Little Big Planet Karting

[fusion0908]

Hi Jackcaver,

I’ve been following your work on PLGarage through LBP Union and I’m really excited about the LittleBigPlanet Karting custom server project.
I was wondering if there’s currently any way to try it out, or if you’re looking for people to help with testing.

Thank you for the hard work and keeping the LBP Karting community alive!

[jackcaver]

Hi, sorry for not replying for so long, unfortunately at the moment the only way to try it out is hosting on your own or connecting to someone else's instance, both options have their own problems, since the only bombd software that implements most of the online multiplayer features is not yet released to the public and derole's implementation of bombd has some major problems preventing it from being run normally on most devices, since it only works on windows and due to the game's protocol being deprecated it only works on specific versions of windows that still have that protocol, it could be possible that it can run on Linux with some workarounds, but i never tried it and i also don't think it's worth trying since a better alternative is on the way, as for why bombd is even needed, the answer is simple, due to how the game was built, it is not possible to make it go online without at least a simple implementation of bombd that would have a fully functional directory server and a simple implementation of a few other services.

[fusion0908]

One more question, when do you think the pl garage lbp karting project be done and available to play?

[jackcaver]

Sorry, but i don't have any plans on hosting my own public instance, i simply don't have the resources for that. The source code of the software itself is public so technically anyone can host it ┐⁠(⁠ ⁠∵⁠ ⁠)⁠┌