UniBall Central

Rebuilt servers for UniBall 2.3.6 and its chat client BR Chat (ByteRyder Productions, 2008): the server list, the game server, the chat server and BR Chat's update check.

Download

UniBall 2.3.6 with BR Chat: the original installer, from the Internet Archive (ubsetup.exe, 1.2 MB). This copy was archived in 2010 and is already set up for uniball-central.net, so it connects to this server without any changes.

SHA-256 fa21f9b9f5290db76a4ed653ffbe595acdd816f78ab28840a8900389d88d48f6

Connecting

UniBall and BR Chat use uniball-central.net unless their INI files say otherwise. The download above needs no changes. The 2013 installer's files point to uniballhq.com instead: in the game folder, change these lines as shown, or delete them:

UniBall.ini
[Network]
MasterServerAddress=uniball-central.net

BRChat.ini
[Network]
ServerIP=uniball-central.net
UpdateURL=http://www.uniball-central.net/ubupdate/update.txt

The server speaks the protocol of version 2.3.6. A client of another version is told that "there is a new version of UniBall available".

Accounts

There is no sign-up form. Log in to UniBall or BR Chat with a new name and a password, and the account is created on the spot. The same account works in both. Names have at most 15 characters and no spaces, passwords at most 10. Passwords are case-sensitive. To change yours, type /setpassword <old> <new> in BR Chat.

"This account is already in use"

If UniBall refuses your login with this message and you are not playing anywhere else, a game session of yours is stuck. It clears itself within about a minute. To clear it now, use the Self-Booter. The same message appears after too many failed logins from your address; then wait a minute.

Forums

The forums of the original site are gone, and this site has none.