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Rumble In The Void
I’ve only just remembered the times I used to spend playing this awesomely simple top-down space war game on Wireplay (back when it belonged to BT – circa 2001). Sadly, and to some extent uniquely, virtually all mention of this game has vanished from the internet. All I can find is one rather lame screenshot…
… and the sad end of the community. I’m not sure there’s ever been a game to make such a total disappearance.
Now this would make an awesome Xbox 360 Live Arcade game…someone get to it.
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On 23 Oct '07 at 9:37 pm Joe said:
I remember it! I wonder if a blog post will be all that’s left of World Of Warcraft in a few years time when the servers are all shutdown?
On 26 Nov '07 at 2:24 am Matt said:
http://forums.wireplay.co.uk/showthread.php?t=318227
On 23 Mar '09 at 10:08 pm Lucas said:
I remember it, too! Every now and then I type “rumble in the void” into my Google search bar… maybe some part of me still hopes that someone will manage to get ritv to run on some server.
On 13 Apr '09 at 10:36 pm D33 said:
Yeah those days were good.
Long gone now though, the Star Trek and Babylon 5 graphic mods, Greap with his coding, etc.
Check out Jumpgate Evolution though, might be of interest to you all =)
On 6 May '09 at 5:46 am Rob said:
Oooh I just got all nostalgic (and bored at work) and searched for Rumble in the Void and found this!
Good times!
Rob
AKA Panaka :)
On 23 Jun '09 at 3:43 pm Jan said:
German Ritv player here. I loved this game from the bottom of my heart. Feel free to contact me for pictures and stuff.
On 19 Jul '09 at 4:05 pm KyonoRocks said:
Damn this was the first multiplayer game I ever played (online). Spent the past hour trying to remember the name, ahh Rumble in the Void. So good!
On 26 Jul '09 at 9:03 pm rychan wr3 said:
Someday…someday, when i have a spare few months i would love to recode it.
Rychan WR3
On 28 Aug '09 at 1:58 am coder4life said:
good times were had making this game with the rest of the crew. glad to see it still has fans. rip.
On 28 Dec '09 at 8:08 am KyonoRocks said:
This was the first multiplayer online game I ever played. Loved it. Would be brilliant if someone could re-release it
On 11 Feb '10 at 5:31 pm Paul said:
Ok, hold your breath no longer!
I’ve found RITV! / Rumble in the void!!!!
go here:
http://www.lucage.dsl.pipex.com/Wireplay/RITV.zip
this is no a spoof :)
obviously no server side to play but its the client if nothing else!
enjoy
Paul
On 11 Feb '10 at 5:47 pm Paul said:
Ok, so it didnt run straight away on xp.
Here’s how i got it running.
Right click exe file, select compatability mode, then select run in 640×480 mode, and Win 98 mode.
Then try to run the game.
It might crash saying certain bmp files couldnt be loaded, if that is the case then simply open the file its erroring on (ex BGHigh.bmp) with photoshop or equivalent, and re-save the bmp file. (8bit compressed).
Now try running it, if it crashes set the options (in options menu) to emulation (not hardware driven).
Just had a quick game with the bots – seems to work ok, im going to see how easy it will be to modify the client code.
Peace RITV lovers.
On 31 Mar '10 at 2:18 pm Ben Gilman said:
Aha, excellent thanks! I’ve been trying to get one of the RITV downloads I’ve found in the past working – no luck until now. I almost don’t want to run it – running old games tends to ruin the magic doesn’t it? :)
On 17 Apr '10 at 9:49 pm Paul said:
Yeah it does sometimes smash the rose tinted glasses a bit!
Did you try it with any success?
Im sure the files would of been on one of the old Wireplay cd’s that came with the BT dialer software.
P.S Fix your date and time code for these posts!
17 OCT 07.. ?
On 7 Jul '10 at 2:40 am KyonoRocks said:
Got it to work. Thanks! Wish there was at least LAN support though, is there a workaround?
So far my rose tinted glasses are intact, even playing with bots is fun… imagine with a bunch of real people..