Some of you may know that Tyrian 2.1 had a multiplayer option over ipx or modem/nullmodem. However, when they made tyrian 2000 they removed that portion of the game leaving us to make the decision of either going with 2.1 with network multiplayer or t2000 with the 5th chapter. Now how about we all have our cake and eat it?

Now following this old thread

http://tyrian2k.proboards.com/index.cgi?board … read=139&page=1

zellsf pretty much did all the leg work and found out that you could copy some files from the 2.1 shareware!?!? version to get the multiplayer portion into t2k. And then use this backdoor command to get into the Epic Games Arena

netipx netarena -l 1 file0001

He even later pointed out which files were required under it. He was wrong however in the game needing the 2.1 .exe for multi as the 2k one works fine when called "tyrian.exe". So relabel "tyrian2k.exe" to just tyrian.exe and, volia, Tyrian 5 episode plus multiplayer!

I took the liberty of putting the missing 2.1 shareware files into a zip file and with a multi.bat containing the backdoor command
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So to get this working

1) Setup your version of Tyrian2000. If the executable is called tyrian2k relabel it to just tyrian. The Gog version is just called tyrian so no extra work there.

2) Download this zip file containing the missing multi files from the shareware version of tyrian2.1.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2dczk5bcpx55875/T2kMulti.zip?dl=1

3) extract the missing files into the tyrian2k data folder

4) launch dosbox and connect to another dosbox via the ipx emulation:
ipx true
ipxnet startserver [udp port] or ipxnet connect <IP> [UDP port]

5) launch multi.bat to start up the Epic Mega Games Arena

6)Have fun!