Episode 1 Emulator Project

[PizzaGuy]

As some may know, I've been chipping away at rewriting EP1 server files from scratch. I don't believe in reusing the old official binary's that was released as they are feature lacking and full of exploits. So, I have been working on this project for probably a week now with solid progress (for as seldom as I work on it).



Before you glance and go "well Warmonger that's just a login server, it's easy to make one of those" my initial response would be, no, it's not. The login server is written to be extremely powerful (ringbuffer, hashtables, inline asm, etc) so that I can just copy and paste it for use as the game server (they both share the same initial login packet 0x03 handling) and have everything all ready for me to further protocol support. While writing this I've been trying to do so at the best of my ability to ensure the server is powerful enough to handle hundreds (maybe thousands?) of online players at one time (something the EP2 emulator project couldn't do). It has a long ways to go (nearly done with the login server) but will pick up steam after the holiday season. I would expect to be in-game a few days after finishing the login server (remember I seldomly work on this, it's a side project). The plan is to publish both Windows and Linux server files as I develop this once I reach a certain point. Although I will cut off public releases as I near the final builds of the project. This way I can run a truly unique server of my own based entirely on my own code if I wish. I plan on going older (2007-2008) with the client as well than what's pictured in the screenshot (2009).

Any feedback or questions are welcomed.

[Frezona.♥!]

Sorry warmomger
Ep1 is Dead.

[KarmelX]

Y, anyway if it could be ep1 without bugs, only custom content are able to live.

[PizzaGuy]

Originally Posted by Frezona.♥!

Sorry warmomger
Ep1 is Dead.

I disagree. The reason EP1 is dead is because no one has solid files to run a proper EP1 server. The goal of this project is to relaunch a server much like Aeria's back during the EP1 period. There's a lot of people I know of that prefer EP1 over the garbage that LC has turned into today. What's missing is a server running solid EP1 files where everything works 100% as it should and is hack and exploit free.

[zekiller84]

good luck man

[Lee Ki-Hwan]

Dumb idea to emulate something where already source are avaivable.
It is not really hard to write an EP1 Emulator, but i dont see the point doing something again what already has been done.
Just use the 2009 Beta Source and "downgrade" it to the version you want and rewrite some code, its way better than coding everything again.

At least in my opinion..

[Tarissuis]

I don't see the point of going back to the end of 2007 or older. That's before they even introduced rare options, the game was pretty one sided and "lame" back then.

[damona]

It's funny to do this but ep1 is out of date, i think episode 2.0 (2009/10) is the best.
And for that we can use the official source of 2009.

You think about open source or only for you & a server?

[Andi]

Originally Posted by »Joker?«

Sieht nicht so aus, als wenn der Thread noch nötig wäre ^^

Sieht nicht so aus, als ob dein Post nötig wäre.

I find it even sounds quite interesting.
I was and still am a big EP1 Fan.

I'd love to see more.

[Tarissuis]

So, I did some thinking on that matter and figured that I'd love to see a Server that caps around Level 100 and includes everything up to Theo's Tomb. As far as rare option equipment goes I'd put the 75-77 set back into Lust Trum and the 85-87 set into the Tomb instead of Streiana. I loved the whole concept of going into one area and farm your stuff there, the further you got into it, the better the rare options where. I'd like to see that again.

Besides that i'd modify the personal dungeons and make them accessible to groups. This way you could implement rare option equipment below lvl 73 and have a special place for them to aquire as well.

If you're going backt to a pre Egeha time I hardly think anyone would play as you'd probably have to remove Sorc and Rogue (with 40% of all players playing rogue that's quite an issue) and you're missing out on everything that made players invest hours and hours into the game (also referring to monster combo here).

[Tunechi]

Originally Posted by Tarissuis

So, I did some thinking on that matter and figured that I'd love to see a Server that caps around Level 100 and includes everything up to Theo's Tomb. As far as rare option equipment goes I'd put the 75-77 set back into Lust Trum and the 85-87 set into the Tomb instead of Streiana. I loved the whole concept of going into one area and farm your stuff there, the further you got into it, the better the rare options where. I'd like to see that again.

Besides that i'd modify the personal dungeons and make them accessible to groups. This way you could implement rare option equipment below lvl 73 and have a special place for them to aquire as well.

If you're going backt to a pre Egeha time I hardly think anyone would play as you'd probably have to remove Sorc and Rogue (with 40% of all players playing rogue that's quite an issue) and you're missing out on everything that made players invest hours and hours into the game (also referring to monster combo here).

But without PBI, XPB, stealers and all this stuff. No way to push your MaxHP to 10k+ so that killing mobs is quite a challenge.
I think it's the most boring part about LC (atm) that you just can push your HP to 40+k (even in the very low levels) and kill mobs, that would normally kill you in 2 or 3 hits, without any problem (especially with stealers).

[Kim]

Originally Posted by Tunechi

But without PBI, XPB, stealers and all this stuff. No way to push your MaxHP to 10k+ so that killing mobs is quite a challenge.
I think it's the most boring part about LC (atm) that you just can push your HP to 40+k (even in the very low levels) and kill mobs, that would normally kill you in 2 or 3 hits, without any problem (especially with stealers).

Thats it.

Just want back the old feeling...

i dont care if the kids are crying because they cant play without stealers or something... EP1 was the best LastChaos.. especially Eternia EP1 with Reborn..

[Pfandflaschenhustler]

Ist lustig wie ihr alle nein sagt, hätte irgendein bekannterer Last Chaos Elitepvpers User diesen Vorschlag gemacht wären alle ausgerastet wie gut diese Idee doch wäre...

[Lee Ki-Hwan]

Originally Posted by Pfandflaschenhustler

Ist lustig wie ihr alle nein sagt, hätte irgendein bekannterer Last Chaos Elitepvpers User diesen Vorschlag gemacht wären alle ausgerastet wie gut diese Idee doch wäre...

Wie man an der Umfrage erkennen kann, findet die Mehrheit diese Idee gut..^^

[Kim]

Any Progress on it?