Fight Night Round 3 – Real Online (not Parsec) is playable through an unofficial EA Nation DNS (on PCSX2 or real PS2 hardware)

Yes, it is possible and it is revived. Here's a short tutorial – and take a look at the pics also how to set it up.

First off – you need an active EA Nation DNS to input on your real PS2 hardware, or on PCSX2. The DNS that I know about is: 51.254.141.170

Follow this guide:

– Set this DNS in PCSX2 settings first (it will be in the screenshot) and enable online in the PCSX2 settings

– Go to Fight Night Round 3, Game Modes and "Play Online"

– It will tell you that you don't have an active EA Nation Account

– Create a network configuration, name it however you want

– Then you should advance further to the menu with blue background, where you can edit / add settings – click "Add Setting"

– Then make every setting "Auto" except the "DNS" part where you will need to input the DNS manually

– Input this DNS that I mentioned here before: 51.254.141.170

– Save the DNS setting and complete the configuration and the "test connection" – it should say that it went succesfully

– Now you should be back in the EA Nation menu and you just select your Network Configuration with EA Nation Hub custom config that you set up, and you should succesfully connect to the Fight Night Round 3 online

Now, keep in mind – that this might not work FOR EVERYONE and, that this custom EA Nation DNS might change, you need to look for the new DNS on the internet if it does. It does not work for me, due to NAT issues (my network is nat bound). However, if you don't have those issues you should be fine like Solaris in the picture. You can legitemately fight with other people there, connect – and I guess it even updates your W/L ratio (record), and gives you rank points. If Solaris is down to make a tutorial video about it, then I'll probably make another follow-up post with it. Same DNS works for few other EA sports titles, such as NHL, FIFA. It does not work for FN 2004 but it might for Fight Night Round 2 (I don't exactly remember if it had online or not).

Parsec players, try this out and let me know if that does work for you 🙂

Btw, if you'd make this work – Solaris as far as I remember was interested in playing the official online, drop him a Discord message solaristm or you can ask him any questions about this particular method.