Cross-platform play: Difference between revisions

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However, the Sega Mega Drive version of ''SanSan'' (an online service for Go, a Japanese board game) released in 1994 for the Mega Modem did offer multiplayer where MD players could play against PC players. It was very niche, though.

The cross-play idea would eventually come with the Sega [[Dreamcast]]. Very revolutionary for its time, it pushed cross-play between a console and a home computer to mainstream with the release of ''Quake 3 Arena'', allowing to set-up a joint PC/Dreamcast server.

The cross-play idea would eventually come with the Sega [[Dreamcast]]. Very revolutionary for its time, it pushed cross-play between console and home computer to mainstream with the release of ''Quake 3 Arena'', allowing to set-up a joint PC/Dreamcast server.

And you can still do it to this day! All you need is an unpatched copy of the game for Windows, Linux or macOS, [https://www.bmamod.de/eng/download.php the latest version of the Black Metal Assault server mod] and [https://archive.org/details/dcmappack the official Dreamcast map pack].

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 However, the Sega Mega Drive version of ''SanSan'' (an online service for Go, a Japanese board game) released in 1994 for the Mega Modem did offer multiplayer where MD players could play against PC players. It was very niche, though.
-The cross-play idea would eventually come with the Sega [[Dreamcast]]. Very revolutionary for its time, it pushed cross-play between a console and a home computer to mainstream with the release of ''Quake 3 Arena'', allowing to set-up a joint PC/Dreamcast server.
+The cross-play idea would eventually come with the Sega [[Dreamcast]]. Very revolutionary for its time, it pushed cross-play between console and home computer to mainstream with the release of ''Quake 3 Arena'', allowing to set-up a joint PC/Dreamcast server.
 And you can still do it to this day! All you need is an unpatched copy of the game for Windows, Linux or macOS, [https://www.bmamod.de/eng/download.php the latest version of the Black Metal Assault server mod] and [https://archive.org/details/dcmappack the official Dreamcast map pack].