BlameThePixel!

Since approximately a month Worms IP Override 2 Tool does not work anymore.
The website, from where the tool gets the ip address isnt online any longer and manually entering the ip number did not work for me and was not my favour.

So I sit down and developed my own Worms IP Override Programm "Worms IP Override v3 beta"
You can find it here: http://www.blamethepixel.com/file.php?id=3106

As the name says, it is beta software only. So you have to do 4 things before you can use it, because it is not automatically:
1. Extract the archiv to a folder of your choice - you should create a new directory for it.
2. In the extracted files there is a wwp shortcut named "wwp.lnk". Make sure this file links to your wwp.exe
3. Start the program by clicking the "WWP IP Override v3 beta.exe"
4. Have fun and report bugs to me

I hope this helps anyone.

greez

It's me again.

I ve build an ultimate hosting tool

It checks all necessary things for hosting and sums up all information.

After a short test if the ports are free and after getting your ip address it sets up the registry entries with your ip and gives you the startbutton.

Press on it and you are able to host!

If you are not able to host the program will give you an error message saying why you cant host and what to do to make you able to host!

VERY GOOD PROGRAM *PROUD*

Because it is too big i cant upload it here, so download here
[6,7MB] http://www.road-of-design.de/hosthelp.zip

Looks really nice!

For the record, the Team17 FAQ has always been inaccurate. You definitely don't need port 6667 to host. I believe WWP connects to wormnet on port 6677, but that's just an outgoing connection, and not used for hosting. And if WWP is anything like WA, then the only port you host on is 17011, and 17010 and 17012 are unused.

So 17011 is it!

Looks great, I haven't checked it out but what puzzles me is why is it 6.7 MB? that seems kinda big for a hosting utility

Good job, make one for W:A and you'll be a very rich man

*Note: by rich i mean very popular*

Depends on the programming language. If it was C++ then Windows would probably already have all the libraries needed. If it was VB you'd need to download any dependencies you don't already have. If it was C#, you'd need MS .NET Framework installed. If the download's big then it probably comes with the dependencies/libraries that you need.

It is written in python, then compiled to windows exe format.

By Compiling it includes all implemented modules which are quite a lot:

from Tkinter import *
from tkMessageBox import *
import urllib
import sys
import os
import socket
import subprocess
import time
import _winreg
import win32com.client

All these together compiled have a size of 2,5 MB
The second thing is, that the programm uses TCL (a windows window manager) which has a size of another 2,2 MB
that makes 4,7 MB already!

The Programm itself is just 25 KB big

If you are interested in the source code, just let me know it.


The problem is, that i have not W:A so i dont know how to make the program for W:A.
I think i will go and buy W:A next week and make a programm for you xD

Ah that makes sense now.
And yeah, you should get W:A , totally worth it

The only relevant differences are:
- The latest beta of WA can detect what IP to host on automatically, so IP Override isn't needed
- The latest beta of WA has settings to host on a different port instead of 17011. So you would just need to let the user choose a port, set the port in WA, and check that hosting on that port works.

Also, don't buy the TryMedia download version of WA, it doesn't support the beta updates.