what was mplayer?

[gregory]

WOW! I remember briefly playing on this back in 1998. I think I played the first Tom Clancy game on there if I'm not mistaken. After a while I just started using it as a chat service because it had the microphone. I remember it also had built in games like chess or card games and stuff. I totally forgot about this place!

[Monster]

sounds like fun. I wish we could implement voice chat into quake. I've always wanted to hear the voices of my fellow quakers.

[PapaSmurf]

Mplayer used their own servers that you could only access from Mplayer. Well, you could access them without Mplayer if someone went in to the game got the ip and port number and gave to someone else (port numbers I think were in a weird range for Quake, like 3000's or something). Each time you launched a game it started up a new server with the settings you chose. I miss Mplayer

Thank you Evade, that is the exact description of Mplayer I was looking for, though I was able to piece together all of what you said from previous posts. You, however, put it all together nicely, and succinctly.

[BizarroEvade]

Thank you Evade, that is the exact description of Mplayer I was looking for, though I was able to piece together all of what you said from previous posts. You, however, put it all together nicely, and succinctly.

No Problem. Monkey and myself have a few relics scattered around from Mplayer days (screenshot here and there, chat logs, etc...). Our (Monkey, Souless, and me) former clan (QWL) from Mplayer was in a tournament in which we lost the final game cause the other clan decided to be dickwads after we were accommodating to them, but we actually saved the same flamewar bitching and moaning afterwards from a message board (http://bizarro.galaxy-pc.com/MXLboard/board2.htm).

Just so there is no confusion, the voice chat was not available in game. That was only in the room you created before joining the game. It really saved on all the typing. We even have voice recordings of one particular person that was annoying (http://bizarro.galaxy-pc.com/misc/rictorsdumbass.wav).

Okay enough fun nostalogic stuff for one day that no one cares about except for me and monkey .

[Magn3tar]

Ahh yes, Mplayer....

It was a fantastic service, as said before there was several different games playable on it and also had several chat rooms for all different genres with microphones and webcams etc..


I'll focus entirely on Quake1 however,

The good ol days, when 20 clans were all on at once, where 4v4 Dm3's were of the plenty and tournies were held every week with prizes. I started out playing Chthon NFF (No friendly fire, you can't hurt yourself) all of the time then I started playing UltraV. While everyone else played Dm6 1v1's there was the other map of UltraV growing equally popular. Me and Pleathe Flea dominated this map, and Pl3sted (used to be known as Phartfactory) would always talk crap in the Mplayer Quake1 lobby which was amassed with maybe hundreds of players at once would all join in and talk the shit and I'd 1v1 someone and everyone would be interested in the match wanting to see the video of the match (Mplayer even allowed File transfers on the service)

Another neat area of Mplayer was a Rankings systems where it would let you have a sign next to your name representing your ranking within everyone else. There was,, hmm, i'll probably miss some but from highest to lowest was Diety, Immortal, wow I forgot the rest but the lowest rank one was the coolest to have as it would take a player months to obtain (usually involved playing chthon and running into the lava constantly and suiciding, I remember setting up my computer as a kid and putting something on the run forward button so I would auto-kill myself while at school) There was also a ranking of sorts but the #1 rank to have was the most suicides, which was nearly impossible to obtain and everyone knew who held that rank at that time.

[Sanith]

So im sitting here bored before work, and got a random itch to play Q1. I figured id see if any servers still existed, and stumbled upon this site.

Seeing how Q1 still is my favorite FPS to date, and I played pretty much exclusively on mplayer, this brougth back memories.

Mplayer was awesome, not only for quake but for some of its random games like YARN. Voice chat, html profiles, ranking..QUAKEBALL, MacArena. Lots of great stuff game from it. As said before, making your own custom game was easy, and clans and matches were numerous.

[PapaSmurf]

I'm glad we were able to help bring you back into the fold. Welcome.

[foq]

The most popular mods are:
Runequake
Clan Arena
Rocket Area
FVF/Rquake

quake.shmack.net
rage.quakeone.com/dredd.quakeone.com
quake.shmack.net:26001
fvf.servequake.com:26000(fvf) and 26003(rquake)/flanders.servegame.org:26003(euro rquake)

gchq is also pretty popular, it runs CRMOD, but is in Europe:
gchq.quake1.net

[PapaSmurf]

gchq.quake1.net runs CRMOD, but it runs only FFA aka normal quake deathmatch. no frills, no gimmicks, just straight fragging.

[WS-KILLER]

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Okay enough fun nostalogic stuff for one day that no one cares about except for me and monkey .[/QUOTE]

I care. I was actually surfing mplayer on archive.org a few weeks ago. Gotta miss those old days when there were hundreds of newbies only rooms to go and quad frag the whole population. 1v1 DM4 and DM6 ninja honor matches, clan matches etc...I wish I could go back. I remember being really pissed off that after gamespy purchased mplayer only offered quake2 and up. That was pretty much the demise of quake1 imo.

[Magn3tar]

Yeah, I remember being very young when GS took over MPlayer and when you typed in mplayer.com it'd go straight to gamespy..

I'd like try to figure out ways to block the auto reroute and shit so I could get back on Mplayer.

[scar3crow]

Ah GameSpy, a wonderful tool that united Quake fans and made things so easy... ...and then abandoned Quake, didn't publish any news of good Quake projects in favor of new games and recently GSI changed all of their domains, breaking hundreds of Quake pages (not to mention Unreal) and leaving the history of a great game in disrepair... I remember going to PlanetQuake for Quake news, now I just go to see how edited their summaries of Inside3d news is, and what items on I3d they do link... *sighs*

Sorry for the tangent.

[InvincibleDrone]

"bow me"



BOW ME!!!


never heard it anywhere but big purple mplayer....

[360]

If only gamespy arcade kept supporting quake one, then the quake community could of stayed together. Gamespy killed mplayer and q1 :C

[BizarroMonkey]

MPlayer was funny because they set up Quake so it wasn't quite really Quake. Like, the physics were a little different. I think gravity was a little bit lower, and you couldn't move as fast. And then there were the standard spawns which were NOT randomized. Some people took great advantage of this in games. *ahem* EVADE *ahem*. You could memorize the spawns. Here's something we saved from way back when I didn't go by Monkey (I think in retrospect I was notorious for this type of shit):