A aetrnative login server
 

Long time reader first time poster.

I noticed some locked threads about a login server and various arguments around it. As it seems to be a heated topic ill keep it quick.
www.hackersquest.org has an open source emu, whilst no where near as complete as this, its login server IS open sourced GPL. Any algos or whatever you need is freely avalible in that source.

It wouldnt be to hard to see whats exported to the EQEMU Engine and well port it. The login server is hardly complex beyond reversing the crypto (which will be rc4 or something) even then it should be pre broken for you in the other emulators source.

You could even implement it as a part of EQEMUS socket layer.
Whilst the main brass of eqemu may not like that, there is nothing stopping you makign a branch with an embedded login server.

This post may bring up some hostilitys but its a simple fact, you want a open login server so bad you practically have one made for you.

You could also just reverse the currrent minilogin server.. Developers cant really get angry with you there as they implement hooks and whatever to get data they need to make the emulator. Reversing Live EQ puts nobody on any higher ground than some one who reverses a simple homebrew login server.
PE Explorer & Autodebug are your friends.

I myself have worked on 6800 emulation and I understand that I am working with a well documented well known and static system. The EQEMU devs face an ever changing challenge to keep you up to date with the live game. So instead of going give us an open log server why not just implement one. In the scheme of the whole emulator its really nothing.

-Boo

The problem is that hackers quest and minilogin both are incompatible with the current live patch and the current server code, so putting them in wouldn't work.

True...

You sure? Zordon updates his EMU ... AND eqcollector every live patch

is there any version of eqemu or hackersquest emu that uses the old eq client? (velious engine/ui)

No.

There is no "old version"

There prolly about 200+ different velious engine patches.

and theres never been an emu for any of them?

There has.... but most of them are gone forever now unless some person has a personal collection somewhere. But my point was. odds of you finding one that old AND finding one to match your exact patch are pretty slim to none

Old Versions of EQEmu Source:


http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=88515

Just find the one that is closest to the client's date without going over :P

uhh woot? are any of these old enuf to work with the old eq engine?

i swear to god that would be so leet.

that's up to you to figure out. none of those are supported anymore.

I see no reason why people couldn't modify the EQEmu source to work with the HQ LS, or the other way 'round. I attempted to a while back, but my very limited knowledge of Ruby prevented me from doing so. More power to anyone who wants to try.