MapleStory Client/Localhost Archive

[Dravis]

Hello I know this is a long shot, but does anybody have the v0.62 client/files/anything? That's the version I played with as a kid and I would like to emulate it locally with a server.

Riremito built a wonderful list of available clients with links to archive.org

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[ALIUSNAKE]

May I ask if anyone has a kms379 client？

 

[a2824256]

Does anyone have GMS versions around 240-244? The wz files from before Jett was removed.

 

[hiyaaaa]

Is it still possible to get a version of GMS beta up and running locally for fun? Learning game dev and would love to use it for learning! Thank you!

 

[faceplanter]

Is it still possible to get a version of GMS beta up and running locally for fun? Learning game dev and would love to use it for learning! Thank you!

Yes that is possible

 

[koosuny]

Excuse me, does anyone have the KMS Testpia v1.2.54–v1.2.55 client available for download? I really need it. I would really appreciate it if someone could share it.

大家好。请问有人有第四职业KMS测试版的文件吗？
我真的很想亲眼看看这座巨大的火山和棕色巨龙的吐息。
请

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我一直在找这个文件！
你帮我找到了！
太感谢了！
你太棒了！

Excuse me, do you have the client with the Volcano skill now? I also need it because I’d like to study it.

 

[staghr]

Hello I know this is a long shot, but does anybody have the v0.62 client/files/anything? That's the version I played with as a kid and I would like to emulate it locally with a server.

there's a few server emulators floating around for that version that you could build on

 

[papakoi]

Hello. I'm new to the forums. I came across this thread in the middle of a web search. I found these two files and was wondering if they'd be useful. I'm not sure how to verify them. I did check and MSSetup.exe does install but it fails to launch because of GameGuard.

SHA-1:

efe875a94e38beb72c854c62c45b6f36312fe9ff  GMS v15/Data.wz
67fffd82537168bd4f6db765ec78fdf413b17425  GMS v16/MSSetup.exe

GMS v15 Data.wz:

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GMS v16 MSSetup.exe:

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EDIT:
I'd like to add some additional info. I found these two files on two separate CD-Rs.

The Data.wz file was on a CD marked "MapleStory 0.15". There were no other files on the CD. The file has a timestamp of January 4 2006.

The MSSetup.exe file was on a CD marked "MapleStory 0.16". Included with the file were additional files, but I believe they were just the extracted files from the installer. All of those files have a timestamp of February 1 2006. The MSSetup.exe installer has a timestamp one day later of February 2 2006.

I hope that helps.

 

[Dravis]

This is massive, kudos mate. Can confirm this was indeed lost media until now.

v15 is a bug fix(?) after the release of 3rd job on v14.
v16 is a major update with some UI changes, Guild were added, Cursor Changed, Quest system QOL and more.

Luckly, there's a clean exe for v15 somewhere. If other dlls didn't change between v15 and v16, we'd also have "full" v15.
Screenshot of the v16 login page lol

 

[Kimberly]

Hello. I'm new to the forums. I came across this thread in the middle of a web search. I found these two files and was wondering if they'd be useful. I'm not sure how to verify them. I did check and MSSetup.exe does install but it fails to launch because of GameGuard.

SHA-1:

efe875a94e38beb72c854c62c45b6f36312fe9ff  GMS v15/Data.wz
67fffd82537168bd4f6db765ec78fdf413b17425  GMS v16/MSSetup.exe

GMS v15 Data.wz:

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GMS v16 MSSetup.exe:

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EDIT:
I'd like to add some additional info. I found these two files on two separate CD-Rs.

The Data.wiz file was on a CD marked "MapleStory 0.15". There were no other files on the CD. The file has a timestamp of January 4 2006.

The MSSetup.exe file was on a CD marked "MapleStory 0.16". Included with the file were additional files, but I believe they were just the extracted files from the installer. All of those files have a timestamp of February 1 2006. The MSSetup.exe installer has a timestamp one day later of February 2 2006.

I hope that helps.

Dravis already posted most meat of this foundings, but yeah. This is huge, and extremely appreciated you took the time to find if the files are useful, instead of tossing out the CDR's.

I saw the post yesterday evening, but was busy with life, and then of course forgot about it. Thanks to Dravis replying to it I remembered it sooner than later.

From first look v16 seems to be very similar as KMS v1.2.3, which was KMS' patch that introduced the very things Dravis mentioned, but a bit busy to pinpoint deeper.

EDIT: It's not 1.2.3; Papulatus and mobgage are present, which aren't in 1.2.3.

Thanks so much papakoi having the first version of a "major patch" (basically, sometimes a specific maplestory patch introduced a lot of things, and also threw a lot of unreleased content in the .exe/.wz files) is huge from a preservation perspective. Example v56 is a major patch as well, and so is v67.

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Dravis I am curious on your assuming that using older dll's with the clean .exe and new found .wz would work.

Do you mind downloading this and try see if it boots with your setup?

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This contains

- v12 dll's (some still matched with v16 byte by byte)
- v15 .exe
- The new v15 data.wz

If it boots and works perfectly, than v15 is properly preserved as well. If it doesn't boot up, than some internal changes may have been made already and it may work on v16 dll's instead. I don't think this will be the case, though, since it was very uncommon for Nexon to be making internal changes like these without major patches.

 

[papakoi]

This is massive, kudos mate. Can confirm this was indeed lost media until now.

v15 is a bug fix(?) after the release of 3rd job on v14.
v16 is a major update with some UI changes, Guild were added, Cursor Changed, Quest system QOL and more.

Luckly, there's a clean exe for v15 somewhere. If other dlls didn't change between v15 and v16, we'd also have "full" v15.
Screenshot of the v16 login page lol
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Thank you for verifying.

I'm not sure how most of the files are compiled between versions, but I would almost wonder if the existing v12 has more in common with v15 than v16. I did some brief checks, and I see that these five files are identical from v12 to v16:

GameGuard.des
ijl15.dll
l3codeca.acm
MapleStoryUS.ini
Setup.exe

Most of the files in a fresh v16 install have a modification date of 23 January 2006. This includes the DLLs.

MapleExplorer.exe is new in v16 and has a modification date of 17 January 2006. I believe this is merely a program that opens a web page. An identical file exists in v22.

Patcher.exe in v16 is newer than the one in v12 with a modification date of 17 January 2006. This file is unchanged in v22.

ZLZ.dll is interesting in that its modification date is 6 December 2005. I would guess that this was part of v15.

 

[Dravis]

Thanks Kimberly and papakoi, I'll for sure get v15 tested when I'll get home tonight. It's looking promising right now with the dlls looking pretty much the same. I'll edit the response once tested.

EDIT:
It worked! Just for the sake of it I tested the v15 MapleStory.exe+Data.wz on a fresh install of v16 and it worked as well. And by working I mean it launches and it gets to login screen. I don't have any server ready to test it further for now.

Screenshot of v15 login (with old cursor)

 

[Kimberly]

Thanks Kimberly and papakoi, I'll for sure get v15 tested when I'll get home tonight. It's looking promising right now with the dlls looking pretty much the same. I'll edit the response once tested.

EDIT:
It worked! Just for the sake of it I tested the v15 MapleStory.exe+Data.wz on a fresh install of v16 and it worked as well. And by working I mean it launches and it gets to login screen. I don't have any server ready to test it further for now.

Screenshot of v15 login (with old cursor)
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Great to see! That means v15 is preserved too, which should be the very last version before the first major UI/UX overhaul of GMS. This definitely is one of the more interesting cases of preservation, because the .exe was given standalone by someone long ago, now the data.wz standalone, and the dll's are picked from other versions. Technically not full, but it should really work completely just fine.

 

[wnsgh3015]

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[shrinktofit]

hi where can i download your collection

 

[Kimberly]

hi where can i download your collection

Most of it is on archive.org. If you need something else specific let me know

 

[LastBattle]

https://forum.ragezone.com/threads/custom-v95-post-bb-maplestory-client.1263270/
shout-out to the people archiving the old maplestory clients Kimberly

 

[Kimberly]

Note for MapleStory Classic

The first invites for people that participated the event IRL to download the client were given out, and client downloads have been made available since I have seen some people doing .wz rips supposedly.

If you are reading this and already got access to the client, please make a full copy of it and preserve it. Since the download goes through the launcher, any patch that may come already makes the previous version lost FOREVER.

Constantly closed beta tests end up lost forever. Don't let it happen for this one too.

Each time there's an update the wz file (I think named data.wz) and the .exe may change. Preserve patches as much as possible, please!

 

[johannesliu]

Hi, recently, I want to doing a study about AI-driven bot in Maplestory. I noticed there is some repos in github providing the server however there is no client. I wonder where I can find the client? Thanks!

 

[Kimberly]

Regular MapleStory GMS will now have "public" test servers

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As always with special clients, if someone ever have access to that, it would be appreciated if you preserve the clients! Honestly, this even goes for private test builds, but I doubt anyone want to risk preserving those