How do I make the latest MapleStory Private Server?

[Halcyon]

Another reason that deters people from releasing on here, is the way the community treats each other.

"Oh, you released a NPC I have no use for? Oh, how useless and retarded! I'm better than you, and I should explain why and how I'm better then you, and how much more of an asshole I am than you as well!"

or

"You can't code the latest version? What are you, gay? v83 is old and washed up and it's all about the latest version, baby, with the same features every fucking time, with the same exact servers being released by the same 3 people every time. I am much better at stealing content from Nexon aka Coding better than you."

That's why people talk shit about this place. You don't get likes or thanks. You get shit talked about, you get egotistic fuckers bitching at others because they want to.

The worst of all of course is the fact that little kids comes on these forums, see it's an easy way to make money, code a little shitty server just to make money off of dumbasses. If someone were to release the latest version, shit would hit the fan because money would be stolen like daylight robbery.

tl;dr: People getting shit talked about, people being assholes, people jerking themselves off, and money being stolen from kids online. Also, making the latest version is indeed a bitch, I never tried it, but looking at the latest version sources, it just looks like a nightmare.

stl;dr: You would have a better time coding your own game from scratch.

[Cartoondude135]

@Cartoondude135
No one will help you because making private servers, especially at the latest version, is a carefully guarded secret due to the immense number of hours needed. I would honestly buy a fully working source for 10k because the amount of money you'd make just by running a server greatly exceeds that. It doesn't matter if you are only going to run it for yourself since that's like saying you'll take something worth 2500 for free and just won't share it. No one will do it. It takes hundreds of hours to go from a public source to a working latest version source. There is no cracked version. We all code it ourselves from scratch. No one will ever give up something that good in today's climate.

I see............ Maybe that explains why many Private Server sites removed my thread as private servers are something Nexon does object to. And yeah, I can see why getting the latest version is going to be as tough as hand digging gold from a gold mine old-school style (without modern machinery, weak hand tools, etc.).

[Cartoondude135]

And yeah, How do I make the latest Private Server? - MapleStory This was really helpful. In fact, it made me want to vomit after reading this, because this shows they're not telling me the full story! They're just using this as an excuse to cover their tracks!

BTW, you wouldn't believe what happened next! ZeroByDivide's in-person chat with the Nexon Team - MapleStory I got banned for 1 week for "promoting" private servers! I wasn't even promoting any private server sites, yet they go above and beyond and ban me anyway! Well, one thing's for certain now: THEY'RE GONNA PAY FOR THIS!!!!!!!!

Hell, not even talking some sense into them about these sort of benefits worked either! Think About This when Cheating Online Games - MapleStory

[LazyBui]

I'm going to pluck out the questions from .. the rest of that.

So my big question here is how do you make the latest version of a MS Private Server? Like, do they break into Nexon's HQ and extract all the sprites, maps, sound effects, etc off their computers and then reconstruct it like a jigsaw puzzle?

No, they don't do that. All of the things that you understand as "the game" - the things you list - are included with the client. If the client was programmed differently, you could play everything without connecting to a server. You can do most of that with a barebones server, although there are some exceptions. The server's primary purpose is to accept messages from clients and synchronize with all of the other clients and with the backing data storage. Sometimes processing is needed.

This incidentally answers the question of how. You need to figure out what messages are sent, when they're sent, how they vary, and what you need to do in response.

While we're on this topic about hacking, why are bots bad? I never hacked before, but as a good player from GMS, the only good use I see for them is that they can allow me to farm mesos while I do house chores. Of course, I could call in my human friend to play MS for me while I make breakfast/lunch/dinner, do laundry, etc. So why are bots taboo to mmorpg moderators like MapleStory?

There are some philosophical discussions about it, but I don't care about that. What interests me here is that you'd compare a human being to software that costs pennies of electricity per month and requires no rest or maintenance whatsoever. These two things are not comparable. Also the way you talk about your human "friend" seems to imply that you consider people your tools. How do you plan on reliably getting a human to grind for you, anyway?

A side question: why or how are Private Servers bad? Besides the fact that they allow you to play the game and get stuff absolutely free, I don't see how Private Servers are bad. Also, when you create a Private Server, do you as the admin, get a Wizet Invincible Hat?

You're asking the first question in the wrong place. I don't think anybody here is opposed to private servers - which is not a proper noun, by the way. Yes, when you are the admin, you can get the hat. I would think this to be reasonably self-evident. Who do you think you'd ask for items when you're the admin? Who would tell you not to do that?

Also, how do I safeguard my PS from Nexon so they don't find it?

Don't advertise it. If you run it locally without exposing the ports, there are no ways to find it.

Plus, can't you compare a v83 Private Server to a discontinued game console like the Gamecube or the PlayStation 1? How can we play an old game from many years ago without a machine that's capable of doing so?

You might and it could be appropriate in some context. Broadly speaking, no. There are numerous important differences between these things. First off, MapleStory is a single software program. The consoles are hardware that run many different software programs. Secondly, you can still play the old games that you have. Nothing in the consoles stops you from doing this. If you were to compare it to a console, it would be a bit more appropriate to compare it to the Wii or some other console that has shut down its servers. But even then you can still play the games you have on the Wii.

Also, can't you compare a MMORPG Private Server to a Jailbreak (such as IAP Cracker and Installous) for iPod Touches/iPhones/iPads?

Again, it could be appropriate in some context. Broadly speaking, no. Different laws apply to hardware and software and being able to run anything you want on hardware that you've paid for is completely different from running some gratis software that the company doesn't support anymore.

Oh, 1 more thing. Besides internet service, how does a Private Server require funds to run?

You need a database or backing storage of some kind, CPU time, memory, bandwidth, IP addresses that don't change or DNS entries. You get many of these things through hosting and none of it is free.

ok. Having answered the questions, please kill the weird post formatting. I'm not a retard, I don't need strange word or sentence emphasis every couple lines. Additionally, you write like 20 pages of emotive language and I'm not sure why. It doesn't help with the questions you're asking or to clarify anything for somebody that might answer them. It wastes their time. This is probably why you got TL;DR responses. To be fair, they don't owe you anything. Maybe you do see people as your tools? If not, you should consider scaling back the extraneous information when you're asking questions.

[ALotOfPosts]

And yeah, How do I make the latest Private Server? - MapleStory This was really helpful. In fact, it made me want to vomit after reading this, because this shows they're not telling me the full story! They're just using this as an excuse to cover their tracks!

BTW, you wouldn't believe what happened next! ZeroByDivide's in-person chat with the Nexon Team - MapleStory I got banned for 1 week for "promoting" private servers! I wasn't even promoting any private server sites, yet they go above and beyond and ban me anyway! Well, one thing's for certain now: THEY'RE GONNA PAY FOR THIS!!!!!!!!

Hell, not even talking some sense into them about these sort of benefits worked either! Think About This when Cheating Online Games - MapleStory

You need to stop typing like you're 10. It's extremely unprofessional and makes it so you are hard to take seriously. You do not need to use that many exclamation marks or talk like you are always excited. I'm starting to think your IQ is about the same number as your height in inches.

[Cartoondude135]

Well the thing is, since you can't see my body, I need to find some sort of way to display my feelings or emotions through comments, chats, etc. So with bold, italics, underlines, etc, I can show my feelings this way.

[CodySP]

Another reason that deters people from releasing on here, is the way the community treats each other.

"Oh, you released a NPC I have no use for? Oh, how useless and retarded! I'm better than you, and I should explain why and how I'm better then you, and how much more of an asshole I am than you as well!"

or

"You can't code the latest version? What are you, gay? v83 is old and washed up and it's all about the latest version, baby, with the same features every fucking time, with the same exact servers being released by the same 3 people every time. I am much better at stealing content from Nexon aka Coding better than you."

That's why people talk shit about this place. You don't get likes or thanks. You get shit talked about, you get egotistic fuckers bitching at others because they want to.

The worst of all of course is the fact that little kids comes on these forums, see it's an easy way to make money, code a little shitty server just to make money off of dumbasses. If someone were to release the latest version, shit would hit the fan because money would be stolen like daylight robbery.

tl;dr: People getting shit talked about, people being assholes, people jerking themselves off, and money being stolen from kids online. Also, making the latest version is indeed a bitch, I never tried it, but looking at the latest version sources, it just looks like a nightmare.

stl;dr: You would have a better time coding your own game from scratch.

Pretty much this

it's also a good reason why you don't see many help threads anymore. I've been lucky recently, but you're just as likely to be insulted and ridiculed for not knowing the answer to the question you're asking as you are to actually get some help. So a lot of people are really reserved and hesitant to ask for it in the first place. You also get a lot of "Your release is awful because your code could have been shorter and more efficient even though it still operates as intended" Back when I registered, you could scroll through pages and pages of new stuff almost weekly. MapleStory was crazy popular and everyone had crazy ideas of how to do cool new things.

In defense of the remaining people in /f427 and related, there's been an ever increasing gap in understanding between the experts and the people asking for help, so much so that even though they gave you a solution, it's given to you in sometimes advanced terminology that someone less versed in Java doesn't understand, it then becomes increasingly more frustrating for the people helping to try and break it down for people (People like me for example!)

But with the way things are now, you kind of lose the middle ground, so what you're left with are people who are spectacular at what they do, but don't have the patience, experience and/or desire to effectively teach and people who have absolutely no idea what they're doing but are (in most cases) making an honest effort to try and learn. One thing I've learned: Java is hard. It's hard to break into.

[retep998]

One thing I've learned: Java is hard. It's hard to break into.

Haha no Java is easy to learn compared to many programming languages. Of course Java makes it difficult to actually write good code especially in a large project, but who really cares about that when messing with MS private servers?

[CodySP]

but who really cares about that when messing with MS private servers?

That was the point I was getting to :P