Natural selection running on non-steam half-life

smorgasbord_of_pie

I'd like to play natural selection without steam, with the old 'custom game' system for half-life, for LAN game purposes. I tried to install it into the old sierra\half-life directory, and was able to open it with the custom games menu, get the old natural selection menus and so on. However, when I tried to start a game it said I was missing a file called client.dll from the game directory. Is there a workaround for this? Otherwise, can somebody link me to a non-steam compatible installer (if any of them even still exist <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />)

Cheers

Dead-Inside

Yeah, um, this isn't gonna work.

smorgasbord_of_pie

Yep, I worked that out by myself! But the question stands, is there a way I can do it? I have seen it done before (ages ago though) and would like to know if anybody knows a way to make it happen, with an old installer or whatever.

Thansal

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Basically:

What you are asking is illegal, and thus banned on this forum.

DarkFrost

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What you are asking is illegal, and thus banned on this forum.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Not really sure where its illegal to run half-life in its original state, but ok...

There is however a questionable web page that changes the old half-life install into an up to date, yet non steam version. But again thats only questionably illegal. In the way that valve probably say its not legal, but in those countries where reverse engineering isn't illegal, it probably isn't.

But you'll have to flex your google fingers to find it, because I'm not going to link it.

JazzX

At the very minimum it's probably some sort of violation the HL1 EULA. Valve definitely don't support it and we (the NS1 Devs) don't either.

The last release of NS that was developed and worked consistently on Won.net was 2.01. People have claimed they got 3.x working in "alternative" authentication environments, but discussion of how they might have gone on about it is not allowed here.

Liger_XT5

If you can get your hands on a copy of half life 1 that was made BEFORE steam came around and install it with an update file (easily found on the net), you can do it. I have for the fact that I was trying to play NS with friends in the house without steam (before I found out how to fool the system by forcing it into offline mode before the option was available in the File menu).

Just one note about it if you get your hands on a old copy and get both HL and NS installed: Don't use Hand Grenades (grenade launcher works fine though). If yo do, last I knew, instant ns server freeze.




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But I suggest just logging into each computer with steam, tell it to go offline, and log in again with the same username and password on the other computers each. Just do each separately. This saves Time and Money if you just want to play on LAN.
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