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So, because the official battle.net is broken for many players (lvl 1 warrior bug, greyed out create/join game buttons), I have been looking into an alternative realm to connect to. In fact, there's a lot of them. But only few of them are set up correctly so that everyone can join games, even without any port forwarding.
(Note that you still need to port forward in order to HOST games and have people join you)

I believe I found a working alternative. I'm looking for someone willing to help me investigate. Basically anyone who can host a game on the official battle net. I want to verify that hosting and joining works properly on said private realm. Add me on GOG and I'll give you the details.
If everything seems to work properly, I'll update my post with details.
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Realpsojed: So, because the official battle.net is broken for many players (lvl 1 warrior bug, greyed out create/join game buttons), I have been looking into an alternative realm to connect to. In fact, there's a lot of them. But only few of them are set up correctly so that everyone can join games, even without any port forwarding.
(Note that you still need to port forward in order to HOST games and have people join you)

I believe I found a working alternative. I'm looking for someone willing to help me investigate. Basically anyone who can host a game on the official battle net. I want to verify that hosting and joining works properly on said private realm. Add me on GOG and I'll give you the details.
If everything seems to work properly, I'll update my post with details.
sure i'd be down to try it.
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Realpsojed: So, because the official battle.net is broken for many players (lvl 1 warrior bug, greyed out create/join game buttons), I have been looking into an alternative realm to connect to. In fact, there's a lot of them. But only few of them are set up correctly so that everyone can join games, even without any port forwarding.
(Note that you still need to port forward in order to HOST games and have people join you)

I believe I found a working alternative. I'm looking for someone willing to help me investigate. Basically anyone who can host a game on the official battle net. I want to verify that hosting and joining works properly on said private realm. Add me on GOG and I'll give you the details.
If everything seems to work properly, I'll update my post with details.
While would you like to make a private realm ? Isn't it just better to be everybody together at the global server ?
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MANTECA0: While would you like to make a private realm ? Isn't it just better to be everybody together at the global server ?
Ï would love to play on the global server. But I can't. I explained why I can't play in the first sentence of my post. And I'm not alone with these issues. There are MANY topics, here on this forum, about being unable to connect, about getting 6112 error, about the inability to join nightmare/hell difficulty games.
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So far I've found out that you cannot play on any private realms with the GOG version of Diablo. The issue here is that PVPGN servers have been updated, but have not been tested with Diablo 1, and currently you cannot join any games hosted on private servers.

The solution to that problem was to use an old version of PVPGN server, however that requires you to connect with Diablo 1.09. Because GOG version of Diablo is currently patched to a different patch version, you cannot connect to old PVPGN servers.

So basically we're back to Hamachi until someone fixes Battle.net or until someone fixes PVPGN servers...
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Realpsojed: So basically we're back to Hamachi until someone fixes Battle.net or until someone fixes PVPGN servers...
PvPGN Server support has been dodgy at best. And Hamachi is my least favorite VPN application.

I have had good luck hosting and joining games on gameranger over the years. It works with the new gog release as well.
PVPGN support was stellar up to 1.8.5. I have a working Diablo installed from the original CDs with patch 1.09 which can connect to this old version of PVPGN just fine. There's no lvl 1 warrior bug and there's no disabled Create/Join buttons.
yes, you are true, the last version of pvpgn, that supports Diablo 1 is 1.8.5 because of some changes in the newer version of pvpgn... We are running a pvpgn server too BrutleNET @ brutlenet.brut.me and because of Diablo 1, we had to revert to 1.8.5 and it is working there without problem, you just need the original v1.09