JiKeidan

For those of you reading this right now, I'm having to rebuild a client exe for the game, as I am updating all my data files to the newer kRO release as of 04-12-2013 from the ratemyserver.com website. So I am actually giving Riful's fix from a couple posts up a try myself, now... and I'll let you know how it works * * * * * * And it does work, quite nicely. But to further detail... His first link doesn't work directly... so go to http://supportmii.com/ro1/Clients/ and select the WeeDiff link... then go to his second link http://sourceforge.net/projects/atwl/files/ and use the April, of 2013 link and download the WDGPacketHeaderObfuscation.R2.dll... then when you unzip the original weediff you download via the first link, you'll notice 2 packetheader .dll files in the plugins... packetheader*.dll and packetheader*.R2... leave the first one, write over the R2 with the one you downloaded individually, and that should do ya. Works on the 04-2012 Ragexe.exe. Hope it helps!

=) Hey guys... if I may: Myself and another individual (Riful) worked pretty tirelessly on a similar issue, and what verywell may end up turning out to be the same issue. If I may direct you to that posting for your consideration... - http://rathena.org/board/topic/79839-unknown-byte-0x970-20120410ragexre-rathena-17179-kro-20121001/ - Take a look and give it a bit of thought, it's pretty thorough - and if it helped you, be sure to come back to this post and let the others know =)

Bottom line is A ) you can't alter the multiple windows setting for your client without hexing the client... & B ) you can't or at least *shouldn't* diff an already diff'd client - if you were altering the hex yourself it would be a different story, but the wee diff generator is an automated program that presents to you nice and simple check boxes next to options for you to select from =). Re-using EXACTLY your old settings isn't as important as ensuring you have the most relevant client for your desires. - http://www.supportmii.com/ro1/Clients/ Read carefully what you're selecting and unselecting and don't be afraid to experiment!

Is there perhaps something a bit more specific you were wanting to know about it?

Unfortunate events take place no matter what field your in, or how good you are at it. However, if you wouldn't mind elaborating on the administrative duties that you're looking to be handled... I might be able to help (depending, of course on the scope, location, etc)

lol tru nuf

Well if you've recently installed rAthena, that should be a deprecated fix - from what I understand. As you said though .... and I myself and rather hazy on the solutions =P

did some more digging real quick... http://sourceforge.net/projects/atwl/files/WeeDiffGen/ contains a DLL you might try. let me know

I did, actually... sorry man i should have posted... I don't know WHY my version of weediffgen Doesn't seem to work... but apparently it's the one on http://www.supportmii.com/ro1/Clients/ that is supposed to work... Earthlingz had released (if you've followed my trail) a .dll for the WDGSkipPacketHeaderObfuscation.dll in the plugins folder... but not every release of that was actually viable. I never did come across one that was... And if I have to rediff my exe then i'm kinda screwed... but you have to find one that was released by ae4rie ??? and put it in the plugins folder, overwriting the previous one... For whatever reason the 2012-04-10 clients seem to be hit or miss... of course there's a REASON for it... but i don't know what it is. I'll do some messaging around and see if I can't find/get ahold of a viable copy of the necessary programs, as I'm going to need them to rebuild my clients a bit Obfuscation (in software development) is the act of deliberately writing hard to follow code. The 0x970 byte is something that was put in the client as a failsafe. By "skipping packet header obfuscation", you are thereby forcing the client not to write those similar bytes into the packet headers coming through the network socket, and that's where the problem lies. If you have gotten everything working and this is your only issue, then when you do get it corrected, you should have a working client. But i recommend you just give up and come join my project

what you mean?... OH the patchers?... actually i did not =\ lol i know it says to, but I decided to try and run things one step at a time =P

yah, that about taps me out on knowledge man. I wish i could be of more help. IF you're using 2012-04-10 Renewal exe, and v3 of alex's data folder, then I don't know how you're getting any language issues...

alright man, sounds good, but I'm whiped out, gonna head to bed and I'll catch up with you in the morning... or afternoon as the case may be.

Ok that specific issue yes, comes down to your "lua" files... with 2012-04-10, if you download alexandria's v3 pack, and diff up "ONLY THE DATA folder" you'll find that problem solved **you'll also find an option in your differ... load lua files before lub.. .check that

There is only 1 dll that really matters, and it's the WDGSkipPacketHeaderObfuscation.dll ...that dll does not work with later clients... you can see this in action by attempting to diff a 2012 client, and observing that it has NO option to "skip packet header obfuscation"... I however, do not know where to get the correct dll... as stated above. That's where I must leave it up to you guys =P

Ok man... I'm going to go ahead and outline for you what I had done... Horrible time downloading these, get the latest full release... yes, ALL the files... This is a clean installation build of the game. http://ratemyserver.net/index.php?page=download_kROLinks Then you'll need Alexandria's respective build.... if you plan to use a more recent version (2012 or greater) then use v3... if ealier, v2 or v1... depending http://rathena.org/board/topic/66962-basic-complete-renewal-data-english-folder/ ONCE YOU HAVE HER DATA FOLDER... go into the folder, be sure to edit the clientinfo.xml prior to building your grf!!! Add your correct IP, make sure (if you're using 2012-04-10 exe it's version 30) you're using the correct version. Make sure the IP address is yours... etc... Then with that in mind, you'll need one of the clients... I recommend 2012-04-10a... it's clean and updated. http://supportmii.com/ro1/Clients/ On that same website ( http://supportmii.com/ro1/Clients/ ) you'll find at the bottom, Weediff2012Pack... download it HOWEVER you will need a replacement dll. This is the part that had me worst off... I couldn't find any answer to it, and the answer I did finally get came from Kodak, a user on this very forum. Basically the original Diff agent was created by "Shin" as people call him. And later on around 05-2012 Earthlingz (a user on this forum as well) created an updated version of it. I don't know why it doesn't work with those later clients.. it was explained to me that *some* of earthlingz's patches didn't quite pan out (i don't know the story)... but to use ai4rei's instead... (reason being because you have to diff your exe to A) not read the data folder, and skip packet header obfuscation - a problem that becomes all too apparent) On that note, the exe was built for me... But perhaps you can do some digging and get ahold of that dll (WDGSkipPacketHeaderObfuscation.dll) Diff the client. Create a grf using any builder... easy to dig up on this forum... create the grf OF the data folder you download from alexandria Create a new folder, call it Ragnarok Online... Unpack all of your downloads of the basic kRO download into the folder... ensuring to maintain each of them has a lateral relationship with each other Copy the grf and your PROPERLY DIFFED ragexRE executable to your folder Start the game up using your exe... it's that, dare i say - simple.. Biggest thing to realize... if you get a 0x970 byte error in your server.. that disconnects your client... that is a version inconsistancy in your client. If you use all the specifically mentioned versions in this particular guide... that shouldn't happen... IF you get an error stating a #7 disconnect, unknown packet(blahblah) ... that is because your client was not diffed correctly, to IGNORE packet header obfuscation... You follow this guide, square away those couple few details, and you're good. ########### #Edit ############################ #This is only a client guide... any gaps or holes in the plan, someone please feel free to edit it, quote #and correct, w/e you gotta do... or let me know and i'll fix it... just tryin to make the process that little #bit much easier. #####################################################################################

I'd apprecaite it if you did

yes i do... here you go, can't promise the speed will be fast... but it's a file =P http://jikeidan.dyndns.org/ro1/rename_me.grf

Umm yeah man, I suppose so... again though, I used Alexandria's Data_v3 gimme a few mintues to upload it to my server

well if it works it works... mine works too, flawlessly... =D

hrm... lub files eh?... try using alexandria's v3. (for 2012 and later) and make a grf out of it http://rathena.org/board/topic/66962-basic-complete-renewal-data-english-folder/ **Specifically the data folder O.O

Notice as well your brown/black dude there can't see that your white guy is in the party... no hp bar. idk if he's player 1 or what... but yah.. perhaps something to do with weirded up party sharing rules?

My apologies ahead of time for the longevity of this post. I have been reading, religiously, the many posts on your wonderful eAthena and rAthena servers, trying to learn this server/client software and relationship over the last 2 days... nonstop. Computer goes out for a smoke break with me. I have since quit smoking =) "Hooray me!" That being said... this is going to be thorough, as I have seen this issue quite a few times, with limited explanation and just a few details seeming to be amiss on my setup. As an overview: rAthena 17179 on a GNU/Linux Debian 6.0.6 server. PACKETVER=20120410 as per the ./configure --enable-packetver=20120410 (handy) 2012-04-10aRagexRE.exe - diffed using Shin's Diff. The elustreous Alexandria's Data pack: http://rathena.org/board/topic/66962-basic-complete-renewal-data-english-folder/ Magicaltux's GRF builder: http://rathena.org/board/topic/53305-grf-builder/ And finally, the basic kRO packages (data.grf, rdata.grf, dll's, and patchers) from: http://ratemyserver.net/index.php?page=download_kROLinks PROBLEM however, is... I have found that with my current version of rAthena, I shouldn't need to add a new mmo.h block and recompile... that fix seemed to be around the 15xxx era. Given the outline, my method was: Download ALL files mentioned Create new folder: Ragnarok Online Copy kRO dll's to folder Make MYgrf.grf using Alexandria's data folder Copy Alexandria's Data pack (data and all other linear folders) to Ragnarok Online folder (overwriting and merging) Create DATA.INI using: [data] 0=mygrf.grf 1=rdata.grf 2=data.grf Create MyRagexRE.exe using Shin's "Differ" =P Copy MyRagexRE.exe to Ragnarok Online folder Copy MYgrf.grf to Ragnarok Online folder When I load MyRagexRE.exe I get a login window asking for username and pass. Having manually pushed an SQL entry into "login" db, it allows for 1 username, mine... and a humble little password... **** and I log in. I then go to create a new character, little guy pops up... I give him a nickname, choose a nifty hair dew and add some hue..... Clicking OK hoping to be taken to my character stat negotiations, I am instead disconnected... the server displaying the error above. I again apologize for the longevity of this post - but I can not figure out where I have gone wrong. I'm pretty sure I just created a tutorial on how to set yourself up a client (leaving out the clientinfo.xml (to which i have used version 26? in accordance with Alexandria's default)) Any help is appreciated. Ok, after having whiped the server, and re-installing it via SVN... now at r17185 I am able to create a character... However, when I attempt to select the character and move into the map server, I'm disconnected: EDIT****** I have discovered my client version to be 30, rebuilding the grf and updating clientinfo.xml as necessary. I've also set athena_login.conf to check for versions, and specified version 30... as well in packet_db I have checked to make sure my client (again 20120410) is listed, as it is... under version 30... hopefully i'll have some decent results... And to no avail... So now I know my client is version 30. I know the server is checking for clients... I know the server is specifying version 30. I know the packet_db in fact HAS version 30 listed as 20120410... And I know that i'm being kicked off due to [Info]: clif_parse: Disconnecting session #7 with unknown packet version (p:0x464d,l:19). Any one *elses* input is appreciated As well I'd like to add that I've done enough research to realize that the problem falls on skipping packet header obfuscation... makes sense. I have tried diffing the client with Shin's differ, using Earthlingz's WDGSkipPacketHeaderObfuscation.dll ... No change. The option to "Skip packet header obfuscation" does not exist with or without that dll... It does work with < 2012 exe's, however, I'd really much rather use 2012-04-10, as I've heard it's far more stable and allows for far greater customization of the game (once it's going )

LoL yes it is, I think once I finally have a more thorough grasp on it, I'm writing up a newbie doc on the wiki... maybe they'll use it, maybe not... but wow it'd be useful. thanks for reading it btw lol... I'm beginning to lose faith in the ability for others to even understand my literal speak =\ I'd also like to add... http://rathena.org/board/topic/79839-unknown-byte-0x970-20120410ragexre-rathena-17179-kro-20121001/ the topic I opened up on the 0x970 byte... because if possible, i'd prefer to get it working with the 2012-04-10 client executable

I think what he needs is some sort of documentation describing the file tree, and method of calling the files required. on the flip side... @katazui: a little bit more background would be useful, so any one would know how to go about addressing your situation. speak as if you are creating a how-to for others, up until the problem that you are experiencing... that helps other people help you. By seeing the actions you've taken to get to where you are, anyone with experience might be able to determine any gaps in logic, or perhaps a flaw that was created due to an update?...

personally, I'm going to need a lot more detail than that. Which client .exe are you using? Where did you get your kRO basic starter download? Which data file download are you using? Start with that much, and we'll move forward from there. I'm having a lot of issues getting up and started myself, but maybe we can combine our lesser experiences into something and gain from it.