EQEMU?

[overlord220]

How did people orginially Emu EQ did they steal the files and leak them to the net or did someone pay SOE? I was just currious wile searching through the forums.

 

[Anatole]

Probably best to ask questions concerning EQEmu, on the EQEmu forums.

 

[Wiz]

Packet sniffing to figure out network/packet routines and then building their own backend around that.

 

[antihelei]

god that must have taken so much work its giving me a headache thinking about it

reverse engineering an entire video game as complicated as eq sounds like a nightmare

 

[Wiz]

god that must have taken so much work its giving me a headache thinking about it

reverse engineering an entire video game as complicated as eq sounds like a nightmare

It's not even reverse engineering. And yes, it was a lot of work.