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segadreamcaster
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Thu Sep 23, 2004 5:56 pm
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Ok guys, Seems we may have a bit of a problem.....Blast and I tried to play a game last night and were unable to do so as the persion trying to connect to the host received the following message "Error retrieving IP address"

I have since tried hosting with the Dreamcast and entering with the PC version but the same message appears. I have not been able to have a DC player join a PC hosted room as this has never worked in the past anyway...in fact...not sure if anyone knows....but I have tried a few times without joy to get a PC - DC game going....but its never worked....the best that can be done is to have a PC join a DC hosted room and then you can only go as far as the chat lobby and it freezes when you try to start the game.

We also tried to play again tonight with the same problem occuring

Anyway, back to the point...it would seem that the game is down at the moment, although we have no idea if its just a stop thats been pu on the DC version or if its down totally...Blast has said he is going to email gamespy tomorrow on the matter (not mentioning the DC version of course) just to see if we can find out the status of the server...I may also send an email.

If anyone can shed any light or do any further testing please do so...if anyone want to check the PC version...send me a PM and I'll see if we can do a check..as I own both the DC and PC versions

Lets not over react just yet...but this is obviously not a good sign

Cheers, Craig
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Blast
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Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:31 pm
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Thanks for posting that mate Smile

Im gonna leave you to do the email mate didnt get much luck on DC Sad

Only extra thing I can add is this. When online I tried to pull up sega's stats by clicking on his name, this also didnt work. Sega also tried to call up my stats with the same result, didnt work. The odd thing here is we can both call up our own stats on the main page before you enter a game lobby. This would make sense for me as I have a VMU saved char for the game BUT sega doesnt and has no save file. This leaves me to belive that our own stats are held in our Gamespy login. So we can login and call up our own info but not another players. Seems there is no gamespy login acct interaction on PBA at present.

Wait and see what happens now.

Laters
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fallout
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Posted:
Fri Sep 24, 2004 2:06 am
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Oh

I dont like to read that Mad

I try to test it by myself today !

When this game not come back , then yust a little message to all peopel
that have the game , but dont play it ... THX for not playing the game online

It was vbery hard to play so many games with Blast and segadc fun but hard ....
I hope that was not in vain Crying or Very sad
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Chile
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Fri Sep 24, 2004 5:54 am
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so its gone? that really sucks. Crying or Very sad
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fallout
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Fri Sep 24, 2004 6:15 am
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It's not gone ! I was on the Server for 1 hour Razz U can login with ur
game Spy account and create a game room ....

I think I will schedule a game for today or tommorow to check
the status of the server , maybe it was only a little bug Smile and
they fixed it .. I hope so Neutral
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Blast
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Fri Sep 24, 2004 7:29 am
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fallout wrote:
It's not gone ! I was on the Server for 1 hour Razz U can login with ur
game Spy account and create a game room ....

I think I will schedule a game for today or tommorow to check
the status of the server , maybe it was only a little bug Smile and
they fixed it .. I hope so Neutral


Hi Fallout. Yeh if you read Sega's post properly it already tells you this. When you make a room and wait for players thats fine but when another player joins and start is pressed only the host gets connected to the main game room. The other player gets the " unable to retrive IP " message. So nowyou cannot talk play or even talk on PBA Sad . The only way to communicate is by game room title lol. Lets hope it gets fixed.

I wouldent be able to play today but I would try tomorow if you schedual for then. Let me know how you get on if you try today.

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segadreamcaster
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Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:28 am
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Hi,

Ok well I just sent an email...but there was no real section that I could send it to...closest thing I could use was "Game arcade" as the area of support required so I had to make do with that...this happens so often its annoying!

So anyway an email has been sent regarding the matter....sent as a PC user....not a DC user....wouldnt want to make that mistake.... Laughing

If anyone else can contact them saying about the problem that would be great...but in the meantime I will let you know of any responses

Cheers, Craig
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darkooga
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Posted:
Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:13 pm
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that would suck big balls
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Blast
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Posted:
Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:33 am
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Thanks for sending that mail mate hope you get a response Smile . Its realy bloody annoying when there is no section to send comments about a specific subject. To be honest when I look at the Gamespy website you wouldent even have known that they host a ton of online games, hardly seems to be mentioned at all.

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segadreamcaster
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Sat Sep 25, 2004 3:48 pm
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OK, well they are listening at least....just replied to an email which was asking me for more details of the problem and the software I have on my PC, such as firewalls etc...so hopefully I will hear back again soon

More news as it comes in...lol
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Blast
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Sun Sep 26, 2004 7:09 am
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Yeh its good to see they are listening Smile tell them its not your bloody PC cus we know it aint GRRR. Look forward to hearing the next reply.

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fallout
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Posted:
Mon Oct 04, 2004 2:59 am
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Hey Sedc

Can you post the email addie for me ? !
I think when only one peep write them emails about
the server status they dont listen Neutral

And we also should dont stop
connecting to the server !!!!

I dont want that they think no one play
there . soooo write em a PM
please when we can meet

Thx
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kingofgrills
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Posted:
Wed Oct 06, 2004 5:25 pm
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Is the PBA Bowling server still down? I haven't had a chance to check today.
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Blast
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Posted:
Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:37 am
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kingofgrills wrote:
Is the PBA Bowling server still down? I haven't had a chance to check today.


Well you cant check the server anyway without having another person to play against as the game dont crash til you try to start a game. We will try and get a test done soon.

Whats the latest segadreamcaster?. Any reply from Gamespy?. Have you managed to do a server test lately?.

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segadreamcaster
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Posted:
Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:55 pm
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Hi,

Well the last email I received said the following:

Sorry, but we are not able to help you anything to do with games. Please
contact the game maker for more help on this. GameSpy provided the in game
technology, but you need to contact the game maker for support. You can find
more information on our in game technologies by visiting http://www.gamespy.net

So basically they are passing it on...not much help....can anybody else send an email....im getting a bit sick of trying to make them listen

As for testing...no havent done it recently, but to be honest I think this game will soon need to be removed from the online games list...I cant really see it coming back Crying or Very sad
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