First time poster. Woot! Small-time collector for about 15 years now with only a couple of machines. Yeah! I recently bought a SF Rush: ER on ebay. Cool! Okay, with that out of the way...
Cleaning up and fixing the new machine, my 6yo self-proclaimed "Genius" son immediately recognised the Ethernet cord on the back, and asked "When we gonna hook it up to the WiFi?" Not one to let my son down, and as a software engineer with lots of experience in networking, I decided to jump in with both feet.
Originally, my plan was to write a program that would record games, and then play them back, so I could race myself. Much like a ghost, but one you could crash into. Problem was, I only had access to my own machine to use in reverse-engineering of a process that involves more than one machine...
Which led to my second, and probably better, plan... To write a program that would let Rush owners connect and race each other over the Internet. This is much easier to do than number 1, and once finished, would actually make number 1 easier to accomplish. Problem is, I still need another machine to develop and test with.. The difference being, I don't actually have to own a second machine. I could team up with other Rush owners, and let them test with me...
Soo.... here I am. I'm putting this out here to the group to see if anyone, specifically with one or more functional, and operating Rush consoles would be interested in helping me test (and preferably actually develop) such a piece of software.
For any dubious of my intent, or ability.. I've already got some code that works in some very limited capacities, and I've started dialog with a couple of the original developers of the game, who have been open and encouraging to the idea as well.
I welcome comments, criticisms, questions, and of course, volunteers.
Cleaning up and fixing the new machine, my 6yo self-proclaimed "Genius" son immediately recognised the Ethernet cord on the back, and asked "When we gonna hook it up to the WiFi?" Not one to let my son down, and as a software engineer with lots of experience in networking, I decided to jump in with both feet.
Originally, my plan was to write a program that would record games, and then play them back, so I could race myself. Much like a ghost, but one you could crash into. Problem was, I only had access to my own machine to use in reverse-engineering of a process that involves more than one machine...
Which led to my second, and probably better, plan... To write a program that would let Rush owners connect and race each other over the Internet. This is much easier to do than number 1, and once finished, would actually make number 1 easier to accomplish. Problem is, I still need another machine to develop and test with.. The difference being, I don't actually have to own a second machine. I could team up with other Rush owners, and let them test with me...
Soo.... here I am. I'm putting this out here to the group to see if anyone, specifically with one or more functional, and operating Rush consoles would be interested in helping me test (and preferably actually develop) such a piece of software.
For any dubious of my intent, or ability.. I've already got some code that works in some very limited capacities, and I've started dialog with a couple of the original developers of the game, who have been open and encouraging to the idea as well.
I welcome comments, criticisms, questions, and of course, volunteers.

