

Travis Admin wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:07am

Yeah I have it, switching. :)

Travis Admin wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:08am

It has to optimize and update and stuff, not sure how long that will take.

Travis Admin wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:09am

Now, on another topic, I wish I had that battle.net launcher :)

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:19am

I am in SC2 with the lobby open.

vdogmr25 wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:21am

Me too.

Travis Admin wrote on 06/05/2013 at 01:24am

You guys will have to have fun without me. I have so many updates to download for this thing it will be hours before it's playable.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/05/2013 at 02:03am

Yeah we got a game in, vdogmr25 is pretty damn good.

I am going to do a special SC2 event, now with spawn copies and all we can all enjoy the Heart of the Swarm fun from even the Starter Edition. Which is pretty awesome.

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