Well, my friend and I wanted to play Tony Hawks Pro Skater 4 online together. Few problems, my friend no longer has a ps2, and even if he did, the servers for this game are long gone. So, we thought for a bit and came to the idea of playing the PC version online. So, we both got the game. We tried setting up a game on GameSpy, it simply wouldn’t work for some reason. I thought for a bit and remembered that people were using Hamachi to setup a virtual type LAN configuration. This would work! We would finally be able to play THPS4 together like we did back when I was 13 years old!
Few more problems, however 
We just thought starting up Hamachi was going to be enough. Not so. You have to make sure Hamachi is the default network adapter so the game uses it. That’s simple enough, right? Here’s a short guide of what we did to do that.
Click start –> Settings –> Control Panel –> Network & Internet Connections –> Network Connections –> Look where File, Edit, etc are located and find Advanced –> Advanced Settings –> Click on the Hamachi adapter and click up. A reboot will be required.
Now that was done on both of our computers, everything should work, right? Not so. He could ping me, but I could not ping him through Hamachi. We finally narrowed it down to his Anti-Virus program, once he killed that I could ping him.
Now everything should work, right!? No. We couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t see his host in the game. Long story short, you cannot minimize the game while hosting, or else it kills the host. Now I could connect, and we were able to play just like we used to.Very cool.
I hope this helps someone if they’re trying to setup a LAN server through Hamachi for a game. It can be a pain at first.
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Here’s a youtube video showing in game footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzrXTKnIkfs
UPDATE: I was able to convince my friend azlesk8er to take a cap of him hitting 26 million. Here is his video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4bFR0VMA9s
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Good to read that you are sharing knowledge.
Knowledge grows if shared.
Thankyou Buddy Thankyou !
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Yes, online gaming with Hamachi isn’t very well documented. So I thought this post might be useful for someone
The youtube video I did for fun mostly 