   Newbie... Is this possible?
  Halo, To be honest I don't know anything about game programming. My friend and I both play pc games and console games (playstation and xbox).  We want to know if this is technically possible and/or in someway can this be developed.  We want to develop a website to houses our game stats and winnings in real time for our friends and family so we can rank each other. For example if I'm playing crimson skies on the Xbox online and he is too, can software or hardware be developed so the gaming information is "intercepted" to our website in real time stating who won the game and logging the results on our website?? And if its possible can it work with all gaming platforms Xbox, playstation, and pc games? Thanks, Panda[edited by - panda440 on February 5, 2004 9:18:43 AM][edited by - panda440 on February 5, 2004 9:19:18 AM][edited by - panda440 on February 5, 2004 9:30:52 AM]
  If I have understood what you are thinking about... then answer is simple: no. Hovewer, such a feature could be emulated by manually writting hi scores on this website.;  Get a PC, you can do this with a computer, especially if you are the one running the server.. ;  so this is possble with only pc games? what if a program was writting on disc to put into the xbox or playstation to tell it to transmit game data to my website before it goes to microsoft server... ??? ;  You''d have to hack the game in question - that is one of the most difficult tasks known to man. It can be done, but not by a newbie (and not even by most professionals)... and it''s illegal to publicly reverse engineer games and other copyrighted software in most countries.-NikPS. Please do not cross-post ;  thanks guys, I really appreciate. I''m sorry I cross-posted I wasn''t aware that was a no-no. So far I''ve heard the with a console its possible but nearly impossible and very complicate.  How about the PC, is it easier on pc games? can it be done with pc games and an general terms how?   Basically we want to do it this way so there is no dispute as to who won the game. thanks again!  ;  Wouldn't it be possible to develop a proxy?  If the game allowed one to enter the address of the desired game server, one could develop an application to accept incoming data and then relay it to the actual game server, and then receive and relay returning info to your own console.Of course, you'd have to know what protocols they used and how the data was arranged in the stream or datagrams or whatever...I don't own the example game you mentioned, so I'm sorry I can't give a more specific answer... just throwing ideas out in case someone else knows exactly how the system works.   [edited by - null_void on February 5, 2004 11:22:39 AM] [edited by - null_void on February 5, 2004 11:23:30 AM];  If its a multi-player server game YES IT IS DEFINATELY POSSIBLE on PC games like MOHAA ! I am not sure about XBox but if the MOHAA game there is the same then the answer is yes ;pThere are live broadcasts of clan matches on many private websites - clan websites.  