"I made a website to revive dead multiplayer games (GameDate)" by batty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFBCNnOhYgs

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  • Type: Video. Title: "I made a website to revive dead multiplayer games (GameDate)". Author: "batty". Publisher: "YouTube". Published: 2026-02-17T14:00:48Z. Accessed: 2026-02-25T01:20Z. URI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFBCNnOhYgs. :::
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17 Comments

nesc@lemmy.cafe · 30 pts · 179d (4 replies)
dabaldeagul@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 178d (3 replies)

First thing I see when opening it is "BRO I RAPE KIDS (DISCORDALWAYSWINS)" what the fuck

MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 178d

Yeah... As someone who uses fightcade occasionally, moderation on these services when they're non-federated are a real problem.

imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 178d

Last time I checked, WoW WotLK channel had some racist remarks by creator. I cant find channel now so most likely it is gone by now.

Batmorous@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 177d

What the fuck indeed whoa

doug@lemmy.today · 22 pts · 179d (1 reply)

I know I can Google it, but uhhhhh I’m lazy and wanna help drive Lemmy engagement:

Wasn’t there a multiplayer Resident Evil game wherein you could get bit and become a zombie? But like… it was ahead of its time kinda because you needed 4(?)+ PlayStations on a LAN to play it?

I remember it looked fun, and iirc reviews said it was fun, but they gave it low reviews ‘cause of the hardware hurdle.

Anyways… did anyone ever mod that into a playable, non-LAN experience one can enjoy from their PCs? If so… I’d totally put up a game date on here for that.

I might go search for my own answer and edit it into this if my phone doesn’t die.

Edit: looks like there is a fan-made pc port of it, but getting it setup looks like a bit of a project. hmmmmm

chlo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 179d

Was that Outbreak? I have one memory of playing that (or something similar to it) as a kid, where my character was stuck in a state where I needed another player to help them up. I remember the computer controlled companion just saying the "no" voice line every time I called for help, until I ran out of time and died.

so that's fun.

BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 12 pts · 179d

This is cool, maybe I can find a crew for Quake 3 instagib freeze tag with grapple hook enabled.

As an aside...If I wanted to host an event like this specifically for fediverse, where should one post it?

Let's say I pre-pack a portable archive (so Linux users can easily just add the exe to Faugus/Lutris whatever too) for Halo Custom Edition with a bunch of maps and throw a dedi server up for a week as an example.

So not the .world instance which lied about allowing piracy after announcing they would IIRC.

tuckerm@feddit.online · 3 pts · 179d

Damn, this looks good! This is a huge coincidence: just a few days ago, I was hoping that something like this existed when another thread reminded me of Unreal 2's long-dead multiplayer mode.

DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 178d

This is awesome. Love the UI.

A cool bonus with something like this is finding games you never knew about. I already found a few scrolling through the lobbies.

Only downside is with no sign up requirement you're gonna get a lot of racist basement troll comments, which I've already seen a few. But that's the trade off for not having a sign in requirement, which I prefer for something like this.

Gonzako@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 178d

Anyone gotten any good games out of this?

DragonAce@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 178d

Aww man, I was hoping to find a session of FFXI. Haven't played that in ages.

Surp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 178d

This is neat!

IckabodKobain@feddit.online · 1 pts · 178d

Pass. It's 4chan-/Xbox-Live-Generation Central. I do like the site design though. So thumbs up on that! It looks like the old Steam UI.]

Edit: I'm old I'll see myself to the glue-factory.

kratoz29@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 177d (2 replies)

Neat, let's see if somebody wants to play Jump Ultimate Stars 🤣

DPEWGF@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 177d (1 reply)

Dang that is nostalgia. I'd play!

kratoz29@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 169d

Did you used to play back in the days?

I don't have my DS currently (I lent it), when I get it back I'll come back to you!