XTEA Database

**Sini** · 02-01-12

The XTEA database, was a project that I and Jarrod founded nearly a month ago in the hopes to be used for other interests in Evelus and to help promote a single repository that emulation developers could use for all their map data needs. Evelus is proud to announce our XTEA verification server and database is near completion. All the keys currently on database have been verified with the server and were passed from the add your own to our server. It is a huge achievement and this is the first ever website addition of this type in Runescape emulation. It was a massive team effort to try and push for an Alpha version to be done today and the actual release date was yesterday, but obviously we didn't make the deadline. Still we were very close and me and Ramon pushed through to finish the server today.

For of those who are not familiar with the term XTEA or map data: around the time of revision 414 Jagex started encrypting some of their game files with an XTEA encryption that uses a 128 bit key, or 4 integers, to access the landscape files which contain where game objects should be located and such. It has been very hard for emulation developers to develop because without these map data keys or XTEA keys, they cannot play the game in it's fullness. XTEA keys are usually dumped on each update but sometimes their are gaps as to when the keys become available to people and we hope by building a large database of these keys emulation can prosper.

If you haven't noticed: the amount of pages on the database right now is 162. That is a massive amount of data! We are hoping to make it very user friendly and to create a more efficient system so that you guys are not just staring at numbers and scratching your head. Interactive maps are a possibility, so look forward to that. You are welcome to submit your map data files but I must mention that for right now we only support commonly encoded and packed map data files. We can detect when a packed file is corrupt so do not worry about that.

Alpha Version of the XTEA Database

This is one of the projects for my development site I am working on. This was one of the posts that I made from the development blog and currently we have about 2,000 verified entries. We are in need of ideas and suggestions and anything is appriciated.