NR2003 Sierra MultiPlayer Shutting Down...

So sad :( Luckily there are ways around this! -Larry Notice of Multiplayer Fuctionality Termination for 20 Sierra Entertainment Heritage Titles Los Angeles, CA - July 16, 2007 - The sites and multiplayer functionality for the following products will terminate as of August 16, 2007: a.. 3-D Ultra Cool Pool b.. ARC (Attack Retrieve Capture) c.. Lords of MagicT d.. NASCAR� Legends e.. NASCAR� Racing 2002 Season f.. NASCAR� Racing 2003 Season g.. NASCAR� Racing 3 h.. NASCAR� Racing 3 demo i.. NASCAR� Racing 3 Trucks j.. NASCAR� Racing 4 k.. Professional Bull Rider 2 l.. PGA Championship Golf 2000T m.. Starsiege: Tribes n.. SWAT� 3 demo o.. Throne of DarknessT p.. Field & Stream Trophy Bass 4 q.. Field & Stream Trophy Bass 5 r.. Field & Stream Trophy Hunting 4 s.. Field & Stream Trophy Hunting 5 t.. You Don't Know Jack�: 5th Dementia Thank you for your longstanding support of Sierra Entertainment's products. Sincerely, Sierra Entertainment

"Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:lNani.1237$[email hidden]...

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> So sad :( > > Luckily there are ways around this! > > -Larry > > blah blah blah... > > Sincerely, > > Sierra (empty shell of what it used it be) Entertainment >

Oh man! ARC! I used to play that on TEN as a break from all the racing! I kicked everyone's tail in that game. lol. Such a simple game, but so damn fun!

I don't think it will really slow down the community at all. There was (or is) a replacement for Sierra out there already. I forget the name of it. RaceList? NR2003 will live on way beyond this. Here's one good thing. We can run a No-CD patch now and not have to worry about no online (I think) :) Since the Sim is now so totally unsupported, wouldn't it be great if Sierra would release a patch to remove the copy protection! -Larry "Will D" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > "Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:lNani.1237$[email hidden]... >> So sad :( >> >> Luckily there are ways around this! >> >> -Larry >> >> blah blah blah... >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Sierra (empty shell of what it used it be) Entertainment >> > > Oh man! ARC! I used to play that on TEN as a break from all the racing! I > kicked everyone's tail in that game. lol. Such a simple game, but so damn > fun! >

Larry wrote:

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> I don't think it will really slow down the community at all. > > There was (or is) a replacement for Sierra out there already. I forget the > name of it. > > RaceList? > > NR2003 will live on way beyond this. > > Here's one good thing. We can run a No-CD patch now and not have to worry > about no online (I think) :) > > Since the Sim is now so totally unsupported, wouldn't it be great if Sierra > would release a patch to remove the copy protection! > > -Larry

http://www.raceservers.net/ I think thats what you're talking about..or not ;-) Mike mls67

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:37:05 -0400, Larry wrote:

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> I don't think it will really slow down the community at all. > > There was (or is) a replacement for Sierra out there already. I forget the > name of it. > > RaceList? > > NR2003 will live on way beyond this. > > Here's one good thing. We can run a No-CD patch now and not have to worry > about no online (I think) :) > > Since the Sim is now so totally unsupported, wouldn't it be great if Sierra > would release a patch to remove the copy protection! >

And the source code, while they're at it ;-) However I think that those assets where bought back by iracing, right? Cheers, uwe -- GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61

Larry wrote:

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> So sad :( > > Luckily there are ways around this! > > -Larry > > Notice of Multiplayer Fuctionality Termination for 20 Sierra Entertainment > Heritage Titles > Los Angeles, CA - July 16, 2007 - The sites and multiplayer functionality > for the following products will terminate as of August 16, 2007: > > > a.. 3-D Ultra Cool Pool > b.. ARC (Attack Retrieve Capture) > c.. Lords of MagicT > d.. NASCAR® Legends > e.. NASCAR® Racing 2002 Season > f.. NASCAR® Racing 2003 Season > g.. NASCAR® Racing 3 > h.. NASCAR® Racing 3 demo > i.. NASCAR® Racing 3 Trucks > j.. NASCAR® Racing 4 > k.. Professional Bull Rider 2 > l.. PGA Championship Golf 2000T > m.. Starsiege: Tribes > n.. SWAT® 3 demo > o.. Throne of DarknessT > p.. Field & Stream Trophy Bass 4 > q.. Field & Stream Trophy Bass 5 > r.. Field & Stream Trophy Hunting 4 > s.. Field & Stream Trophy Hunting 5 > t.. You Don't Know Jack®: 5th Dementia > > Thank you for your longstanding support of Sierra Entertainment's products. > > > Sincerely, > > Sierra Entertainment

I wouldn't mind sparing a couple of servers to replace one of Sierra's (match making/chat/ratings database) servers if I had some help with it. I'm sure I could spare a few Gbs a month bandwidth to get started with to atleast keep the "Sierra East Alpha Lobby" alive! Clients would then just have to manually add/edit a few lines in their core and player.ini's to be able to properly list all the races and players in the lobby. I guess I could just type up a simple batch script that would automatically add the new server domain/ip addys also for the "dot ini" challanged. :o If you think its a good idea and would like to help, email me at [email hidden] If not... well it was just an idea. ;-\

Actually it was a stand alone program that you ran on your pc. -Larry "mike" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:OWvni.21$[email hidden]...

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> Larry wrote: >> I don't think it will really slow down the community at all. >> >> There was (or is) a replacement for Sierra out there already. I forget >> the name of it. >> >> RaceList? >> >> NR2003 will live on way beyond this. >> >> Here's one good thing. We can run a No-CD patch now and not have to >> worry about no online (I think) :) >> >> Since the Sim is now so totally unsupported, wouldn't it be great if >> Sierra would release a patch to remove the copy protection! >> >> -Larry > > > http://www.raceservers.net/ > > I think thats what you're talking about..or not ;-) > > Mike > mls67

> > Los Angeles, CA - July 16, 2007 - The sites and multiplayer functionality > > for the following products will terminate as of August 16, 2007: > > > f.. NASCAR® Racing 2003 Season We'll all be driving ARCA cars soon anyway :) Pat Dotson

> Here's one good thing. We can run a No-CD patch now and not have to worry about no online (I think) :) That was never an issue. Have the regular and no-cd patch versions on your system with different names. Just run the no-cd patch version then rename the regular version after starting the game. Here's a sample batch file that will do the trick. I thought this was well known a long time ago: Rename cd-rom version to nr2003c.exe Rename no-cd version to nr2003n.exe Create a batch file with the following lines and use it to run online with the no-cd version. At $80+ for the cd-rom, I want to preserve mine. if not exist nr2003c.exe ren nr2003.exe nr2003c.exe if not exist nr2003n.exe ren nr2003.exe nr2003n.exe ren nr2003n.exe nr2003.exe start nr2003.exe ren nr2003.exe nr2003n.exe ren nr2003c.exe nr2003.exe

"Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:pApni.353$[email hidden]... > Here's one good thing. We can run a No-CD patch now and not have to worry > about no online (I think) :) Jesus Larry - where have you BEEN?!?! I've been running on Sierra's servers WITHOUT a CD for a couple of years now, and without using Jeff Reid's "workaround". :)