Inspired by this video, I'm spending the second day building a private Ragnarok Online server. @__@
I've always wanted to do this, but never would have imagined that I would actually be able to run an ancient 2007 eAthena server and find a compatible kRO client from 2006 with a compatible hexed exe file. EPISODE 10 LETSGOOO
This has become a real web archaeology project, and it wouldn't be possible without the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine, because eAthena is long dead and everybody has moved on to Renewal servers... T^T
Something really changes inside of you when you open a ratemyserver page from 2006 with waybackmachine and download a cached torrent file with the slightest hope that someone may still seed it...
So, where am I at right now with this? Installing Visual Studio 2005 to rebuild the eAthena source code that I've tweaked for some fun stuff (: And also setting up a registration page, lol.
Stay tuned for some announcements if you're interested! ^o^
P.S. Just to be clear, I'm being so stubborn about running an old RO server and not later ones that are actually being supported right now, like rAthena, mostly because I don't want to play anything more recent after they've trashed Morroc in Episode 12 :\
