enjoyablycraving Posted February 20, 2022 Group: Members Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 7 Reputation: 4 Joined: 01/16/21 Last Seen: March 15 Share Posted February 20, 2022 (edited) This project has continued at https://www.ragnarok.wiki ! Edited February 5 by enjoyablycraving 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enjoyablycraving Posted February 21, 2022 Group: Members Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 7 Reputation: 4 Joined: 01/16/21 Last Seen: March 15 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) Project has been voluntarily and permanently discontinued. Edited May 5, 2022 by enjoyablycraving 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Start_ Posted February 21, 2022 Group: Members Topic Count: 25 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 924 Reputation: 167 Joined: 04/05/13 Last Seen: 2 hours ago Share Posted February 21, 2022 1 hour ago, enjoyablycraving said: This is probably something someone has already figured out, but.. Confirmed - binkw32.dll in the (modern) client is literally for displaying the intro video from the RO Alpha Amazingly, the RO Clients which contain binkw32 (which even includes euRO as of 10/10/2021) contain leftover code which was intended for displaying an introductory video before the client loaded which originally showed a promo-like video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQxNqAG9wUE) and still exists to this day - a literal carrying forward of an Alpha feature. The code still exists within the client to display the videos, but if the video does not exist and there is not a registry key set, RO will skip forwards to the login screen. With a little client trickery (Tech speak: changing a JNZ to a JZ call in a function calling BinkOpen()), the client can be made to always display the startup video, although it will display it with weird scaling which presumably was specific to the RO intro video. The client looks for an opening video called "openning.bik", which originally was the video above. We managed to replace the video after patching the EXE with the generic LucasArts BIK video, and Ragnarok opened up (albeit minimised) and displayed the video, and also played the sound. Unbelievable. Here's an image of the ragnarok client loading an introduction video from a LucasArts game. The sound also works. Nice, I remember my first day playing RO. I saw a great intro and I miss it. Also it's good to hear you can replace it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enjoyablycraving Posted December 15, 2022 Group: Members Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 7 Reputation: 4 Joined: 01/16/21 Last Seen: March 15 Author Share Posted December 15, 2022 I am looking into potentially reviving the project but albeit on a more private basis. I'll post updates sporadically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sader1992 Posted December 16, 2022 Group: Content Moderator Topic Count: 55 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1676 Reputation: 703 Joined: 12/21/14 Last Seen: Thursday at 04:50 AM Share Posted December 16, 2022 This topic has been moved to the "Abandoned Projects" sub-forum. If the author is still working on this project, they may request that a moderator moves the topic back and removes this post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enjoyablycraving Posted October 29, 2023 Group: Members Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 7 Reputation: 4 Joined: 01/16/21 Last Seen: March 15 Author Share Posted October 29, 2023 (edited) I've restarted the project but on a much less-frequently-updated basis. Wiki: https://ropp.fandom.com/wiki/Ragnarok_Online_Preservation_Wiki Discord: https://discord.gg/rKqYnrgMD8 Edited October 31, 2023 by enjoyablycraving 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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