Axis Arena (FULL VERSION) [MOST RECENT VERSION]

[Zeomn]

yes i think this game is abandonware since it hasn't had an actual server for years

[RVCA]

ive been dying to play this. add me on msn. see my profile on here to get msn profile.

[TheChosenOne896]

Hey I downloaded the files and followed the readme and I can start the menu. But when I click "Play Game" it says I need to install Winsock2. When it starts to install a message appears--> "An error was encountered while installing Winsock2. Setup has been cancelled. See C:\WS2SETUP.LOG for more information."

I have a Dell studio 1535, 17" widescreen, mobile intel 965 chipset, 2.00ghz Duel core, and run Vista home premium... yeah vista sucks am working on getting xp.

Any help or info with this problem is greatly appreciated.

[Weatherlight]

Note: There is no guarantee that the following will help and may damage your computer. If you are unsure about the following instructions, don't fucking attempt them.

Hey I downloaded the files and followed the readme and I can start the menu. But when I click "Play Game" it says I need to install Winsock2. When it starts to install a message appears--> "An error was encountered while installing Winsock2. Setup has been cancelled. See C:\WS2SETUP.LOG for more information."

I have a Dell studio 1535, 17" widescreen, mobile intel 965 chipset, 2.00ghz Duel core, and run Vista home premium... yeah vista sucks am working on getting xp.

Any help or info with this problem is greatly appreciated.

1. On Windows Vista, click Start.
2. Type Run in the Start Search box, and then click Run under Programs.
3. Type Msinfo32, and then click OK. Expand Components, expand Network, and then click Protocol.

You will typically have 10 sections under Protocol. The section headings will include the following names if the Winsock2 key is undamaged:

    * MSAFD Tcpip [TCP/IP]
    * MSAFD Tcpip [UDP/IP]
    * RSVP UDP Service Provider
    * RSVP TCP Service Provider
    * MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip
    * MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip
    * MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip
    * MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip
    * MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip
    * MSAFD NetBIOS [\Device\NetBT_Tcpip

If the names differ from the names in this list, the Winsock2 key is corrupted. Or, you have a third-party add-in, such as proxy software, installed. If you have a third-party add-in installed, the name of the add-in will replace the letters "MSAFD" in the names in this list. If there are more than 10 sections in the list, you have third-party additions installed.

If there are less than 10 sections, there is information missing.

1. On Windows Vista, click Start.
2. Type CMD in the Start Search box, and then right-click CMD under Programs.
3. Click Run as Administrator.
4. Type the following command, and then press ENTER:
netsh winsock reset
5. Restart the computer.


Have fun, enjoy.

[Mantic]

Okay, so I'm late coming to this (I hadn't been to this board since June 2002), but I'm really glad to find that you're distributing this game in a working form. As you probably know, the old RealArcade client is long defunct and it took Axis Arena with it.

Looking at this file you've upped... not sure whether or not it's missing some bits. But it plays so mebbe I'm wrong.

It's so awesome to finally have this game running again -- THANK YOU! I suppose there are no live servers anymore, though, eh?

I can provide the original opening and closing videos (from Jaimie -- I don't remember if RA ever distributed them) if you want to add those to the set here. Just tell me where to e-mail or upload to.

I don't actually remember where the video files were supposed to go. They extract to a Video directory, just like the music installer extracts to a Music directory, but the launcher doesn't appear to detect them for me just putting that in the main directory with this version of the game. They're standard avi's though... so viewable with Windows Media Player or whatever as well.

[TechnicalDeath]

WOW! This actually works! LOL I have been playing this on my old computer and then my old computer died. I forgot my crappy real arcade username and password. Now that I have this, i can go back to playing!

[packleader]

where do i find it

[BDUAres]

Mhaddy has an original copy for sale for $10 CAD.

If you are looking for an illegal pirate copy of the game here though you won't find it. Illegal links have been removed

[barak1001]

Not sure about the laws in the UK, but in the U.S. a forum can not be held responsible for the content added by its users. This ruling has been upheld over and over (just recently it was challenged and upheld when craigslist was sued for their "adult services" section).

The point here is that "illegal" links would only matter if you were given a DMCA order to remove them. If at that point you don't do so then it becomes a legal issue, but before that point you aren't required to police these types of links.

The point being that you're simply making it harder for people to play an older game, while making extra work for yourself by moderating content that currently doesn't require moderation.

[BDUAres]

Actually barak it can now easily be considered criminally illegal, and the site owner could be held civilly liable in court, if it could be shown that in even just one instance that they were aware of the illegal activity posted in their forum and did not remove that link. As the YouTube court case has shown a site admin is not free to do as they please until a DMCA takedown notice is received. As a matter of fact the DMCA 'safe harbor' clause for site owners only applies if 4 separate conditions are met, and one of those conditions is not being "aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent".

Thus if 'infringing activity' is posted in a forum and the site admins see it and do nothing about it, they are culpable. When a post is made with the obvious piracy title of 'Axis Arena (FULL VERSION)' and links to the illegal software are not removed then there are potential legal issues.

This is the problem that has YouTube in such hot water this month. They tried to argue the 'safe harbor' clause of the DMCA that they were not liable for the illegal things their users were uploading and for which they had not yet received takedown notices from anyone. The court found that not only was that a load of crap, but documents (including dozens of Google's and YouTube's own internal emails) were presented proving that the site directors/owners were actively uploading their own illegal content and were making comments to each other about the illegal content that YouTube users had uploaded, which they did not remove and had previously stated they "did not know about" thinking the DMCA clause would cause them to be immune from prosecution. To make matters worse they also violated a 2nd part of the 'safe harbor' clause as they are turning a profit from the videos posted on their site via paid-for advertising. The court also said that it was not the responsibility of the copyright content owners to police other company's websites looking for copyright violations, and it put that onus directly on the site adminstrators themselves. From the court case:

"YouTube has deliberately chosen not to take reasonable precautions to deter the rampant infringement on its site. Because YouTube directly profits from the availability of popular infringing works on its site, it has decided to shift the burden entirely onto copyright owners to monitor the YouTube site on a daily or hourly basis to detect infringing videos.

YouTube's brazen disregard of the intellectual-property laws fundamentally threatens not just plaintiffs but the economic underpinnings of one of the most important sectors of the United States economy."

As of right now they stand to face criminal charges and have still ongoing civil court sessions, the evidence against them is concrete and overwhelming, and it remains to be seen whether YouTube, and it's parent company Google, will survive the aftermath of Viacom's $1 BILLION+ lawsuit that was filed October 6th in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, for more than 100,000 DMCA violations.

Here's a copy of Viacom's court complaint


Here's the legalese of the 'knowledge of infringement' part of the 4 part 'safe harbor' clause in the DMCA, designed to give online services a measure of protection from liability for infringing materials uploaded to their sites - as long as they meet a certain criteria, including:

A)(i) The services don't have actual knowledge that the material, or an activity using the material on the system or network, is infringing.

(ii) in the absence of such actual knowledge, is not aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent; or

(iii) upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness, acts expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material.

Craigslist is a very bad example to compare this to as it was something very different but, even so, Craigslist got in enough trouble that their 'Erotic Services' section nationwide was removed, they created an 'Adult Section', and that must be manually monitored by live Craigslist staff. No ads may be now placed in the Adult Section without first being sceened by a live Craigslist employee, one at a time, just like a physical newspaper ad must be gone over by a live editor.

However the Craigslist situation and this forum are apples and oranges. The Craigslist scenario was them being sued by law enforcement for ads for 'adult dancing' and 'massage' that law enforcement officials said were really for prostitutes. The law enforcement agencies were incorrect to use the DMCA as the basis for their suits, which were subsequently thrown out of court with the reason being given that Craigslist was not liable for ads posted for one thing (legal) that turned out to be for another thing (illegal) and that the law enforcement agencies would have to prosecute the ad placers themselves if the 'dancing' or 'massage' ads actually turned out to be for prostitution service as the DCMA did not apply to this sort of thing. This scenario is completely different from any posts of illegal copyrighted materials, links to them, or even just lists of where they could be found - which is what got Pirate Bay busted.

[barak1001]

You obviously didn't read my reply. Once you took action and moderated the post you made it clear that you were aware of the material. If you had not taken any action you are "unaware" of the content for the purpose of the law.

You talk about apples and oranges. In the case of the piratebay it received literally THOUSANDS of take down notices, which it ignored.

Even in your example Youtube received take down notices that it also ignored. The point being that you can basically ignore links like this until such time as you get a take down order. Regardless of any amount of chest pounding by the lawyers for whatever company, forums ARE protected by law from the content that's contained on them.

If you need a practical example of this, the CAN site had links to a torrent of Starsiege for a while, VU games sent them a takedown order, and they took it down. No civil suits involved.

Find me one example of a forum that has links to illegal material that receives a takedown order, obeys the order, then gets sued.

All you've done is to enforce my point of view, that removing content before a takedown order is pointless.

[Mhaddy]

If you need a practical example of this, the CAN site had links to a torrent of Starsiege for a while, VU games sent them a takedown order, and they took it down. No civil suits involved.

I received this same takedown notice and you'll note that all known references to said download on this forum have been removed.

[barak1001]

Point being that once the company in question contacts you, you take action. I've always found sites that did "pre-emptive moderation" to irritate the hell out of me. Always makes me picture them as "working for the man".

Anyway, all this is pointless since you've announced that you're aware that the thread exists, it makes the entire conversation from that point moot. Except as it applies to moderation of the site in the future.

I used to take an active role in sites I was admin/modertator on. Then I figured out that it's better to wait on an email telling me someone clicked the report button. That way I'm not constantly micro managing something that doesn't need to be micro managed.

[Mhaddy]

Well there's a difference between micro managing and being proactive. I'd rather Ares do what he's currently doing to curb the distribution of warez on this site than be slapped with something that increases my blood pressure.

[Weatherlight]

Well there's a difference between micro managing and being proactive. I'd rather Ares do what he's currently doing to curb the distribution of warez on this site than be slapped with something that increases my blood pressure.

But I thought you liked it when I did stuff that raised your blood pressure... me and grey have been laughing about it for years now.