Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
the mods folder HAS to be there, or you cant even play battlefield 1942, I dont remember if the non patched bf1942 had the mods folder yet but obviously you need