• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 00:48
CEST 06:48
KST 13:48
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Classic wins Code S Season 2 (2025)10Code S RO4 & Finals Preview: herO, Rogue, Classic, GuMiho0TL Team Map Contest #5: Presented by Monster Energy4Code S RO8 Preview: herO, Zoun, Bunny, Classic7Code S RO8 Preview: Rogue, GuMiho, Solar, Maru3
Community News
Weekly Cups (June 9-15): herO doubles on GSL week0Firefly suspended by EWC, replaced by Lancer12Classic & herO RO8 Interviews: "I think it’s time to teach [Rogue] a lesson."2Rogue & GuMiho RO8 interviews: "Lifting that trophy would be a testament to all I’ve had to overcome over the years and how far I’ve come on this journey.8Code S RO8 Results + RO4 Bracket (2025 Season 2)14
StarCraft 2
General
Nexon wins bid to develop StarCraft IP content, distribute Overwatch mobile game Rogue EWC 2025 Hype Video! Classic wins Code S Season 2 (2025) Rain's Behind the Scenes Storytime Firefly suspended by EWC, replaced by Lancer
Tourneys
$5,100+ SEL Season 2 Championship (SC: Evo) RSL: Revival, a new crowdfunded tournament series SOOPer7s Showmatches 2025 SOOP Starcraft Global #22 $3,500 WardiTV European League 2025
Strategy
How did i lose this ZvP, whats the proper response Simple Questions Simple Answers [G] Darkgrid Layout
Custom Maps
[UMS] Zillion Zerglings
External Content
Mutation # 478 Instant Karma Mutation # 477 Slow and Steady Mutation # 476 Charnel House Mutation # 475 Hard Target
Brood War
General
ASL20 Preliminary Maps BW General Discussion BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ Recent recommended BW games FlaSh Witnesses SCV Pull Off the Impossible vs Shu
Tourneys
[BSL20] GosuLeague RO16 - Tue & Wed 20:00+CET [BSL20] ProLeague Bracket Stage - WB Finals & LBR3 [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL 2v2] ProLeague Season 3 - Friday 21:00 CET
Strategy
Simple Questions, Simple Answers I am doing this better than progamers do. [G] How to get started on ladder as a new Z player
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread Path of Exile Beyond All Reason What do you want from future RTS games?
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Vanilla Mini Mafia TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
UK Politics Mega-thread US Politics Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Echoes of Revolution and Separation
Fan Clubs
SKT1 Classic Fan Club! Maru Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Korean Music Discussion [Manga] One Piece
Sports
NHL Playoffs 2024 2024 - 2025 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
A Better Routine For Progame…
TrAiDoS
StarCraft improvement
iopq
Heero Yuy & the Tax…
KrillinFromwales
I was completely wrong ab…
jameswatts
Need Your Help/Advice
Glider
Trip to the Zoo
micronesia
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 31345 users

iCCup server maintenance nostalgia

Blogs > Mutaller
Post a Reply
Mutaller
Profile Blog Joined July 2013
United States1051 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-08-25 19:21:09
August 25 2022 19:20 GMT
#1
I started playing SC around 2010 when there was SC2 hype. I didn't have a computer to play SC2 on so I got into Brood War and I loved it. I eventually found iCCup and joined clan [MB] (Maximus Brood), and older legendary EU clan. Anyway iCCup had server maintenance every once and awhile, and we would migrate to a b.net, or Korean server during that time. We would have to download a different anti hack like chaos launcher or wlauncher. We would host obs games and use #L2 to set the latency to something that would work for 8 people. Some obs maps didn't have enough obs slots so a player would have to select terran and kill their scvs and lift. The cool players would have their scv's repair around a vespene geyser making a merry-go-round. So now with the official b.net servers down and there being a migration to shield battery, it feels very reminiscent of iccup server maintenance. I kind of hope shield battery can catch on and become the next iccup. I think if it were to have a clan system and integrated tournament setting it would.

Cheers,

Mutaller

*****
"To practice isn't for you to get better now in the present. Practice will never betray you and will always come back for you in the future." -Jaedong
HerbMon
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States460 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-08-27 06:28:26
August 27 2022 06:28 GMT
#2
www.youtube.com
Your post made me think of this video. If you went to iccup website during maintenance this would play on repeat.
How we will win in the period ahead.
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24660 Posts
August 27 2022 21:00 GMT
#3
Wow that video was a blast from the past hahaha.

I was mostly active on iCCup in its earlier days but I don't remember having much trouble with maintenance.
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
Jubinell
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
333 Posts
August 29 2022 09:10 GMT
#4
Speaking of which, why doesn't iCcup work with Remastered? And how come Shield Battery can?
Xeofreestyler
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
Belgium6768 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-08-30 16:39:36
August 30 2022 16:36 GMT
#5
On August 27 2022 15:28 HerbMon wrote:
www.youtube.com
Your post made me think of this video. If you went to iccup website during maintenance this would play on repeat.


the jazz version is still a banger


And to stay on topic: Agreed! I hope SB becomes the new standard. Can't trust "blizzard" with anything anymore anyway.
Graphics
GeckoXp
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
Germany2016 Posts
August 30 2022 19:17 GMT
#6
i miss telling people that the maintenance is just another way to ruin brood war forever, whenever i got asked if we deleted the server or something
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
August 31 2022 01:02 GMT
#7
On August 29 2022 18:10 Jubinell wrote:
Speaking of which, why doesn't iCcup work with Remastered? And how come Shield Battery can?

If my understanding is correct, iCCup is essentially a private server for 1.16.1, hence why they provided you with the ability to download BW off the site, while SB is more of an interface that allows you to play BW through it, which is why it can record points, has its own ladder and netcode etc...
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
tec27
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States3696 Posts
September 01 2022 01:47 GMT
#8
On August 29 2022 18:10 Jubinell wrote:
Speaking of which, why doesn't iCcup work with Remastered? And how come Shield Battery can?

ICCup is/was a slightly modified version of PvPGN, which was basically a server that emulated an official Battle.net server. To the game client code, it was connecting to an "official" server, just one that was at a different-than-normal address (thus, the setup for ICCup was just to modify your list of available servers to include that new address). The upside to that approach is that you don't have to to modify the client at all. The downside is that you have all of the same limitations that normal BNet has with regards to its features, network protocol, UI, etc.

With ShieldBattery we wanted to expand the features significantly and it required a very different UI, so abandoning the idea of emulating BNet was central to its development, and we never depended on emulating those servers. Our approach was always to run our own servers and configure games programmatically (through reverse-engineered code paths), even on 1.16.

With the launch of SC:R, older BNet servers were replaced with new ones, with completely different protocols, and no one has undertaken a project like PvPGN to emulate them. Thus, there is no server for ICCup to run, they would either have to build such a thing (huge task), or take a very different approach (also a huge task). With ShieldBattery, we had to put in a fair amount of work changing how we configured/launched the game, but we were able to keep using all our existing server/UI/network code. (We also have active developers that actually care about BW, which helps a bit too )
Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace?
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Online Event
00:00
LATAM SC2 League: FINALS
Liquipedia
Replay Cast
00:00
2025 GSL S2 - Playoffs
Liquipedia
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft: Brood War
PianO 198
Leta 149
Light 107
JulyZerg 69
Noble 17
Dota 2
monkeys_forever606
League of Legends
JimRising 648
Cuddl3bear1
Counter-Strike
Stewie2K958
taco 390
Coldzera 266
PGG 72
Super Smash Bros
hungrybox533
Heroes of the Storm
Khaldor118
Trikslyr42
Other Games
summit1g5080
C9.Mang01126
shahzam837
RuFF_SC282
Mew2King79
NeuroSwarm38
kaitlyn22
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick1025
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 16 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• Berry_CruncH280
• practicex 94
• OhrlRock 5
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Doublelift7356
• Lourlo1173
• Stunt355
Upcoming Events
The PondCast
5h 12m
RSL Revival
5h 12m
Harstem vs SHIN
Solar vs Cham
WardiTV Invitational
7h 12m
ByuN vs Reynor
Clem vs MaxPax
OSC
7h 42m
Replay Cast
19h 12m
RSL Revival
1d 5h
Reynor vs Scarlett
ShoWTimE vs Classic
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
1d 10h
SOOP
2 days
Cure vs Zoun
SC Evo League
2 days
Road to EWC
2 days
[ Show More ]
SOOP Global
2 days
Future vs MaNa
Harstem vs Cham
BSL: ProLeague
2 days
Sziky vs JDConan
Cross vs MadiNho
Hawk vs Bonyth
Circuito Brasileiro de…
2 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
3 days
Road to EWC
3 days
BSL: ProLeague
3 days
UltrA vs TBD
Dewalt vs TBD
Replay Cast
5 days
Online Event
5 days
Replay Cast
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Acropolis #3 - GSC
2025 GSL S2
Heroes 10 EU

Ongoing

JPL Season 2
BSL 2v2 Season 3
BSL Season 20
Acropolis #3
KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 2
NPSL S3
Rose Open S1
CSL 17: 2025 SUMMER
Copa Latinoamericana 4
RSL Revival: Season 1
Murky Cup #2
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 7
IEM Dallas 2025
PGL Astana 2025
Asian Champions League '25
BLAST Rivals Spring 2025
MESA Nomadic Masters
CCT Season 2 Global Finals
IEM Melbourne 2025
YaLLa Compass Qatar 2025
PGL Bucharest 2025

Upcoming

CSLPRO Last Chance 2025
CSLPRO Chat StarLAN 3
K-Championship
uThermal 2v2 Main Event
SEL Season 2 Championship
Esports World Cup 2025
HSC XXVII
Championship of Russia 2025
BLAST Open Fall 2025
Esports World Cup 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall Qual
IEM Cologne 2025
FISSURE Playground #1
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.