LAN Help
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I want to play BMS with my younger brother, however whenever i make a game, he can not join me. Am i doing something wrong? Is BMS even capable of LAN Games? NOTE: I have forwarded all required ports.
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Yes BMS is capable of LAN play. It is concerning that you talk about port forwarding since as long as you are in the same LAN port forwarding doesn’t do anything. That is for connecting to the internet to play with someone else. I have seen a bad install of BMS cause this not to work and of course you must verify that BOTH BMS installs are the same version on the same theater. Any of those items will kill it. Hopefully you are also using the internal IP assigned by your router and not the IP at the router.
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If you’re using Windows firewall make sure it allows those ports, or turn it off entirely. But like Stubbies2003 said, you should be using the local IPs. Your router would not figure into this arrangement, other than handing out IP addresses via DHCP.
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If you’re using Windows firewall make sure it allows those ports, or turn it off entirely. But like Stubbies2003 said, you should be using the local IPs. Your router would not figure into this arrangement, other than handing out IP addresses via DHCP.
I run windows firewall as well and other than checking the allow BMS all access to the internet when it came up the one time I’ve done nothing with it and BMS plays just fine.
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I want to play BMS with my younger brother, however whenever i make a game, he can not join me. Am i doing something wrong? Is BMS even capable of LAN Games? NOTE: I have forwarded all required ports.
More info please. How are you guys connected? What type of router or modem/router? Does the LAN network work in windows (try to share a folder for example) or other programs? Have you tried killing Firewall and Anti Virus? Can one of you ping the other? Etc. Etc.
With what you’re telling us now, the simplest answer would be: “he has to turn on his computer”
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I run windows firewall as well and other than checking the allow BMS all access to the internet when it came up the one time I’ve done nothing with it and BMS plays just fine.
I do not own this video tutorial, but this might help. -
Also make sure you are using your internal network addresses and not the internet ones, most all the guides you find are assuming you are using the internet to connect.
With most home routers it will be 192.168.xxx.xxx, so something like 192.168.1.100, or 192.168.0.100 etc…
You can get this by opening a command prompt and typing ipconfig, so below the IP is 192.168.1.110.Ethernet adapter Ethernet: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.110 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 -
I do not own this video tutorial, but this might help.
That video doesn’t cover connecting internally on a LAN like the OP is trying to do so unfortunately it doesn’t help him at all.
Kudos on the video for explaining the bandwidth entries in the comm window though.
One thing the video does miss out on though is that if the person doing the IVC serving is doing so from the same computer serving BMS or the person connecting to an online BMS/IVC setup the same way there is no need to enter ANY data into the dedicated IVC area at the bottom. You only NEED to enter data there if 1.) the server set up a PW to the IVC for some reason or 2.) a different computer is running the IVC hence a different IP address than the BMS server itself.
Now entering data there won’t hurt anything as long as it is entered correctly. However for those servers that are serving both BMS and the IVC the only thing you need is the green check boxes for IVC in the comm window. I’d leave the dedicated IVC area blank in this case. One less thing that can be messed up.
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Oh man, he was using a different version than me. Got it working no problem now. Big thanks to all who helped.
