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ONLINE PLAY
By: Zip-A-Dee-Do
If you want to host an online game, you will need
to provide your TCP/IP address to the other party.
Go to this URL to find out what the IP# of your current
internet session is: http://forums.speedguide.net:8117/
If you are familiar with "Copy & Paste"
once you are on that page you can highlight your IP#
Right click on it, select "Copy" then send
an ICQ message to the party you are playing and right
click then select "Paste" This will produce
your IP# with no errors and does save the typing.
The other way would be to click on "Start",
Click on "Run" type in the letters winipcfg
click O.K. and your IP address will appear, but you
will not be able to copy and paste this, so you would
need to write it down, then type it in your ICQ message.
It's slower, and sometimes inacurate when you transpose
a number or typographical error occurs.
It is recommended to both have ICQ open when setting
up the connection for the online game. When something
goes wrong and you can't connect with each other,
you can immediately let each other know through ICQ.
Without ICQ or through mail you don't have a direct
contact with the other and as you never know what
the other is doing at that very moment, setting up
a game can be a crime.
As soon as the online game has started you can close
down ICQ, or change your status to offline so that
you don't receive incoming messages, which might let
your swing meter skip.
TO HOST A GBC GAME
- Double click on the GBC icon on your desktop
- Click on "Setup Game"
- Choose the Golf Course and Course Conditions, your
Golfer, and Game Type as you would normally do.
- When playing Matchplay do not forget to tick the
following checkboxes:
- Allow Conceded Holes
- Go to Next Hole once Hole is won
- Sudden Death Playoff when tied
- Quit round once winner is decided
- Ready Golf is an option you can tick for every
online game. When this is ticked, you don't have to
wait for the other player to be able to play your
shot. Immediately afer you have played your shot,
you will see the shot of the other player, and then
you can play your next shot. You don't have to watch
the other player setting up his shot all the time.
This plays a lot quicker.
When you don't tick it you will play a Regular Game.
In this you will always have to wait till the other
player has played his shot. The fun of this is, you
will see him select clubs, adjusting the aiming arrow
and clicking the swing meter.
- Select tab "Net Play" and then click
on "Host a game".
- Type a session name in the box that pops up (anything
will do). Highlight "TCP/IP connection for direct
play" and then click on "Connect".
- You will see your golfers name in the "Connected
Players".
Then wait until the other player(s) have joined and
you will see their name in that same box.
You can chat with them to confirm conditions, and
type of play - Regular or Ready Golf.
Then select "Start Game" and your on your
way.
TO JOIN A GBC GAME
- The person hosting the game will send you his IP#.
- Double click on JN6 to start the game, click on
"Set-up Game", then click on "Net Play".
- Click on "Join as a Golfer", click on
"TCP/IP Connection for Direct Play".
- Type or paste the IP# in the drop down box "Locate
Session" then click O.K.
- Wait until the game appears in the "Join a
Network Game".
You should see it almost immediately, so you don't
have to wait minutes.
- When it appears then click on the "Connect"
button.
- Once you are connected you can chat with each other
by typing messages in the small box and then select
send.
- The host controls the game.
When he clicks Start Game, you both are on your way.
- When you play you will see a small box upper left
that says "Show" If you wish to say something
to the other party, click on it and type your message.
Please insure that you never click the Send or Enter
key when you see the others players swing meter as
it will make his swing skip.
It would be the same as talking during his swing in
real golf.
- The chat messages appear in a transparant box at
the bottom of your screen. Sometimes the messages
are blocking a clear view of your putting line. You
can move this box, by leftclicking on it, holding
the leftmouse key, and then moving the box.
OFFLINE PLAY AGAINST OTHER PLAYERS
By: Zip-A-Dee-Do
First, make sure you have the official patch installed.
Start the game, select Preferences and then the General
tab. At the bottom right you want to see four checkbox
options: Record Golfer Rounds, Display Scorecard,
Auto Accept Shots and Use Alternate Aim Arrow Blending.
If you only see two options there, you don't have
the patch installed. You can download it from the
mainpage of The Course Depot. It solves a lot of bugs,
improves a bunch of other things and adds a few options.
Saving your ROUND
and GAME files
Make sure that at this General tab the checkbox
Record Golfer Rounds is checked.
Now just play you're game as you usually do. After
holing out on the 18th, you will be given the possibility
to save your played round in a *.ROUND file. By default
GBC suggests a filename that has this format "Coursename
- Players name". I always add some extra info,
so that the receiving party can see what my game settings
for my round where by reading the file name.
I always use this format:
(Coursename
- Players name (Wind, Greens, Pin, Visisbility)
A few examples:
Abbot's Bridge - Ronsson (Mi,H,P2,C) - Mild Wind,
Hard greens, Pin 2, Clear
New Hartselle Creek - Ronsson (Me,N,P4,Ra) - Medium
Wind, Normal greens, Pin 4, Random visibility
Beaver Creek - Ronsson (S,S,P1,C) - Strong Wind, Soft
Greens, Pin 1, Clear
Augusta 2000 - Ronsson (Mi,S,P5,F50) - Mild Wind,
Soft Greens, Pin 5, Fog 50%
By using this filenaming convention the receiving
party always knows how to set up GBC to play against
my rounds. it's all in the filename.
After you have saved your round, you also want to
save your game in a *.GAME file. You still have the
scorecard on your screen, after saving your round.
Move your mouse down, so that the Game Task Bar comes
up, select Options (the second to the right) and then
select the option Save Game. Now you can save your
Game.
There's an easy way to save your Game file under
the same name as your Round file. When you have the
Save Round window before you, select the filename
of the *.ROUND file before saving it, and then copy
it by CTRL + C (of course only the filename and not
the *.round file extention).
Then save the Game file, and in the save game file
window push SHFT + Insert.
The difference between the ROUND and the GAME file
is this.
In the ROUND file all your shots are saved.
You can load this round and play against it.
In the GAME file your scorecard and your gamesettings
are saved.
You can view the final scores, but you can also check
with what game options the game has been played.
You can do this, by loading the GAME file:
- Saved Games and Shots
- Rightclick somewhere on the screen
- Select Preferences
- Select the Advanced tab
- Click on the Verify Game button, while pressing
the SHIFT key
- You can now verify all the options. How many times
has the game been resumed, have mulligans or gimmies
been used, etc. etc.
If you participate in tournaments you always have
to send in your Game file, so that they can verify
if you have played with the propr Game Settings.
All GAME and ROUND files, as well as shots that
you opt to save, will be saved in the folder Saved
Files, a subfolder of the folder in which you installed
the GBC game.(by default that's C:\Jack Nicklaus 6
Golden Bear Challenge) unless you have opted to change
that by the installation.
When you receive ROUND and GAME files from somebody
else, you'll also have to place them in that Saved
Files folder.
After you have copied the files to the Saved Files
folder, you can setup the game. Start GBC, select
Setup Game.
On the Golf Courses tab, choose the desired course
and select the same course conditions (wind, green,
pin and visibility) as those of the saved ROUND file.
Note, the GAME will only verify if the you load the
saved file with the proper course, and if you have
set the same pinposition as in the saved ROUND file.
It does not verify if you set the same wind, green
and visibility conditions!!!! (But of course after
you have played, and saved your ROUND and GAME file,
your opponent can check if you have played under the
same conditions by checking your GAME file.)
Now proceed to the Golfers Tab. Select your own
player in the window on the left and add it, and then
scroll all the way down in the left window, till you
see the red square with "Recorded Golfers".
When you click on recorded Golfers it shows you all
the Round files in the Saved Filders folder. You can
select the recorded Golfer and add it too.
Note: if
you don’t see Recorded Golfers or if you do
see it, but you cannot see recorded golfers, although
there is (are) recorded round(s) in the Saved Files
folder, you have to re-install GBC. That's a known
bug. When installing, GBC asks you two questions:
Do you want to install DirectX? and Do you want
to create a shortcut? Answer both questions with
no. Do not forget to reinstall the official patch
too. And now you will be able to load Recorded Golfers.
But by following the above procedure you can play
against somebody elses ROUNDs or against your own
for that matter.
When you have played a round and mailed it to
someone else, and you get his round back, you can
even load this recorded round, together with your
own previously saved round. In that way, you don't
play at all. You are just watching a live broadcast
of the match between you and your opponent as it
where.
And if you do not have an hour to watch the full
game, you can just load the GAME file and only watch
the scores instead of the entire match.
I
hope the above information is some help for you,
in helping to enjoy the game a little more. |
