[How To] Play Street Fighter IV (4) Online Using Tunngle (or Hamachi) – Live Not Required
Note: This is not illegal, and I do not condone piracy. This is just simply a utility that shows that you can play and host a game with a friend. A group of Chinese developers made this utility, so I take no credit for it.
Revisions:
9-26-09: Initial release
Everyone loves fighting games, and no fighter game deserves a spot in my heart more than Street Fighter IV. It is a badass game, and although it does come with online server support to play on the LIVE servers, what if you want to do it with a friend? More importantly, what if you want to do it via LAN against your friend?
Well guess what? SF4 by default does not have LAN! What are we going to do?
Simple. We use a utility called SF4OnlineV2. This program was made by a group of Chinese developers that lets you play SF4 online against your friend.
In today’s tutorial, we are going to use Tunngle to prove a point, but the same method can be used for Hamachi as well. I strongly urge everyone to use Tunngle though, because it is indeed the wave of the future for VPN LAN gaming over the Internet.
Tutorial
1) Install SF4.
2) Download and install Tunngle from www.tunngle.net
3) Get the sf4onlineV2 tool at: Mediafire
4) Extract the contents of the zip file into the Street Fighter folder.
5) You and your friend go to the Street Fighter Tunngle room.
6) Both players launch the sf4online.exe file.
7) Player 1 adds the player 2 Tunngle IP address. This will send a request to the second player.
8 ) Player 2 acknowledges the request.
9) Player 1 accepts the return request.
If everything is working OK, then the SF4 will launch by itself. The program will automatically skip the screens for you and press the required key presses.
10) After a minute, you will be at the character select screen. Player 1 to not do anything. Wait for Player 2 to get into the game. Player 2 to initiate the move for his cursor. Then Player 1 can move his cursor and select his player. Play the game and fight!
Tips
1) To help decrease lag, both players need to turn graphics to low, and put the framerate to fixed under the game options.
What if my screen and the other player screen turns black?
I have yet to find a solution to this, as I have played with people and been fine, yet I have played with others and I get this black screen.
I suggest you do a search in the registry for “installdir” and see if that makes a difference. Also, make sure both players have unzipped the contents of the sf4online tool files into the SF4 folder.
If you discover the fix, please let me know. I am dying to know!!!
Video Tutorial
I’ve played this with the sf4online mod and works great. My problem is that if you’re the 2p (2nd player) you can’t seem to change your keyboard settings. There’s a keyboard config at the start of the mod but it lacks a couple of commands like throw and focus attack. If anybody knows how to fix this, kindly post a how to or send me an e-mail. Thanks!
Lol both the people in that picture are serious steroid overdosers.
cool nice tips gonna try tonight
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I’m getting an error everytime our game launches; it says
“can’t find inherit com-interface!!!”
any ideas?
Sorry, I never ever got that error before. Make sure tunngle is primary adapter. Use ip address from tunngle.
hey dude, about the black screen, i think it’s from xfire in-game, i had a friend and the black screen got in and i told him to disable xfire in-game and everything went fine :->
hey me and my friend are trying this and we keep getting the TCP port error…and we both are not using a router or anything..
do you know why?
No idea. Are you using tunngle? Turn off xfire too.
I tried this, and even got it working, but the lag on the client (P2) side, was just too huge, plainly unfair. Any way to decrease lag? Other from what u’ve already posted ofc.
At this point in time, no. Get a friend to play it locally. On the bright side, this is all we have so in one sense we should be glad at all a solution EVEN exists.
I got the Black Screen of Death, running on Windows 7.
No XFire installed nor anything else.
Changing to Windows Compatibility mode didn’t work.
Running as Administrator didn’t work.
any clue? :S
I have no explanation. I run SF4 on Windows 7, 32bit, no xfire, and no black screen at all!
Is this running by yourself, or with online play? If online play, make sure other client has xfire uninstalled.
same with the black screen issues. no idea at all…..
Do you or the other player have xfire running?
Hey i downloaded tunngle 4.2.2.4, but the page does not show sf4. How can i find out Ip’s if i cant access the page?
my last question is a bit vague, let me clarify.
When i login i cant sf4 in the games. What should i do?
It is under sports, and you need another person present to play with you.