Having a "TCOS Memories" Day :(

Yep, and that is a problem for me.

I do own several versions of Unreal, but never actualy did any modding etc.

 

For Spellborn I can say I was a enthousiastic player who just missed out on the european servers and even though my wife and I did buy some time cards for SB we were not able to use them. The game went to the free to play mode via the US servers and Acclaim.

 

The only things we have today is the serveral versions / installers of Spellborn and the patchfiles to do the upgrades in between versions.

From someone on the Original team we know the server could be used on a laptop system, but the system running the database with all the client transactions would be a more complicated system. (Not knowing which type of database was used. )

 

I've seen SQL and several other types of data access in the code, but since those kind of things are a bit more complex for me I really didn't spend much time on it.

 

I've put my time more into the way the data storage in the Spellborn packages and allready got a lot of things out of it, but you might understand it's far from complete.

The way the SB team has changed things in the core, engine and other system files means the way the data is stored in the packages might be different from other Unreal games.

 

With a network sniffer program I did see some communications from the client to the previous server, and changing some ini file I was able to let it try to connect to a different computer of my own, but this "server" or database gave off course the wrong response and the SB client gives a no server found message.

 

For the encryption of the client connection and gameguard software you should know that the gameguard is introduced after the beta versions, so for testing things out I used the client version 0.8.  This one has an installer and debug window in the background, don't know if you have it, otherwise try to find it online.

 

I'm interested in how you got along so far.

 

PS, some of my earlier post contain pictures as example of things done earlier.

 

Greetings Jan-Willem