Shadow Warrior (1997) WangBang demo playback

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Shadow Warrior (1997) WangBang demo playback

Post by Pest » Fri Jul 10, 2026 4:47 am

For a long time we thought WangBang demos are fundamentally broken as they never played correctly with "sw -dp". Turns out you just have to simulate network game with multiple machines / DOSBox instances in order to play them right! TENNO HEIKA BANZAI!!! Image
Thanks a lot to Maligned for revealing this secret.

Necessary steps:
1. run the necessary amount of dosbox instances
2. connect the instances to eachother with ``ipxnet startserver`` & ``ipxnet connect localhost``
3. from all instances, run setup.exe with -dp param, e.g. ``setup -dpSPPK -level1 -monst``
4. specify the amount of players and start the network game

Additionally, I arranged this little demo player program to make otherwise tedious process be a matter of two clicks: WangBang Demo Player
...and began work on WangBang Demo Archive: https://desomorphine.ru/sw/demos/










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