How to Play Your PSP over the Internet via Your Mac

This is the coolest. Official Xlink Kai Forums has a tutorial online complete with screenshots showing you how to set up your Mac to act as an Adhoc network for your PSP, so that you can play PSP games capable of multiplayer over the internet using Xlink Kai’s free online gaming service. All you need is a free account with Xlink Kai, a copy of Amaryllis from Nullriver (the makers of PSPware), and a copy of Kaid OS X Menu from Xlink.

In order to make everything work, you have to have your Mac connected to the internet via your Ethernet connection, then create a computer to computer network between you Mac and your PSP, then launch Kaid and launch Amaryllis, connect to the game room where you want to play, and then launch the multiplayer option of the game you want to play on your PSP and either host or search for games.

I gave this a shot last night and raced several times in Wipeout Pure with an online opponent. It was good, but there was some lag, so my opponent would intermittently disappear or only appear as a non-moving ghost. I also attempted to play Untold Legends, but every game I connected to dropped shortly after connecting. I have no idea of knowing if this was just a temporary problem, or if the service is still in its Alpha stages, but it’s encouraging at least to know that people are figuring out ways to tunnel these games over the internet and that they’re including the Mac in this process.

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marcos

could you tell me in better description how to do this cause i dont really understand

December 09 2005 at 11:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brian Bowman

how do you create a computer to computer network and what is the protocol to create your psp running through your mac? I have an Ibook G4 using airport extreme and airport base station.

June 22 2005 at 12:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brian Bowman

I still have problems getting the computer to psp and airport to run at the same time any sugesstions?

June 22 2005 at 12:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Nick!

It seemed to me the people having the best luck on Kai where the Mac users, at least when I was on... The only game I've gotten is Lumines and it seems after a lot of effort that Lumines is a no-go due to latency problems. Adhoc WiFi just isn't meant to be routed, and a lot of the early games aren't written in any way to support this. For example, Lumines switches Adhoc networks entirely once you pick a user to play with. I went so far as to write a script on the Mac to hop Adhoc networks as soon as they appeared and can consistantly get to the skin select screen, but it always bombs out. Considering how weird the lobby acts, my guess is Lumines has a very very short timeout, and maaaaaaybe it would work under the most ideal conditions, the kind you'll be lucky to find. Adhoc networking doesn't require the more robust network code that something going over the Internet needs, and it shows. I hope more PSP developers use Infrastructure WiFi in the future. Also, I hope Game Sharing works on Kai, because that may mean that one person can buy Namco Museum, and thousands can play Pacman off it. I wonder how Sony and Namco would feel about that. Would that be considered piracy? :)

March 31 2005 at 8:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply