Dear members, hi Guests!
Maybe I'm the only one on this planet who's struggling with some limitations of Hyperlobby, maybe I'm not... who cares?
Either case I decided to help myself to get around an issue which puzzled me a bit in the past:
Get multiple different game versions to run smoothly from a single Hyperlobby instance.
Yes I know, you can have multiple Hyperlobby configurations and use them by attaching command line parameters.
However that's annoying when you open Hyperlobby with one configuration, just to see that the corresponding servers are all empty, then start with another config again, maybe choose the wrong one etc. pp.
This Launcher acts as an intermediate executable which will get started from your single Hyperlobby instance and from which you can select which game to start with which specific configuration.
Additionally to being able to run multiple game versions from a single Hyperlobby, you can as well override your Hyperlobby Username and choose a different one, including special character, spaces etc. here.
Furthermore you can select not to automatically connect straight to the server when the game starts, but instead to manually connect from the "Multiplayer" button in IL-2. In this case the Launcher will have filled in the Server IP and Port for you already, so you just need to click "Connect" to get in. This is particularly useful for those players who tend to suffer from random disconnects. Usually you would have to go all the way back to Hyperlobby and restart your game from the scratch, now you can just reconnect straight from within your game since it will not exit on disconnects anymore.
Long story short, check the sample configuration file "hl_il2_launcher.ini" which is included in this download for further configuration options.
Requirements: This is a .Net 2.0 application, so you need to have the .Net Framework 2.0 or later installed on your PC.
Trust me you have that anyway.
Sample screenshot below, download link at the bottom:
(http://s10.postimg.cc/och1xvwrd/Hyperlobby_IL_2_Launcher.jpg)
(https://www.sas1946.com/images/compatibility/Yes409.png) (https://www.sas1946.com/images/compatibility/Yes410.png) (https://www.sas1946.com/images/compatibility/Yes411.png) (https://www.sas1946.com/images/compatibility/Yes412.png)
Download Links for the SAS Hyperlobby IL-2 Launcher v0.1 (220kB)SAS Hyperlobby IL-2 Launcher v0.1 (Mediafire) (https://www.mediafire.com/download/mcz7mq9o6s6p4fc)
Extract to any folder of your choice and configure Hyperlobby to start this launcher's il2fb.exe instead of the current IL-2 game one, then edit "hl_il2_launcher.ini" to your needs and you're ready to go.
Best regards - Mike