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I just wanted to stop in to say thanks to the Dev team for continuing to support this great game after all these years. RO was a very important game to me in my youth and to see that the community is still active after all this time is amazing. Back in the old days, I always considered running my own server, but I only finally bit the bullet on it recently. I never suspected that the entire server backend would be open-source! As such, I modded the bejeezus out of it. For starters, my server is PRE-RE, however, I backported almost all of the new content from Renewal into it. Here is my Doram character in Malangdo. It's actually pretty easy to pull renewal content into PRE-RE, since they use the same server backend. To pull renewal enemies into pre-re is as simple as grabbing them from db/re's mob-db and mob-skill-db and pulling them into pre-re's mob-db / mob-skill-db. Of course, renewal enemies have slightly different stats, in particular their "max attack" is their "matk" value and their def and mdef values are usually way too high, but that's easily fixed with SDE. Ditto for items and cards, using item-db. As far as the maps are concerned, they're already all in the game, they just don't have warps, so you just need to grab the npc/warps files from renewal and pull them into pre-re. Many renewal dungeons are instances, so you can either pull the instance into pre-re, or do what I did and turn the instance dungeons into normal dungeon floors by adding warps and recreating their mob tables. As for the Doram, it's fairly easy to add them too, I'll probably make a post explaining how to do it at some point. The main thing you have to do is remove your service_korea folder from your prere grf file, which will allow the one from renewal that allows the creation of Doram to be used instead. Then there's a flag in the server settings somewhere that you have to modify so the server won't reject character creation requests for Doram. I'll write up something on this later. The biggest thing I added by far is the ability to rebirth as Super Novice, Star Gladiator, Soul Linker, Ninja, Gunslinger, and Summoner. It always annoyed me that the classes added after the first 12 never got the ability to rebirth, so I did it myself. It's not possible (or at least I can't figure out how to do it) to add new classes to the game since class sprites are hardcoded in the client file, so instead the way I did this is that when you rebirth as one of the new classes, it unlocks a new "quest skill" which is a pre-requisite for their transcendent abilities. The game also checks to see if you have this skill when it determines if you are transcendent (say, for equipping transcendent only armor or getting the 25% max hp / sp bonuses), and it also uses it to force you to the transcendent exp tables. I'd love to share the code for this, but there's so many code changes that it probably can't be done without me just zipping up my entire codebase, which is also somewhat out of date. By I encourage other intrepid coders to experiment! A reborn Ninja's new skill tree. Note the presence of a few Kagerou skills, despite the fact that he is a still a Ninja. The "reborn" skill in the bottom left is the new quest skill that makes this possible. For Ninja / Gunslinger / Star Gladiator / Soul Linker, they get a few skills from their next job as transcendent skills, with many alterations (for example, Soul Linker gains Espa and Eswhoo, but they don't require spirit energy to use, since it's not available. In exchange they have much less power). Summoner gets his post level 100 skills as transcendent skills, since the max level cap is 99. Super Novice gets to become Expanded Super Novice. I also added the ability for Novices to use bows, which required me to make a custom animation for this. The dream of Bow Super Novice is finally real! Beyond this, I also added like a hundred new pets. They all have custom portraits and speech lines. I put up a guide on how to add custom pets elsewhere on the forum if you want to do this. This poor Lunatic is NOT ready for what's about to happen. And then I manually rebalanced the effect of every card in the game and manually tweaked the exp and drop rates of almost every monster in the game. My server is technically 10x, but the beginning feels like 5x or so, while the late game feels more like 20x, because lategame monsters give more exp. I also fixed a ton of bugs and made a number of enhancements, for example if you use the whodrops command, it now shows exact matches first, so if you do "whodrops boots" you actually see slotted boots now! At this point, there's probably some room for debate as to whether or not this game is still Ragnarok Online or something else entirely, but I'm having fun with it. The only problem is that now my regular job seems boring by comparison. Having complete control over the codebase for one of the best games of all time is pretty much impossible to top. Oh well. Everyone reaches the pinnacle of their career sooner or later. I'm sorry if this sounded like a giant advertisement. Actually, my server will probably never be open to the general public. However, where my code is easily distributable I'll probably make some of it available. I've already put up a couple topics sharing some of the files I've written, and I'll probably try to put up a few more once everything is adequately tested (I've also crashed my server about a hundred times already).

Do you have very old clients or emulators lying around? Maybe that old hard drive with RO stuff? How about those old CD-Rs on the shelf? Or are you simply a RO data hoarder? WE WANT YOU! Hi, I’m vit. I’m developing along with o oldinroplayer a *Ragnarok Online Cross-Episode Database*, called RagnaDB. It’s a db in which you’re able to choose a specific episode and we’ll show you all the info precisely as it was back in the day. The idea is for it to be the “one RO database to rule them all”. For this to exist, there’s a great deal of historical research and digital data scavenging involved. Since we’re committed to historical accuracy, we’re on a journey to finding old files (client and server) to feed the db with, as well as (old) reliable sources for data validation. If you were waiting for the right moment to shine and looking for a group of people who will truly appreciate and see value in those dozens of RO gigabytes collecting dust like no one ever had, this is the moment! We’ll love to have you! If any of the words above piqued your interest, you’re more than welcome here. Join our Discord to hear about the latest updates or just hang around! Our Discord: https://discord.gg/cueAdED64N RagnaDB: https://ragnadb.com/

Thanks man. I will post an update once I tested the codes. UPDATE : Bypass strip + glist consume when success working. Thank Bringer for the updated syntax