Is Xlink Kai allergic to upgrade 2.0?

[Drakkenmensch]

Okay, first time today I try to race with someone over kai since upgrading to 2.0 - my PSP keeps freezing and shutting down JUST as it's about to detect the game I want to connect to. Searches normally, but if I'm about to detect a game, WHAM it shuts down. Hosting doesn't work, nobody sees my games.

After reconfiguring my ad hoc wireless link entirely, same problem. After turning kai off, my computer was forced into a reboot.

Had anyone been able to connect to other players to race since upgrading the PSP OS to 2.0?

[eLhabib]

yes, I played a couple of games after upgrading. no problems here, except for the 'normal' occasional freeze when I browse through the multiplayer game setup too fast...

lets test this tomorrow, huh?

[Drakkenmensch]

*nods* might have been my computer in dire need of a reboot. Thanks for confirming for me that it STILL works. I feel reassured now :)

[lunar]

Drak your topic title scared the poo out of me for a moment there. :wink: Glad it seems to be OK. Being a cautious, Luddite sort of fellow I was going to wait until I knew 2.0 was OK with Kai b4 upgrading - but went ahead anyway and its well worth it - nice to get screenshots off gamespot to use as wallpaper anyway. I did attempt to post this from the PSP browser but I was halfway through the first sentence when I realised there are other things I need to do today. Of course as you can see its possible to make much longer and more irrelevant posts on a PC.................

anyway I should get the chance to get on Kai a bit more this week.... hope to see you and El there.... assuming there aren`t any probs with 2.0. That freeze and shut down thing has been there with 1.5 too. Sometimes its a duff connection and sometimes I just have to slow down a bit with the menus, as El says. The other night I was in a game and three or four people`s PSPs crashed simaltaneously as we tried to connect. It was quite amusing in a tragi-comic sort of way.

*departs to polish Qirex and load bombs*

[Drakkenmensch]

I think my PC was the real cause of the problem in this case - when I turned off kai the last time, it forced my PC into a spontaneous reboot, which was especially odd.

[eLhabib]

OK everybody, no need to get all worried by this thread's title. We just had a 3 hour session of purE, including even one mind-boggling, eye-burning DESCENSION TOURNAMENT with four players (Drakkenmensch, Sparks, Markvamp, and my humble self), proving that the version 2.0 upgrade DOES NOT CAUSE ANY TROUBLE with xlink kai multiplayer.

enjoy! 8)

[Drakkenmensch]

More good news on top of that - my WIFI adaptor in my PSP did not overheat a single time, and my PSP did not freeze and shutdown once either! Neither was I thrown out even once of a race lobby while waiting for the game to start.

It was in fact my compy all along that was the problem - the PSP online components show VAST improvement in stability with 2.0! So go ahead and update without fear!

[lunar]

and everyone in the UK hoping to play online with a USB shouldn`t wait too long to get one. The only one in the UK which I found easily available is a DWL122 - and this is a discontinued product - although they`re easy to get atm. This might not last after the PSP comes out here. A USB is definitely the cheapest way to tunnel your PSP, but there really aren`t that many models which XLink guarantees to work and which you can still buy in the UK.

A lot of the newer USB adapters - the Linksys and Buffalo ones for example, don`t work too well with Kai, if at all. apparently.

of course I might be crap at searching the net for adapters, but I wouldn`t want anyone to miss getting the chance to fly into one of my bombs. :D

[Drakkenmensch]

... or miss the chance to cross the finish line and suddenly notice from the huge explosion that I hid a bomb right behind it ;)

[eLhabib]

...or miss the (as Drakkenmensch named it) 'ELHABIB QUAKE EXPERIENCE [TM]'' :wink:

[element42]

dammit, will you quit talking about multiplayer online pure like this?! It's making me soooo jealous. :evil:
less than one month to go....

[Kyro]

hi, drakken
hi, elhabib

i ve just discover this site and found that you were in the forum
see you soon on kai ;)

- - -
Kyr0 on kai

[eLhabib]

hi kyro :D

[Drakkenmensch]

Heya Kiro! Nice of you to join our little gaggle of geeks ;)