FFXi Server Emulator ReleaseFollow

I am guessing lock and deletion of this thread. I am sure SE does not approve of server emulation just like most every other MMO company.

Prediction:

Day 1) Release
"Ips for ffxi servers are hard coded in the client.. download this tool to update them and have fun on our new RMT free servers!"

Day 2) Adoption
"I can't get this to work..."

Day 3) Panic
"I logged on my main ffxi character today, and all of my gil and items were gone."

Day 4) Joy
"LOL, I made $100,000 robbing hundred of characters across every server and RMT'n the gil"

That's one hell of a sock.

The status of FFXI emulation is still somewhat ambiguous, as the only one that I've seen with any possible promise has devs that don't like to tell anyone what's going on unless they're absolutely sure something's working.

And when they do announce it, they sure as hell wouldn't do it here.

Server emulation if anyone ever got round to really doing it would be very poor at best. Tons of stuff in ffxi is unknown, like drop rate modifiers, some mobs' exact spawn conditions, exact formulae for combat etc. Since this stuff is done by the server, the people developing it would have to guess, and I'm betting the world would end up very different.

While I'm pessimistic the OP has any real server or any real code, I can't help but wonder what a private server would be like. It would be pretty much paradise. The GM's could pretty much do anything they wanted; You could spawn a bunch of Kirins in Rolanberry, or have an NPC selling Kirin Osodes for 100g. Every mission and quest could be soloable. Fellow NPC's could be uncapped, called anywhere, and be beefed up to be far overpowered. Warps straight to Sky and Sea. Mobs could give huge amounts of EXP. Ullikummi could be put on a 20-minute respawn timer, or hell, EVERY statue in the Shrine could be an Ullikummi. Crafting? Please.. either make crafting stupidly easy (level 1-50 in an hour on ingredients all at ONE NPC) or just make all the end results of crafting buyable at NPC's so there's no point in crafting at all.

I ran a Ragnarok Online private server for a while and it was a blast. The users were genuinely HAPPY and had alot of fun. My fellow GM's and I enjoyed creating quests, stories, having events, and all that stuff. The power was addictive. Best of all, we hand-picked all of our users, so it really was a server of nice people and people we trusted. In fact, last I heard that server was still running in some way, even though I haven't been involved with it for well over a year.

I just want to know who in their right mind can afford a OC192 pipe without making some type of revenue. Unless of course you're running the servers from your dorm room, which means you just have access to an OC192 line but doesn't mean you have anywhere close to the bandwidth available because everyone else on campus is using it. Not to mention the fact that the admins will notice the spike in their network traffic.

The poster is a sock. Past posts like this came up and it's still the most naive view I've seen on how this game operates.

That's easy; they don't have the pipe all to themselves. You and I could say "lol we have OC192" because at SOME point in our internet communication an OC192 is probably involved. I worked at a data center with a couple of OC3's and our customers would always say "WE HAVE TWO OC3's!" while they did not mention that several THOUSAND customers were on the same lines.

Hehe...that's what I was trying to point out. ^_~

Ignore these jerks trying to emulate FFXI

They are simply trying to get word out so they can say ZMG! servers are up for RMT free servers.

Most likely they will be just a login screen and you input your info and it says some error message. They then login your character and fast send everythign to a mule and have that mule send to another mule and hibranate for 30 days before they just sell it all and make a sh*t load of $$$.

These peopel have been posting this emulation crap for months, nother has been done and nothign true emulator wise will be done. If it was real it would be done already becasue 90% of the information of the game is installed on your Harddrives. It isnt that hard to make a fake login and run the game on your own PC, thing is you are alone, and even if you server emulated it it would still be just your little group and you would also have to emulate timers and a lotta other junk that the remaining 10% is made from.

Quit trying to scam people!

EDIT: Good luck getting your character information off SE servers!

Edited, Aug 30th 2006 at 5:07pm EDT by GanondolfWizard

The truthfulness of the OP's post is irrelevant for this...

I would absolutely LOVE to have the server code / emulation code for XI. I would reconfigure my entire PC just to be able to run it as a server. I prefer to play XI on the ps2, but I could switch to PC.

The more general question I have is how do people get ahold of the server code in order to create an emulated server? The odds of someone writing their own code for the game server in order to emulate seems rather.... bad, so I would assume there's some sort of data capture involved?

Smart enough to not be wasting my time trying to break a code and get arrested.

Yes watch for trojans folks.

Getting your character information is easy, I can view it in about 10 seconds.

lol @ guy with the weed avatar being scared about getting arrested for programming.