sagor

after the researchment. i think the game is developed for only money, not like metin1. so, i dropped the researchment of the game. i never do any search for this game. all the koreans are hates too much to game. theyre saying this game is shittest game ever. in short; ymir fcked up the game like 20 years ago. they failed. its not my words, %95 of the koreans are said this. good luck to everyone. i dropped my metin2 diary right now.

This game is so fun old days because the old days was good, not the fcking game.

Big F.

3 minutes ago, Exynox said:

Thank you for your contribution! It has now occurred to me just how much information was available on the topic, but hidden away from the most of us simply because we haven't been blessed with speaking Korean. It would be nice if we could somehow archive everything properly within M2Dev's wiki. Having everything translated would be the cherry on top.

Nonetheless, I feel that the assets of these early Metin2 clients might still be around, buried somewhere on some Korean forum. The ruliweb page had two download links that maybe could lead us somewhere:

METIN II Beta Client 최신버젼 다운로드(서버1): ftp://211.39.150.71/pub/MetinII0_0_1.exe
METIN II Beta Client 최신버젼 다운로드(서버2): ftp://211.105.222.13/pub/MetinII0_0_1.exe

The "MetinII0_0_1.exe" filename might be a starting point? Another thing I'm planning to do is to crawl the Korean IPv4 space for public FTP servers and check whether there are any resources hosted there. It's quite a long shot, but might be worth it.

Lastly, I have a feeling that the original kraizy/2014 YMIR leak could contain these assets. To my knowledge sadly, SVN doesn't really locally store anything but the latest revision, but who knows.

Thanks for the reply. I found a Korean Metin2 private server group and joined. Here's the link of the cafe:

A live Korean group for Metin2, they're playing on local server


And i found more Metin2 cafe's:
https://cafe.naver.com/dongseokson
https://cafe.naver.com/lmetin2sub
https://cafe.naver.com/elley
https://cafe.naver.com/metin2l
https://cafe.naver.com/metinp
https://cafe.naver.com/metintow
https://cafe.naver.com/metincafe

daum cafes:
https://cafe.daum.net/metin2
https://cafe.daum.net/metin2love2
https://cafe.daum.net/metin24
https://cafe.daum.net/m2cafe
 

Edit: I found a live Korean LOL! He read my message on naver but he didnt respond to me :(((. I think he is a YMIR personal because he has many topics on announcement channel. I typed back but i do not think he will respond F.

Edit2: And if you want research something, use DeepL for translating. This is so good and im using this while searching something.

Use daum and naver for searching too. Its like Google search engine on Korea.

Beta maps, Map1 and Map2

Minimaps on game (not sure but %80 i think)

Warrior old wait animation

1 hour ago, TMP4 said:

Nice find, thank you for posting this topic.

That "2003 February like 1.Closed Beta" must be just an early concept presentation and not a playable game. There's no way they developed it then scrapped it right away and came with what we have now.

Thanks for the reply. Yes, this is a early concept but they did a beta process and hired like 500 people on korea. When I read, theyre said "This game is so bad" many times on comments. After that, they changed the game and did 3.closed beta process with a different content. (Like 2004 February). [1-2.Closed beta process is this game i shared. (2003 version)] Sorry for bad english.

Edit: I found 2.closed beta process started on 2003 July.

16 hours ago, Exynox said:

Well, the answer was always there, in the source code it's referred as PCBANG, basically a Internet Cafe system where you would pay to play games (like in the good old days of our childhood). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_bang The odd thing is that payment information & management was integrated into the game, so that you'd get kicked if you haven't paid xD.

What I'd like to know is whether the PC bang functionality for Metin2 was only used during the beta, or also after the game was released.

They removed the PCBANG thing on 2005, because theyre did the game free to play.

First version of METIN2 - (2003 February like 1.Closed Beta)

A TV program, they introduce Metin2
Look at 33:00 and 38:00 around, they introducing Metin2 on TV. I was shocked because i didnt saw these maps before on this video. And events too. Can someone clip it and share to here?
 

LOL i found 1 video too
TV introduction 2 - Starts at 45:00

TV introduction 3 Starts at 25:30

58 minutes ago, Gurgarath said:

I love that kind of stuff. Good findings, everything is so interesting. Including the mask thingy or the scrapped "common map" from the screenshot. I also wonder what font they used and if they used it bold back then. Thanks for those findings! It's a bummer the exe is not working / we do not have a full client from that era.

Thanks for reply. I found too many things but i did not put them. If I have time, i will put the more screenshots with description and extra 1 video from 2004 Korean game introduction on TV 

Hello, i was searching like 2 years from Metin2's Closed Beta and found something. If someone interested, they can check the links below.

I found some Korean Metin2 Cafe's from 2004:

Naver 2004 Metin2 Cafe
Daum 2004 Metin2 Cafe

and more.. But if you want, you can search for.

 

I found the Metin2.exe from 16.07.2004 on ftp.metin2.co.kr. I think its not working but if you wanna you can check.
16.07.2004 Metin2.exe
Virustotal
 

Magazine From 2003 METIN2 FIRST BETA
(Magazine from 2003 February. It contains Metin2 photos. Its SO SO DIFFERENT)
Article from 2003 METIN2
(Article from Metin2 2003.)
Metin2 Beta test appeal
(Lol someone won the Metin2 beta test)

Some screenshots from metin2 cafes 2004:

(Sura's first character model. He had mask before. But they removed after like 2-3 patch. I read from cafe. And he's holding the first level 1 sword model.)


(First level 1 weapon models. They're some different.)

(This is oldest photo ive ever seen from 3.closed beta. Its from 2004 March)

And more...... If I add the all contents, i cant finish. So, please check manually from the cafe links.

Can someone reupload for metin2 starter with no hackshield exe? i tried to change the metin2.bin to metin2.exe but it did not work hshield error appears already

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