XLink Kai supports GameCube, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One LAN enabled games. XLink also lets players create their own self-moderated Private Arenas. In addition to Game Arenas, Kai has a general chat room and a Quarantine Arena in which moderators can isolate abusive players.
Players in these arenas will be automatically synced to each other, simulating a LAN connection and thus able to play games normally using System Link functions. XLink has "Arenas" for each compatible System Link game, with more popular games such as Halo 2 and SOCOM II having sub-arenas based on regions within them as an attempt to minimize lag. Users log onto XLink's servers using an XTag username, similar to a "Gamertag" for Xbox Live. It is also possible to run the Kai client on other Linux-based devices, such as Raspberry Pi or NAS devices. The Kai client is still required to be running on a computer on the user's network, but players can control connections directly through the console. XLink, listening for these requests, allows other consoles to be found over the internet during this search, making it appear to the player's console that these other consoles are simply connected to the local network.įor modified ("modded") Xbox consoles, much of the functionality can be provided directly within the Xbox Media Center (XBMC for Xbox) GUI. Upon the console initiating a game's "network play" feature, the console's requests are routed to the computer.
XLink Kai acts as tunneling software, installed to a compatible Microsoft Windows, macOS, or Linux computer on the same network as the console.
The purpose of the software is to allow consoles to network with each other over the internet via the consoles' "local network play" capabilities.
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