Exynox

What's interesting is that the skin for the patcher that can be found in kraizy.tgz, in the TorrentPatch application, is different from the skin in a few posts above:

Firstly, I found this article online, it might be interesting: [Hidden Content] Those bytes that you see are essentially a marker for the actual protection tool to process the machine code after compilation. Without this tool, the bytes don't do much other than be interpreted as code. If we take a look at the x86-32 instructions for NANOBEGIN we'll see the following: 0: eb 03 jmp 0x5 2: d6 (data) 3: d7 (data) 4: 01 (data) Essentially, the CPU short jumps by setting the EIP register 5 bytes ahead, effectively skipping the byte sequence. Therefore, without the proper tooling, NANOBEGIN & friends don't do much else than to waste a few CPU cycles here and there. Probably you'd just want to remove any references to this protection from your source code.

There's a bug in DevIL 1.8.0 in the way it processes TGA files. You can either: use martysama's git repo for the DevIL library: [Hidden Content] patch the bug yourself: [Hidden Content]/commit/0d0c155e3c9945a3ef2e6d474b41a0e373719a3e port the source code to use another image processing library downgrade to an older version of DevIL

Yes, I've also heard that those webfiles were also published around that time, but I haven't been able to find them. Since mcncc is dead, I'd say that website is unobtanium. Still, it's not that much of a loss, since I doubt anyone would want to use a chinese website. It would be nice to check out the quirks, such as the fact that due to Chinese regulations, you had to enter your government identification number in order to register. I also suppose that's the origin of the "social_id" column in the account table, albeit the length is 13 characters, which matches with the Korean RRN, a 13-digit long number, whereas the Chinese was 15 digits at the time.

Download Metin2 Download I also had a README.txt file with the following contents: HEY CUTIES I FOUND THAT PATCH ON FTP SERVER THAT WAS ARCHIVED BUT I STILL RESEARCH THE BETA CLIENT FROM THE YEAR 2003/2004 IF YOU WANNA HELP US AND KNOW SOMENTHING WRITE A EMAIL TO EMAIL: *****@*****.tld DISCORD: ymir#0195

Hi there, As I've promised a couple of times now, I'm posting all the resources I have - of course, while excluding leaks, hacks and so on and so forth. Since some of the resources I have are already posted on M2DL, I just copied their links here. Clients and Serverfiles Generic clients [RELEASE] Client by abesgaara v3.0 - CATACLYSM.rar, with pictures here Client by abesgaara v3.7 - Fall of the Cataclysm.rar Client by abesgaara v3.5 - Evolution CATACLYSM.rar Client metin2.it Omega [NEW]Client By SasuKe v3.0.rar 2011 Client by pilli_96.exe crank_client_v2.exe Modifizierter-2010-Client.rar Unofficial 2009-2010 Gameforge PL client.zip Private server clients ClujanMt2 v1.0.7z eMetin2V1.3.exe eQauLityMt2.rar metin2gx.exe metin2tim.exe Metin2UnitedUS-Setup.exe Metin2Vendetta.rar metin35.rar (password: Metin35) Client + serverfiles packs Daroo Serverfiles 1678-RC-B4: 2011 Client for 1678 Files.rar and Serverfiles1678-RC-B4.exe (password: germany) Profizocker files: Client_by_Profizocker94.exe (password: elitepvpers.de) and Serverfiles_by_Profizocker94_v2.exe (password: elitepvpers.de) Serverfiles only 2009 leaked serverfiles 2009 serverfiles by Rain/InstantServer.exe (password: mcncc.com) 2014 leaked serverfiles Serverfiles by computerkrank v2 2009 serverfiles by Hikaru & AciDDreaM.rar db2010.US.tar File Server 2010 n00b Ediction by Daroo.7z Fully untouched 34083 server files & DB.7z Metin2.tar.gz (EmpireMMORPG Serverfiles) Game content Alles für die Map - Tal von Ascaria (Devildown).rar Armi By Sandoz.rar Ascaria by DanyBany (2011.05.15).rar Ascaria by DanyBany (2011.11.06).rar DevilCatacomt+Quest+RegenDateien #FIXX.7z Handels-Map.rar Ingame-Itemshop.rar M2(cz)_EterPacks_17.0.12.7z Metin2 official archives - lollo_9_1 (martysama0134).exe neue+rüstungen+v5+by+EYvil.rar New Files (Game-Db-Client etc.).rar - this is a bundle made by pasha37 on 01.01.2014 (lol!), containing some useful things such as: GF .DE data/locale/protos, various game/db/client binaries, 2013 hybrid keys, 2013 non-Cython root from Yitian2, the original Windows Serverfiles release and some other miscellanea. Nuova Mappa.rar NW3 Maps & Quests.rar official_shops.rar Packfiles.rar quest_germany.tar.gz Miscellaneous tools Since probably there's little use for this, I decided to upload them in a single archive. It includes things such as archivers, client starters, libs, game diffs, autopatchers, map editors. And a Portmap I translated into Romanian. Web/web-related The same goes for this category as well. These are all old, crappy resources, probably full of exploits. Use at your own risk. I'm happy to complete this collection with your submissions once they're uploaded on M2DL. Regards, Exynox.

Here's a 2011 Metin1 client localized in English I found from back when there was an English server running. I hope it's useful to somebody: [Hidden Content]

I hope you're probably aware that having (popular) Metin2-related repositories on GitHub opens you up to possible copyright infringement claims. This can lead, as it happened multiple times, to account deletions and bans. I don't see the problem with this system where M2DL automatically (?) updates with the private repository's content. Also, having a separate topic for each release seems better imo, as the discourse is not interfered with by having a thousand different subjects being discussed at the same time.

Oh, thank you! It seems that I already have this file catalogued as an official Yitian2 / Metin2 client run by CATV from 2005: Are you sure it's a modified client by Rain? Everything about it seems pretty official to me. Nonetheless, I'd be interested in the other old stuff. I'm almost ready to start a thread with my own collection of files, maybe you and other people could contribute as well!

Hi there! A small update: I've found and added the 2010 Gameforge Beta client, another Z8Games US client, and two Mexico Gameforge clients (I didn't even realise there was a Mexico locale until now!). One of these clients is the only 2012 GF client we have currently in this collection... @ AZICKO, I'd appreciate if you would be so kind to update M2Download with these new additions: [Hidden Content] 2007-2011/Metin2US_v1023.exe [Hidden Content] 2010.08 BETA/Metin2_Testclient.exe [Hidden Content] 2011.12/Metin2_mx_20111216.exe [Hidden Content] 2012.03/Metin2_mx_20120330.exe

Download Center Mega or M2DL I remember this client especially for the included music! Our Romanian clients were something else, man... If we're doing this, I'd like to contribute with version 3.0! (I will soon upload my entire collection, but I have to clean it up from the useless stuff...)

Original Rain client? I remember everyone using custom clients back in the day (modified Gameforge ones, metin35, abesgaara etc.). I didn't know Rain also released a client. Would you mind sharing?

I guess it's only a matter of time... I've seen proof of a more recent leak, from after the official source tree switched to DirectX 9. But don't get your hopes up, it's been a while since the leak and it's probably kept really secret. The Rain files are also posted on this forum; I probably have some others as well, maybe I'll post them if there's enough interest.

I see it's an universal experience. I only had 512MB of RAM, but I thought I could run Windows Vista xD. Also... 1GB of DDR1? That was a lot for the time!

Download Center MEGA or M2DL Hello, guys and girls, This release is something sentimental to me, so either brace up or skip this story. It was late 2009 or early 2010 when I stumbled upon this post. It is the only remaining copy on the internet of the original Chinese forum post providing the leaked files. The files were originally distributed through a Chinese service called Rayfile, a quasi-P2P file sharing system based on the obscure FS2You protocol, described in this scientific paper. For us, mortals, a MegaUpload link was provided, and we all know of the famous bust that Thanos-snapped everything hosted there out of existence. (or maybe the hard drives are locked in some FBI basement somewhere, idk) I downloaded the files, but being just a young lad who only wanted to play some Metin2 (i.e. with no sysadmin experience), I meddled with the files, trying to somehow run them on my 3,06 GHz Pentium 4, socket 478, Windows XP potato computer. Check out the picture on the side. This bad boy could barely run the Metin2 client -- but I had dreams, dreams - I say! At the time I didn't even know FreeBSD existed. There were some tutorials around, but looking back, I think they were for Metin1, which was leaked at around the same time. Nonetheless, these guides required you to install VMware (rip ✝) Player, instead of Microsoft Virtual PC we got used to. It was rough, as at the time, VMware Player didn't have the ability to create new virtual machines - this was reserved only to VMware Workstation. Therefore, those guides also provided you empty virtual machine files. By some miracle, my machine could run the VM even without VT-d, which kind of kickstarted my interest in administrating computers. I promptly started playing around with Windows 98 VMs. I was sidetracked. I failed at getting the sweet Metin2 server running, so I deleted the files, thinking they were broken or something. I didn't know better. Then the mcncc.com InstantServer was released for the less talented like me, and that's how I started regaining interest in Metin2 servers. ...which brings back to the issue at hand. I soon realised how dumb I was for deleting the files. I couldn't even find the forum post, not to mention that in the meanwhile, MegaUpload was reduced to atoms. That was that, until a few days ago, when I somehow found the post. There it was, the original Rayfile link: fs2you://Y2FjaGVmaWxlOS5yYXlmaWxlLmNvbS96aC1jbi9kb3dubG9hZC9iYjBmMjFmODY0ZjgyMjJjNjAzNTBiNTRmOWRmMjQzYy95dDIucmFyfDE1NTU2NzA0Nw==/ And once the obvious base64 string was decoded, I was reunited with my old friend: cachefile9.rayfile.com/zh-cn/download/bb0f21f864f8222c60350b54f9df243c/yt2.rar|155567047 That's how we now know that the original file we're looking for is yt2.rar, with a length of 155567047 bytes (148,36 MiB). The original file is nowhere to be found: if you somehow have it, by any miracle, please contribute! Still, plugging "yt2.rar" into DuckDuckGo, led me to an epvp post, where I learned that one of the files in that archive was called "game0901.tar.gz". I kept digging, and found two traces of the file: [Hidden Content] [Hidden Content] The second website still had the listing for game0901.tar.gz saved in Google's cache. It sadly was deleted from the website itself, but based on the metadata, I then knew two things: game0901.tar.gz was 135,8 M(i)B in size. The other files in yt2.rar were probably: mysql.tar.gz, ports.tar.gz, and lib.tar.gz So I paid my 2€ to the Chomik website (lmao, what a name), which was in itself an adventure. I now had my hands on some of the files and on a 2007-2008 Gameforge Polish client, which I'll probably also upload, but can't verify its authenticity. To my disappointment, mysql.tar.gz seems to have been tampered with, seeing some 2017 timestamps in there. The tarballs for the other two files also had 2022 timestamps, not to mention that the file sizes wouldn't really add up, no matter how I arranged the files or what compression I used. Still, better than nothing. Now, at least I had some more information to continue my search. Luckily, I tended to hoard a lot of useless Metin2 junk, which would nowadays qualify as prime Pokemon server material. So out I pulled my DVD backups, and I searched for hours. And suddenly, there it was... but not in the way I expected it: A .tar.gz archive, precisely 135,798 MiB in size, which matched the one stored by our Chomik friend. And the timestamp inside the archive was promising too: 1251810149 - 01.09.2009, 13:02 UTC. Translated into Hong Kong time, that would still be September 1st, 20:02. Which matches with the "0901" in "game0901.tar.gz". Why is it called "filer.tar.gz" is anyone's guess. I saw that there are some tutorials using that name. My guess is that could be a Swedish or an incorrect Turkish plural for the English "file"... So, while "yt2.rar" is still at large, 15 years after that delete, I'm happy at last. I managed to find the most important file: Name: game0901.tar.gz / filer.tar.gz Size: 142394597 bytes (135 MiB) Date: Tue Sep 01 2009 13:02:29 GMT+0000 CRC32: 6CB5D7C0 SHA256: 09295B3EDC9A4F465038E80C702B0BCC1DBDCE61B0478FB72D37BDD9D2A21548 SHA1: E5DF2443F7997F4ED034590FD8DCA9D133DAC1B4 MD5: 9E954C11CF065BDD647BFBB6D6FA9344 If it's still unclear what the archives are for, here's a short description: game0901.tar.gz - 2009 server files from Yitian2, a Metin2 official server that ran in the Hong Kong SAR, China lib.tar.gz - shared object files required for running the various binaries mysql.tar.gz (modified in 2017 by a certain "Yusuf") - MySQL data files for the server database ports.tar.gz - FreeBSD ports tree, one of the ways through which you can install applications by building them. I hope we can preserve a bit of the private servers scene's history with this release. And please, if you somehow still have "yt2.rar", it would be amazing to upload it for us. Regards, Exynox.