Hi there, another GitHub traveler! Today I will be your guide for connecting and starting a server on IGS, a MSN Zone Internet Games revival.
Tip
To use the guide properly, be sure you do it with Windows 7 Games for Windows 10 installed and ZIGS in folder on C or external drive like D or E Why is Windows 7 Games for Windows 10 needed? because starting from Windows 8, Microsoft removed games like Internet Backgammon and offline games like Purble Place and ZIGS is a server for Internet Games, W7GFW10 pack is NOT owned by me, its owned by Winaero who made Winaero Tweaker
To launch the server, download the version for your CPU arch from the IGS GitHub link at the top Then unzip the archive downloaded from releases to some folder at one of your internal/external drives
Caution
ZIGS does NOT work on Linux/macOS/BSD devariatives, it's a program only for Microsoft Windows under ARM64 or amd64!!!
Then, go to the folder and launch InternetGamesServer.exe, if you do not run it on a VPS/VDS and you run it on your self-host PC, then also recommended to use software like Hamachi or Radmin VPN
To connect to your or anothers server, go to the directory of your server EXEC in CMD and type "dllinjector -c" If one of games (e.g. Internet Checkers) is launched, window will appear from the game in the taskbar
In the window, you should put 'localhost' or IP of ZIGS server you want to connect to, port is unnecessary to enter yours, it always listens on Zone's default port
If you are the hoster of the server and you found cheaters (if there are cheats for MSN Zone IG's lol 💀) or cyberbullies, these commands might help you: If found bots, cheaters (💀) or bullies, use one of these
lc - Lists all connected to the server sockets and their IPs
lm - List all match sockets with players and their IPs
k {ip} - Kick one of connected IP sockets like k 192.149.139.23
b {ip} - Ban one of connected IP sockets
u {ip} - Remove socket from the banlist
For now, thats all!
I will research the server and it's abilities more on now but still this guide may not get something majorly new because thats based off 2.0 version of ZIGS.. beta :3
ZIGS is Zone Internet Games Server's revival, made because of MSN Games closing on July 31, 2019
And how was ZIGS made? I can't really say the truth but my guess is reverse engineering or protocol recreation
So, PC -> ZIGS -> LAN/WLAN -> Gayming time :3
(i couldnt explain more sry 😭)
So uh yeah hi happy new year- oh... im late well anyways VIRRY IS BAKC!!!!!
lets just say that.... i learned ZIGS a bit more
so now i will tell you THAT: you can actually turn your PC into a full fledged MSN Zone (maybe not) server at home!
so its not just the Local Area Network thingy now, lets learn about VPN'S!!!
okay so, to create an MSN Zone server at home that everyone can play NOT using even a cloud hosting vm (like the ZIGS creator did and it expired lmao)
there's two magic spells that Minecraft players are maybe familiar with (Hello, Russian/Ukrainian MC players!): Hamachi and Radmin VPN
we will talk about Radmin VPN today, so! if you are a minecraft player ur prob familiar with Hamachi and Radmin VPN as it finally made Open for LAN usable
so how it works? radmin vpn just creates a network that has credentials as: Name Password (6-digits)
and without these? mmm sorry self hosting is cancelled-
and in this virtual private network (vpn) it connects everyone to your wi-fi (kinda) and it makes that like everyone connected to the vpn is in your "room" and they are all in your LAN
so here now the IP given by zigs is usable!
also uhh...
pro-tip: the ip always given by zigs is permanent so you can set a reverse proxy and put a domain to it and it may work with radmin vpn and hamachi
like instead of "192.168.0.0.1" you get everyone to use "zigs.mylocal.area" lfmao