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I've done some preliminary research into unpacking the executable and have played with a few tools that look promising. I think unpacking is still possible, that being said it is...

I had just a little extra time before my busy push started so I decided to put this into a Windows XP development environment since some of the tools only...

@ShiftaDeband thanks for uploading @fuzziqersoftware's tool. I was aware that existed but could not find it myself. I just took a quick look at the source and it validated one...

@nolrinale, Oh just some of the header info matched what I was seeing in the debugger so that makes me think I may be on the right track, or not...

@nolrinale, using Fuzzi's launcher I was able to run this client and check the screens for you, but they are not as you expected. Take a look at the attached...

Ok, a bit of a surprise for me here: On a whim I decided to try and load PSOBB on a Windows 11 PC (using Fuzzi's launcher) To my surprise...

Thanks for that info, I was completely unaware of that behavior, I was wondering what the .pat version was used for. But that gives me something to investigate.

I have the these additional entries in my host file: db.psobb.cn patch.psobb.cn game01.us.segaonline.jp patch01.us.segaonline.jp I didn't think it was using any of those, as a packet trace only showed connection...

I haven't tried both server and client on the same box before, so as a test I started a Windows newserv server and the new client on the same Windows...

Well that is curious. Mine has been working without those ports in my config.json. I wonder, is there something about Fuzzi's launcher that changes the client? How did you manage...