News

Elma Online will be getting a new IP tomorrow January 15th at 12:00 EET. The new IP will be: 208.113.166.227 Simply change this in eolconf.exe after noon tomorrow and you will be good.

67.205.61.41

Due to changes to the current service at the host, we have to move to a different kind of server. Most importantly this means a new ip. The change will happen in 26 hours from now on december 2nd at 02:00 EET. The new server is live now so you can test it out right now, just change the ip in eolconf. It runs with a near empty database atm. So far it's working well, but if you run into any issues write a comment.

Elasto Mania was mentioned on today's xkcd comic #1360 - old files. Have a look at http://xkcd.com !

The Elma Online server had a move at the host provider which means it has a new IP.

New IP: 205.196.222.34

Please change the setting in eolconf.exe to this new IP, to connect to EOL.

The Moposite crew wishes all the kuskis great holidays!

I have some intresting news.

We have been working for a few months with Kopaka to make Paprika ready. I have lowered my original plans a little bit but the result should be good enough when considering the realities. Then we can finally close the OLD and start concentrating on just one site (NEW).

In addition I've been browsing through my own computer, web sites, Mopolauta and other places for Elma stuff. The goal is to make a huge collection of cool Elma stuff (I'm calling it Elma Ultimate) which will be published later, of course. I've collected about 5-6 GB myself (with help of lists and archives made by other people) but now I request for your help. Check out the list of the contents (levels) and if you have something that is missing, please send it to me somehow (IRC, email to abu at moposite com or Mopolauta) and I might add it. Also if you think something shouldn't be included in the collection, please tell me.

While collecting the stuff I discovered many great things people have created during the years I've been inactive. I'm going to write more detailed news of the best ones when more important things are done (Paprika, Elma Ultimate).

My personal deadline for both projects is the end of this year. Let's hope we will make it.

If you have problems connecting to belma server, make sure you have the new IP address set in belmaServerConf.exe. The IP address is now 90.228.192.146.

The Moposite crew wishes all the kuskis enjoyable holidays!

• ElmaConf12wide: with this version of the config tool for Elma 1.2 you can get widscreen resolutions
• Elma Online Beta: with this you can play the multiplayer option of Elma online, read the readme file for installation instructions

Development work can be followed and participated in the New versions forum of Mopolauta. Hopefully all these new things will be added to just one patch, which could be called Elma 1.3.

milagros made a patch for playing Elma levels online. Unlike the eol patch, you cannot play multiplayer, because everyone has their own apples to pick. In Ballelma, you play alone, but you can see everyone else on the same level as you. This creates a whole new experience when for example playing battles. Or your team can invent styles
together in a cup event.

Players are identifiable by different shirts, that are defined by BMP images. The download contains quite a few images, but more can be downloaded from Viper_KillerGuy's page.

Download Ballelma.

Please note that Ballelma is still in early development, it is rather stable now but crashes may occur. There are installation instructions in the bs9_readme.txt file. For now, I am running the only, temporary server so far (IP 81.231.66.238, may change).

If you are connecting through a router and can't see the other players, you have to make sure that NAT (network address translation) is off, or enable port forwarding. More help.

If you have a Windows and/or Linux server that can be used as a more reliable alternative, please contact milagros. The server program is very small and uses very little memory and CPU, the only thing that needs to be fairly good is the Internet connection.

For some cool sreenshots, visit veezay's site. Some videos.

#ballelma in IRCnet is the irc channel for the competition.

milagros released a new Elma patch, Elma Online beta, about a month ago. It was patched to the Very final 1.2 which was released on Moposite a few days ago.

By using the Elma Online beta you can multiplay over internet. It might be a bit laggy but at least axxu and rawl managed to drive two WRs by using it. It's recommended to use Skype, Teamtalk or something similar to get communicating easier.

• Mopolauta topic
• Download the Elma Online beta

There really is no place for EOL on Paprika yet and I move hosting it further to future.

Hibernatus has coded a brand new Elasto Mania 1.2 unofficial version offering many new features.. wait! That was three years ago! Yes, we are very well aware of that and as a main central of Elasto Mania community we should have released the new patch alot earlier. Our sincerest apologies for the delay.

However, we would like to come clear the actual reasons for the delay. The most important reason was that as we have high standards, we must carefully evaluate all the new patches to see whether or not they should be published - which basicly means checking for bugs and so on, because we don't want to confuse people with first a release and th en a bug fix right after. Of course there are many sound arguments against this reasoning, and we might eventually change our standards. One other important reason for the delay was the famous editor bug in the Final version. We wanted to have a solution for that and apparently Hibernatus fixed it for us after we requested it. This happened about one year ago. Also, we had planned on releasing the 1.2 at the same time with Paprika and I thought it wouldn't take more than a month or something. But as it turns out, it took alot longer than that! But anyway, here we have it.

This Very final 1.2 should be totally bug free, no known bugs involved:

• XP lag bug is fixed
• Across levels work in total time counter (they were problematic for example in Hoyla Mission total time calculating)
• The editor bug is fixed

A brief summary of the new things in Elma 1.2 compared to 1.11a:

• New options such as screen resolution, zoom, centered camera, replay saving reminder and possibility to edit locked levels
• Lev-Packs
• Advanced fast search in menus
• Merging replays
• Alovolt, brake alias and esc alias keys
• VCR-style controls when watching replays

A detailed list can be read on the Elma12.txt and some other information on the Elasto Mania information page.

Download the patch.