March 30, 2005

Gran Turismo 4 Online



GamesRadar has a writeup on how you can trick Gran Turismo 4 into thinking its on a LAN, when actually you're playing against opponents on the internet. It uses a program called Xlink Kai which serves as gateway software using your PC.

We had a 40ms ping time and it was still annoyingly jerky to begin with - although after a couple of races you do get used to it. XLink Kai works as a gateway between your PS2 and their servers. When you load the software on to your PC, it will begin trying to contact the list of known servers. If it cannot connect, you must configure your firewall to allow it to. This may involve opening port 30000 on your firewall.