Warp Pipe Adds 8-Player Mario Kart, 1080 Avalanche Support

Thanks to the Warp Pipe site for its announcement that the latest 0.3.1 version of their Warp Pipe tunneling software for GameCube has been released, with Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X flavors now sporting a bugfix allowing a full complement of Mario Kart: Double Dash!! competitors ("you can play with up to 8 players via two Cubes"), and partial support for new GameCube snowboarding title 1080 Avalanche, albeit with "some stability issues", for this software which "enables you to play LAN-supported GameCube games over the Internet for free with other GameCube gamers."

Lag Issues

[Prien715]

I'm expecting a Gamecube tomorrow so I'm curious. I've heard there's lots of issues with lag in this program. Has it been resolved or lessened in any way?

XLink

[irate_canadian]

Forget Warppipe. Get Xlink instead. They're just about to do the second phase of beta testing for their new client, called "Kai" and then it'll have full Gamecube support.

The release available now, RC2 Omega supports all Xbox games that have system link capability, and the new one improves on the UI, the lag issues, and adds GC support to boot.

I don't know why anyone would use Warppipe in a few weeks, when Xlink will be able to play both Xbox AND GC with the same program, faster, and (although I'm not 100% sure) will support all GC games initially, instead of having to wait for support.

Go check out the site. When Kai is released to the public, it's going to blow Warppipe away.

This is advertising

[superpulpsicle]

Does /. not have any real video game news. What is all this constant marketing of gamecube and xbox games. It's like a conspiracy going on.

1.) gamecube 3rd party slip many dollar bills into /. pocket
2.) /. post article
3.) !profit