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Hey everyone, I think it's time to announce this emulator publicly. I started this emulator in the summer of 2018, because at the time there was another person who had announced his emulator, but didn't release any of his research publicly, which he is entitled to, but I am not a fan of withholding research especially for dead games, so I wanted to build an emulator myself and make sure all my research was public, and so with the help of a small group of people who provided me various research materials, I was able to get started and make some progress. Things ended up going a little sour with them and I ended up stopping completely on the emulator.
Fast forward to the beginning of this year, I felt the itch to work on the emulator again. So I unpacked all my work I had done and got back to it. I ended up getting further with it, in that I got to the character list and was able to populate it with some dummy data and start the loading screen process of entering the world. It was at this time that I didn't like how the internals were, and I had made some discoveries related to the protocol. So I went on a journey to rewrite the packet internals. I've just mostly completed it and have been currently converting the old packet methods into the new methods but ran into some issues, which has caused me to want to take a short break from working on the emulator which is the reason why I decided that now is a good time to announce the emulator, and release the work I've done so far.
The emulator is FAR from complete, in it's current state it won't go to the server list yet, this is due to the client not liking the packet we send to it. So I am looking for any sort of assistance to help bring this emulator further. There is a discord also if you want more real time discussion about the emulator, or help in any way. I will not be linking it here for obvious reasons, but you can find the link to it within the repo.
Fast forward to the beginning of this year, I felt the itch to work on the emulator again. So I unpacked all my work I had done and got back to it. I ended up getting further with it, in that I got to the character list and was able to populate it with some dummy data and start the loading screen process of entering the world. It was at this time that I didn't like how the internals were, and I had made some discoveries related to the protocol. So I went on a journey to rewrite the packet internals. I've just mostly completed it and have been currently converting the old packet methods into the new methods but ran into some issues, which has caused me to want to take a short break from working on the emulator which is the reason why I decided that now is a good time to announce the emulator, and release the work I've done so far.
The emulator is FAR from complete, in it's current state it won't go to the server list yet, this is due to the client not liking the packet we send to it. So I am looking for any sort of assistance to help bring this emulator further. There is a discord also if you want more real time discussion about the emulator, or help in any way. I will not be linking it here for obvious reasons, but you can find the link to it within the repo.
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