EQOA emulator

[The_Doodmar]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone is working on a emulator/private server for EQOA for PS2. I'm pretty sure it is possible. I think we could just make some kind of codebreaker code to redirect the game to a new server. I've seen this done with PSO for the PC and DC, so I think it might be possible.

Let me know what you guys think... :)

[Cisyouc]

How would you packetcollect that? 0.o

[The_Doodmar]

I'm really not sure, but I THINK it might be similar to the way this guy made a PSO server. I'm not experienced with packets and stuff, I'm just guessing :) :?

[Nuker1490]

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These are 5 packets from when i was in FP

[The_Doodmar]

Nuker, how were you able to do that? Do packets usually look like that?

Good job (I think) :D

[Stealth_raptor]

I thought packets were usually in hex....lol

[Tree]

could it packet collect properly if you used your ps2 to boot an OS? with a usb external hardrive and a few bits of modding a ps2 can properly boot a windows OS (also xbox can boot mac os as well, its alot eaier than doing the ps2 one) However, how would u emulate it? Plus who would play EQOA emu when no one plays EQOA...??






PS: this is what the alphabet would look like if Q and R never existed

[The_Doodmar]

Hmm... I was not aware xbox could boot mac. I run linux on my xbox and I have heard people running windows on xbox, but never mac.

I was also not aware that the PS2 could boot windows. Are you sure about this? When xbox runs windows it is extrememly slow and laggy, how could a PS2 do this better?

[jammey97]

XBox does NOT boot mac, it runs an emulator (pearpc) from within linux that runs the mac os

the PS2 also runs linux which runs emulators and such.. first i've heard of it running windows.

[daeken_bb]

Accomplishing this would be quite simple really.

Have a computer sitting between the PS2 and the internet connection (or have the ps2 and a computer on the same hub (not switch!)) and then sniff the packets coming from the PS2.

The actual connection interception is a bit more difficult...
If it resolves the servers by DNS then it's simple, make your router (whether that's a pc or a hardware router) resolve the server's DNS to the box you're running the emulator on.

Aside from that, development would be just like any other server emulator... probably a degree easier since Sony can't change the protocol on you.

[Cisyouc]

My question is
how would you change the loginserver?

[Tree]

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~ranma1/mac_install.html

yeah its just an emulated version running on linux, but also with ps2 you can make it just boot a real OS (or so i have seen, never don it personally) but you have to actually alter the hardware of the ps2 a tad, its hard but possible.

[daeken_bb]

My question is
how would you change the loginserver?

You'd have your computer intercept the connection to the official server and reroute it to your server.

[Nuker1490]

Well it's simple how i did see My computer has 2 Nic cards in it. 1 is plugged directly into my cable modem and the other into my PS2..Run a Packet Sniffer on the Computer load up EQOA and you see everything

Next i'll show you some things i found in the EQOA disk.....Like the GM toolbar. And the EQhost.txt

[Nuker1490]

I thought packets were usually in hex....lol

Not if You convert them to Ascii

[Nuker1490]

Pulled from Game


</PS2GUIPage>
(stationdata/servers/stationLiveHosts.txt 64.37.156.200:9735
stationdata/config/options.cfg WNewsURL:http://patch.everquestonlineadventures.com:7000/patch/web/eqoa/motd/news.html
Pulled from station.PAK


Dev toolbar
Toggle Invis
Buff PC
Enter Level
Summon Item
Enter Item Id
Enter Sprite And Scale
Change Sprite
Revert Sprite
Enter Location (Zone X Y Z)
Enter Spawner ID
Goto Location
Goto Spawner
Force Spawn

The Word Server, when used find in notepad
Server
SERVER LOAD
SERVER INFO
Please enter server address.
Server not found. (DNS error)

Weather
DAY-NIGHT
WEATHER
CLEAR
RAIN
SNOW
Pulled from Words.txt

Note: There is A LOT more

[Draugr]

This is very interesting. I hope a EQOA emulator sees the light of day. I played EQOA for a few months and it was pretty good. I liked the feel of it. It captured the MMORPG feel and had a slight console feel to it. While I'll always prefer EQ, or UO type RPGs over a console system, EQOA was a lot of fun while I played it. The only reasdon I stopped is because I don't see the necessity to pay a monthly fee for a game. From now on I just pass on any monthly fee based games. There are many that are free like EQ emulator, RunUO, NWN, and soon Guild Wars will also be free.

[Nuker490]

If someone they know something about programming and wants to start an EQOA Emulator. I'll send you everything about the packets i've found

[vice9797]

oooh and I'll help in any way possible. just I have a few small problems. I'm pretty new to emulators...

[Nuker1490]

I hope someone that knows anything about coding will help make this.

[lear]

Hi, I hate to bump a thread from way back, but I'm just wondering if anyone could tell me how I could packet collect or sniff this off my PS2.

I'm new to most of this, but am willing to work hard to learn. =/ I want to emulate EQOA sooo bad, mainly due to that I know a lot of old players would come back if there was a free server. But I'd be happy with just running around by myself even lol.

Can anyone aid a newbie to emus :s pretty please with tunar on top?

Also, if anyone was interested on working on this, please send me a PM, I'm sure I could give you benefits one way or another.

Thanks! And sorry again for the bump. Just very anxious to get an EQOA emu up. I've googled my heart out trying to find anything on it, and this is all I can find =( my last hope.

[Slaya21]

this would be hot .

[ChaosSlayer]

yay to the necros!
04, 05, 07, 08 - all on one page =)

[LordRathgil]

ummmm let me get this straight you are wanting to make a pc emulator for a console game?

[Slaya21]

Hey EQOA was a great game, I had a 60 magician on there before I quit.

[image]

A big problem with this is the servers are either data on the CD or on the memory card it creates. Chances are a emulator thats compatible with the PS2 is unlikely. Unless you had a nice router that allowed you to forward traffic, but every person who wanted to use the emulator would have to do this..

[alutra]

Super Necro Post Here, But EQOA Revival 2014 needs your help! Nuker 1490, or anyone else who is able to help with our progress, please send a PM!

[Mesenkomaha]

Here is some secret information from the EQOA Revival Project. I want to share our progress with you folks and hope to attract some attention from talented devs that would be able to help us revive this beautiful, classic Everquest experience.

So far we've been able to: set up a patching server, bypass log in by sending an auth key to the client during login (we are in the midst of creating a real login server), and get to the server selection screen. At this point we're working on getting into the game world itself.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b118/Vaspasian/8e819771-6130-4d30-b6de-683b35c63ace.jpg (http://s18.photobucket.com/user/Vaspasian/media/8e819771-6130-4d30-b6de-683b35c63ace.jpg.html)

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b118/Vaspasian/eqoa2014.jpg (http://s18.photobucket.com/user/Vaspasian/media/eqoa2014.jpg.html)

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b118/Vaspasian/loginsucceed.jpg (http://s18.photobucket.com/user/Vaspasian/media/loginsucceed.jpg.html)

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b118/Vaspasian/eqoanews.jpg (http://s18.photobucket.com/user/Vaspasian/media/eqoanews.jpg.html)

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b118/Vaspasian/server.png (http://s18.photobucket.com/user/Vaspasian/media/server.png.html)

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b118/Vaspasian/server2.jpg (http://s18.photobucket.com/user/Vaspasian/media/server2.jpg.html)

Thank you for taking the time to read this and hopefully help us out.