PvPGN (Player vs Player Gaming Network) is a

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project offering emulation of various gaming network servers. It is published under the

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and based upon bnetd. It supports most features for

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's Battle.net "classic" games ('' Diablo'', ''

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'', '' Diablo II: Lord of Destruction'', ''

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'', '' StarCraft: Brood War'', '' Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition'', '' Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos'', '' Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne''). It also offers basic support for Westwood Online clients ('' Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun'', '' Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2'', '' Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge''). Westwood support is still at an experimental state.

Typical uses

A PvPGN Server can be used: *When wanting to host a local tournament with local users and ladders. *When wanting to maintain a local community of friends rather than playing on Battle.net. *For people who want to play on a LAN but with Battle.net-like statistics. Various cyber cafes use a PvPGN server for this purpose. *For people who want to play on a server within their country or local area, so as to reduce lag.

Supported protocols

The list of supported clients and their minimum version required is: * Battle.net ** '' Diablo I'' 1.09 ** ''

'' 1.16.1.1 ** '' Starcraft: Brood War'' 1.16.1.1 ** '' Warcraft II Battle.Net Edition'' 2.02 ** ''

'' 1.09 and 1.10 (and unofficially 1.11b, 1.12a) ** '' Diablo II: Lord of Destruction'' 1.09 and 1.10 (and unofficially 1.11b, 1.12a, 1.13c) ** '' Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos'' 1.21 ** '' Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne'' 1.21 (and 1.22.0.6328) *'' Westwood'' Online ** ''

Command & Conquer ''Command & Conquer'' (''C&C'') is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game franchise created and originally developed by Westwood Studios and currently owned by Electronic Arts. The first game was one of the earliest of the RTS genre, itself ba ...

'' Win95 edition v1.04a (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** '' Command & Conquer: Red Alert'' Win95 edition v2.00 and v3.03 (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** '' Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun'' v2.03 ST-10 (Alpha in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** '' Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Firestorm'' (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** '' Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2'' 1.006 (Alpha in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** '' Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge'' v1.001 (Alpha in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** '' Command & Conquer: Renegade'' (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** ''

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'' v1.02b (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** '' Nox Quest'' v1.02b (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** ''

Dune 2000 ''Dune 2000'' is a real-time strategy video game, developed by Intelligent Games and published by Westwood Studios in 1998 for Microsoft Windows. It was later ported to the PlayStation in 1999. It is a partial remake of ''Dune II'', which is lo ...

'' v1.06 (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99) ** '' Emperor: Battle for Dune'' v1.09 (not supported in PvPGN 1.8.2, Beta in PvPGN 1.99)

Supported platforms

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4.x 5.x 6.x 7.x 8.x *

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2.4 and later *

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10.2 and up *

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5x/6x kernel,

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* Platform support should be easy on any POSIX compatible system. (Tested on 32 and 64 bit platforms, various integer byte endings, etc.)

Code style and development

PvPGN is

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, licensed under the

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. It is written in the

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; its source code is hosted in a CVS repository. PvPGN is mature and highly scalable - a single server instance is capable of ove
21,000 real-time connections

C++ branch

Starting with PvPGN 1.99, a new branch was created and work is underway to incrementally convert the codebase to

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. The new branch is hosted in

Apache Subversion Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name ''svn'') is a version control system distributed as open source under the Apache License. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files su ...

rather than CVS.

External links

* *{{wikia, pvpgn Free network-related software Free emulation software Server emulators