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Hi guys. As some of you may or may not know, I have been without internet for about a month, but those who saw me on MSN/Yahoo have seen me waste minutes using my TracFone to sign in. Well, in this time I have been working on my own server emulator called EOEmu, and I'm wondering who would even support THIS project. I do hope to get it a little further than the other servers, but I might lack time if I get a job, or my mood about it changes or something. Which is why I'm looking for a little inspiration.

I've gotten a bit done, that of which includes account/character creation/deletion, password changing, logging in, seeing yourself and other players, most of the chat channels, a permissions system (admin stuff), a crap load of (mostly debug) commands, partial map/pub file reading (yeah...time stamps, keeps that "Updating files" crap from showing up each login). I've also had time to fill in some missing pieces of EOSERV/Seose like packet IDs (though they're not actually written down for use, just in my head) and got in a few proper looking messages (I.E. Bans in certain places and busy messages).

I will need some more time with this project, but I hope it keeps going. I currently have no idea how to completely read the map/pub files, but I'll get to that when I absolutely need them, or until some kind soul (maybe Rena) gives me some code I understand, or until I get my lazy ass to reading Sausage's C++ code. XD Unfortunately, I'll probably need more time before I get some internet of my own before I can answer any big questions, but yeah, hopefully soon.

Let me know your thoughts/suggestions/comments about this project. ~Thanks~

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I like the sound of it, and I might be interested in helping, if I am able to. Out of curiosity, which language would it be written in?

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Syran posted: (30th Aug 2010 10:46 pm)

I like the sound of it, and I might be interested in helping, if I am able to. Out of curiosity, which language would it be written in?

Rapid-Q Basic. If I ever get around to it, I could upload the entire dev package, since it's kind of hard to round up all the files I use.

Also, if you or any other server dev could help me with this problem, it'd be cool. Apparently the client keeps sending my server an extra (unknown) byte (a 9 in this case) to my server, but lacks to send this crappy byte when an account is (successfully, if I remember) created. It's a bit of a pain to rid myself of this extra byte, because at some point the code getting rid of it might fail, so I'm really hoping somebody knows the cause of it.

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I might be interested in contributing if I can learn the language. I have pub file readers that I ported to C#, they are mostly complete (except for classes I think). I could probably do it again, BASIC doesn't look too difficult to pick up. As long as it's similar enough to the TI graphing calculator language, I'm set.

I also made a map reader, but haven't been able to test it :-\ So not sure if it works, but all the framework is there for it.

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class EOSERV {
Programmer | Oldbie
Open source EO Client: https://github.com/ethanmoffat/EndlessClient
};

Well Atm, I'm working on a client. Id be happy to cooperate any way I can with it. Right now You can login, view your character(And other characters), walk around, talk(although chat boxes don't appear, it appears in the message box), Change maps and a few other minor things...

Regarding Logins, Does the byte change at all? It could be the counter byte, although I'm sure you would have noticed it incrementing... Hm, Is your packet decoder working correctly? Where abouts is the byte in the packet? I haven't experienced this problem yet, as my client does not contain account creations yet.

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Hey! Nice to see you back! I hope EOEmu will work out for you, and this community.

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ethanmoffat posted: (30th Aug 2010 11:41 pm)

I might be interested in contributing if I can learn the language. I have pub file readers that I ported to C#, they are mostly complete (except for classes I think). I could probably do it again, BASIC doesn't look too difficult to pick up. As long as it's similar enough to the TI graphingcalculator language, I'm set.

I also made a map reader, but haven't been able to test it :-\ So not sure if it works, but all the framework is there for it.

I started off programming with a TI-83. ;) Think I moved to QBasic on the PC and thought "Hey, this is easy." Rapid-Q Basic is pretty much like QBasic, just a bit more GUI driven. Might like to take a look at that code. Hopefully I can grab it before I get back to my new home.

hotdog posted: (31st Aug 2010 03:21 am)

Well Atm, I'm working on a client. Id be happy to cooperate any way I can with it. Right now You can login, view your character(And other characters), walk around, talk(although chat boxes don't appear, it appears in the message box), Change maps and a few other minor things...

Regarding Logins, Does the byte change at all? It could be the counter byte, although I'm sure you would have noticed it incrementing... Hm, Is your packet decoder working correctly? Where abouts is the byte in the packet? I haven't experienced this problem yet, asmy client does not contain account creations yet.

The packet would be in the form Length(2 bytes)_PacketID(2 bytes)_Counter(1 byte)_(Unknown byte)_RestOfPacket

[12:22:19] [RECV] Index:[1] ID:[144] IP:[127.0.0.1]
[12:22:19] [26] [21_18] 10_9_84_101_115_116_105_110_103_32_116_104_105_115_32_99_114_117_100_32_111_117_116_46
[12:22:19] [DEC] §↕ Testing this crud out.

Observe the [Length] [ID_ID] Counter_9 there. And no, the byter never changes, but it doesn't show up after (I think successfully) creating an account. It's there before actually creating the account though.

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I like the sound of it :P

But once/if it's done. you should add things the other emulators dont have. Also whhat would be cool is if it was very simple and easy to use like Seose but open source like EOServ. Then the noobs could use it and the programmers could use it as they do with EOServ.

danjakeneal posted: (1st Sep 2010 11:57 am)

I like the sound of it :P

But once/if it's done. you should add things the other emulators dont have. Also whhat would be cool is if it was very simple and easy to use like Seose but open source like EOServ. Then the noobs could use it and the programmers could use it as they do with EOServ.

Well it is easy. It's got a file system like Seose (which is half of what's "hard" about EOSERV), but may eventually be able to use a SQL database as suggested by Scott.

And sure, don't see why it can't be open source. :P

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Plasmastar posted: (1st Sep 2010 04:43 pm)

danjakeneal posted: (1st Sep 2010 11:57 am)

I like the sound of it :P

But once/if it's done. you should add things the other emulators dont have. Also whhat would be cool is if it was very simple and easy to use like Seose but open source like EOServ. Then the noobs could use it and the programmers could use it as they do with EOServ.

Well it is easy. It's got a file system like Seose (which is half of what's "hard" about EOSERV), but may eventually be able to use a SQL database as suggested by Scott.

And sure, don't see why it can't be open source. :P

I'm opposed to it being open-source. People add crap code and make servers unstable...

Scott posted: (1st Sep 2010 04:47 pm)

Plasmastar posted: (1st Sep 2010 04:43 pm)

danjakeneal posted: (1st Sep 2010 11:57 am)

I like the sound of it :P

But once/if it's done. you should add things the other emulators dont have. Also whhat would be cool is if it was very simple and easy to use like Seose but open source like EOServ. Then the noobs could use it and the programmers could use it as they do with EOServ.

Well it is easy. It's got a file system like Seose (which is half of what's "hard" about EOSERV), but may eventually be able to use a SQL database as suggested by Scott.

And sure, don't see why it can't be open source. :P

I'm opposed to it being open-source. People add crap code and make servers unstable...

There would always be the stable release. And if somebody really wants to get some code in, they can hand it over for review/modification before it gets into such a release. (They'd get some credit of course)

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Btw, if you'd like to get a preview of what's done so far, hook em up to st0rage.org:8078 where I have it temporarily hosted. P.S. Sorry I don't have account defaults programmed in yet, or I'd give you some admin flags or something.

Edit: Screenshots

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Looks great :P What does $jukebox do lol

Plays music? Its pretty self explanatory...

@scott aww, Scott... My only +1 rate :( Anyways..

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Jamie, am I correct in assuming that this $raw you have is for creating custom packets, similar to your function in PlasmaEOProxy? Also, I like the look of it so far, and if I can find the time I would be happy to help!

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May he now rest under aegis of mirage -
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