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Originally Posted by Tik
While I tend to agree, the owners of this site are wise not to endorse illegal activities for obvious reasons. The fact of the matter is that this site doesn't even need to host full copies of any version of the game in order for people to find it on their own. This should be common knowledge.
As for the split in the community, I'm not very active on JJ2 obviously but the TSF-based community and the 1.23-based communities are almost already separate simply based on location and time zone. If we were ever to unify the two it would be with a newer upgrade such as 1.25. And even then I doubt that support for 1.23 and TSF and even 1.21 would cease. Cutting them off would just worsen any 'split' anyway. And as has been said, there are tools for someone on one version to play against someone on another.
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What obvious reasons? You really think epic is going to send lawyers after this site for some old game they no longer support and won't even host their own servers for? And I doubt the webhost even knows what jazz jackrabbit is. It SHOULD be common knowledge for people know where to find a certain version of the game. But I'm hearing things like "some people can't find this version of jazz so they would be split from the community". It is a fact that at this point, everyone has access to 1.23 and 1.24. Don't use this site's pointless "warez policy" to deny it. I don't why people would be so determined to stick to their own version. Do you 1.23 jazzers feel so proud of using 1.23 that it would be too much to ask of you to make a few clicks to upgrade to 1.24? If you had to update to play online, would you quit jazz and then cry in the corner because the community is "trying to bring you down"? As for 1.25, it's been anticipated for a long time and may never happen because you can't see the source code. If 1.23 jazzers have to update to 1.25, then that means they'll have everything 1.24 jazzers have, so they might as well update to 1.24 now.
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Now an impossible to do thing would be to make a server in the list called "updater" and make it so when a 1.20 user tries to join it, it sends them the patch to their desktop (and possibly executes it) and modifies their registry with the list server patch so the 1.23 patch will know where to find 1.20 and that would be really cool if the patch also auto-executed.
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Many games actually do automatically patch you to latest version everyone else is using in order for you to play online. But even if this is a good idea to encourage everyone to change to a single version, it shouldn't be necessary. People shouldn't be too lazy to make a few clicks so that they have the correct version to play online.
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