Request of Private Servers informations

[nomnomnomnom]

Hey, guys! ^^

Today a good friend of mine talked me about this forum where there are many ppl talking about creating Private Servers, and i must say it's really awesome!
He talked to me about this forum cuz i had many questions to ask to someone who knows many things about Private Servers.

So here's the question:

Is it possible to create a Private Server of a game which was closed, there are not any other copies around, and you own only a few clients of it?


If possible could someone write step by step what is needed to create a Private Server of a random mmorpg?

Thank you very much in advance! ^^

P.S. I've read in the forum ppl talking about reverse engineering. What is it about and could it help me somehow?

[MentaL]

[Detox]

That is very much possible, you'd have to emulate or program the server side stuff though, as you currently only have the client.

[nomnomnomnom]

Thank you for the fast reply!

Umm by the way, do i need to know a specific programming/scripting language or can i use just the one i feel more confident with?
And can i do it just by taking the cue from another emulator or will i have to make a "custom-made" one? (Of course all the names of the files "called/linked" would be different)

For example from this Ragnarok one: http://eathena-project.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

I'm sorry for all these questions, but if it's possible i'd like to do everything by myself, that's why i need many informations ^^;


Thank you again for your answers!
Every suggestion and advice will be welcome ^^
Keep it up!

[Detox]

Thank you for the fast reply!

Umm by the way, do i need to know a specific programming/scripting language or can i use just the one i feel more confident with?
And can i do it just by taking the cue from another emulator or will i have to make a "custom-made" one? (Of course all the names of the files "called/linked" would be different)

For example from this Ragnarok one: http://eathena-project.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

I'm sorry for all these questions, but if it's possible i'd like to do everything by myself, that's why i need many informations ^^;


Thank you again for your answers!
Every suggestion and advice will be welcome ^^
Keep it up!

It'll have to be a object-oriented programming language though, common languages such as c# and java are often used to make emulators of games. You can't however make a game emulator out of html and css for instance. You can probably use parts of other emulators, but you still have make a lot of modifications in order to make it the game you want.

[nomnomnomnom]

So basically:

- I'd have to make the game emulator in html
- As programming language i should use an object-oriented one, probably i'll use c#.. (since i studied C..)
- And i should program it from the beginning only remembering how the whole game was ^^;;;;

To be honest it sounds, very complicated..
The first thing which came up in my head when i thought about this, was the System which calculates the damages... Because since i don't know the parameters which were used in the old game algorithm, and i couldn't even guess it in all this time, it would mean that i should make a brand new one...

I think this "project" under an optimistic point of view will take me at least a few months ^^;

Thank you very much for all the informations you gave me, Detox, they were really helpful!
If you or someone else have any other suggestion or advice to give me, just leave here a relpy with your opinion and i'll read it for sure!

[nomnomnomnom]

Hey, it's me again ^^;

I am having some problems opening some files in the client-side because i don't really know which kind of programs are needed to open them.
I already did some researches on the net but without any good result...

I decided to upload some files of the client so you can see the "weird" extensions this client has ^^

Thank you in advance for all the help you are giving to me!


P.S. I also left some screenies, so maybe by seeing them you can understand what kind of files/programs were used in that game, the link is the following one:

https://mega.co.nz/#F!sA50SToB!0i1mkXsJOieKPBW3kbVPvw

P.P.S. To see the screenies you have to download them, btw. ^^;;;

[nomnomnomnom]

Hi guys again!

I think the company who developed the game used a home-made engine to develop this game because i am not finding anything online about the extensions of the files contained in the clients i have...

I tried to open the files with the following programs so far:

-Notepad (to understand which kind of file we were talking about, i know it could be understood by its dimension but i had to be sure)

-Notepad++ (suggested by a friend of mine z.z)

-Microsoft Visual C++ 2010

-Qt creator (i could see some table with hexadecimal numbers in it and next to it there was a column with some scattered characters where among them could be understood there were a few string of a program written)

-Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

I really don't know what program i could try to open this files with, any suggestions?

At the momente i started to watch at all my old Screenshots, about 1,6 GB of stuff, just to help me to remember the names of the monsters, names of the skills, names of the items and so on, let's say just not to waste time...

If you would like to see the extensions i am talking about, you can see them by clicking on the link in the previous post.

I'd really appreciate to know your opinion about this ^^

Thank you for the attention and for your help!

[zergonax]

Well I own an MMORPG server i might hire the two of you :D just pm me heres the facebook page http://facebook.com/FQWpage/