@ZApresident @Straatford87
These old games all used the now completely obsolete IPX network protocol, but that's all been fixed by community patches a long time ago.
However, there's a second factor involved, namely, the registration key of the game needs to be unique in one network. The problem with that is, this key is fetched from the Windows registry... and the The First Decade and Origin installations of the game never fill in this key, causing the security systems to see all these blank keys on the network as identical.
I explained how to get the unofficial network fix, and how to solve that registration key issue, in this thread:
http://answers.ea.com/t5/C-C-The-Ultimate-Collection/A-problem-on-running-Red-Alert-II-in-local-netw...
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I will not help with game questions sent as private messages; those questions belong on the boards where everyone can see my answers.
