im donkjam, used to be a big part in this section back in the day about 5-10 year ago, id like to know peoples opinions on how much the scene has changed, is it for the better? do you prefer old school or what it is now\?
The scene is slightly superior now in several regards, mainly due to the budding communities outside of the forum. For example there is tooling that literally injects itself into the Habbo client, cracks the crypto (HabKit) and logs it for you (Tanji) and does it for every new client so far, not only that but it can create hashes of the Flash code and trash said hashes so you can follow a header across versions till the bytecode for the client changes! Arachis and the people involved with Tanji did an amazing job on Tanji. We have so much tooling to tweak the client it's insane (Harmonic's community efforts are proof that RZ and OS - now defunct were not doing much to build up this part of the community, and that due to that it just stagnated, I got into a heated debate over this many moons ago at least in regards to RaGEZONE). Also due to a top secret Discord we've got the Lingo source code to old habbo, and there has been a lot of thriving work in that space, we know secrets about the Habbo client that only people like Matthew Parlane knew back in 2008, and of course Sulake staff. We've also got a growing collection of old developers and some new ones on said Discord. Amazing what happens when you build up the developer community instead of trash on it.
Not to mention the healthy looking attempts at making a Habbo Client that mimic the original protocols. We have a thread for Dragon on this board, but there's also Nitro which looks really promising. Habbo could compile their code for raw x86 Assembly and we can carry on with custom clients that run any existing emulator on HTML5 for all we care.
If you wish to know about any of what I've mentioned feel free to DM me, do not want to pollute the thread.
As much as I don't like Wesley the whole fiasco with arcturus & "arcturus morningstar" was shocking. Could've just created a competing implementation using the same database instead of stealing someone's code/IP.
I don't think it's a big deal. This is a private server community, reverse engineering is literally the entire premise, anybody who doesn't get that knows where the door is. I find it kind of funny that anybody would assume any software license matters to people in this community considering what it does.
But more importantly,
Arcturus is GPL licensed, it is literally within everyone's rights to fork the damn thing, if he doesn't like it, he needs to get over using the wrong software license. I think I even warned him about his license on his development thread. There's a reason I never touch GPL code directly. He needs to grow up and face the music.
People who want to be dicks will always find a way to be one. The easiest thing to do is to just take something you're proud of and mess with that. Meh its been a year and they're still dicking around in the old cold base and not really adding any features.
This coming from the guy whom I literally tried to mend ways with a few times, but you always did and still spew misinformation, so you got mad when I called you out on things. Looking at your code there is literally 0 reason for your nasty attitude my friend. People even warned you of bugs and exploits that are being patched to this day because of sheer incompetence. If you want my advise: humility is key to being a good developer. We all make mistakes, all of us, not because we're bad, but because we're human. Take a life lesson from Joopie on how to be a decent human being. His contributions to the scene far outweigh yours. Literally to this day people use his crypto keys.
Sections not the same without you, I quit when you left, it was heart breaking
You could of avoided a lot of trouble if you really did quit when Donkjam did tbh.
As for the actual thread: A lot has changed, I mentioned most of it in response to Donkjam. There's a few other emulators in the works that are interesting. The community has had people who code emulators but absolutely never post a development thread or any releases for a long time, these people think you guys are degenerates and for a reasonable portion they may be right given all the drama that goes on this community (including outside of these mere forums). If you guys ever learn to get along maybe more people would post actual projects that aren't awful.