Hello rAthena, it looks like some of you are still out there.
So I haven't run a private RO server in a VERY LONG time. To give you an idea, my last server was run with Weiss/Fusion. I'm looking to run an up to date server using rAthena on my HP Proliant which is running Windows Server 2016. I cloned the latest github release a few days ago and was able to successfully compile. I was also able to successfully get MySQL 8 all set up with the necessary schemas, tables and such. Ports 6900, 6121, and 5121 are opened via the router and Windows Server Firewall. I'm thinking everything is ok server side.
Here's where the problems begin. There are so many official clients out there that I have no idea which one to use. I first went and downloaded the latest iRO, patched up to the latest version, and was able to use the latest NEMO patcher to successfully patch the client to read the data folder first, and disable the need for 1rag1 on the command line. The game booted, I was able to log in (i got some weird Character Info size error: "Character_Info Size 145"), but was able to get past this to the character creation screen. I created a default female human character with a test name. The character appeared with a black silhouette for an outfit, and was looking for a missing palette. It looks like it was calling for a Novice 5 pallet, of which there are only 4 in the GRFs. When I attempted to login, a crash. From then on, whenever I would login, it would immediately crash before the character select screen. So, I gave up on iRO and figured I'd give kRO a try since this is what most private servers use.
I downloaded kRO_FullClient_20180327 from this forum, it looks to be one of the most recent clean clients at this time. I attempted to patch with NEMO with some success. Now, when I booted the game I received a hell of a lot of "attempted to call a nill value" errors and it never booted. (Note: for both iRO and kRO I've been patching Ragexe).
My Clientinfo.xml is as follows: (I have no idea what version to put and tried several: 18, 20, 22, 45, 55. I also tried using service type Korea and server type Sakray to no avail)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="euc-kr" ?> <clientinfo>
<servicetype>america</servicetype>
<servertype>primary</servertype>
<hideaccountlist></hideaccountlist>
<extendedslot></extendedslot>
<connection>
<display>GG Ragnarok Online</display>
<desc>None</desc>
<address>~MYWANIP~</address>
<port>6900</port>
<version>55</version>
<langtype>1</langtype>
<registrationweb>~REGISTRATIONURL~</registrationweb>
<yellow>
<admin>2000000</admin>
<admin>2000001</admin>
<admin>2000002</admin>
</yellow>
</connection> </clientinfo>
So from the looks of it, either there is a little tweaking that may need to be done server side to make those iRO errors/crashes stop happening, or if the server requires kRO, I have to figure out what's causing all of those "call a nill value" errors.
Another extra thing I tried, was to use the client and data provided on this forum shared by AnacondaQQ for the 2018 offline server. I switched up the clientinfo file, and the game booted. I was able to login, (the login server console accepted the connection) but I wasn't able to get to the character selection screen and beyond. I received a failed to connect to server error. So I gave up on using that client as well.
Can anyone out there who has some experience with rAthena follow all this and chime in with some possible solutions if you've ever run into something like this before? I'm thinking my problems are more client side vs server side since logging in works. I'm sure if I had a client that wouldn't error out, it would login and be able to play just fine. If you need some additional information just let me know.
Thanks ?
