Star Wars Galaxies Emulator Test Server Hits Alpha

CoffeeHedake writes "The SWGEMU (Star Wars Galaxies Emulator) Team has successfully run their first Alpha stage test of a reverse-engineered version of Sony Online Entertainment's Star Wars Galaxies server software. An announcement was made on the SWGEMU bulletin boards that something special would be shown in their IRC channel at 12:00AM EST Today. A hosted video montage of the successfully connecting the SWG client to an emulated server, loading a character, zoning from one area to another, and other huge leaps were shown in the clip." Read on for more information, including links to the video clip. CoffeeHedake provides a pointer to the forum and current announcement, and links to the video at several mirrors:

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CoffeeHedake continues "This all comes after much very bad press for SOE, after completely changing the game mechanics of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided. The game has had a rocky history, with nerfs and bugs abounding, but the latest 'NGE' or New Game Enhancement patches have led to the detrimental decline in player population. SWGEMU was formed with the hopes of allowing players to 'roll back' their experiences to a Pre-'Combat Upgrade' state of the game, months before the ill-fated NGE was implemented."

"The SWGEMU will allow private, emulated game servers to be run by anyone with the hardware and bandwidth to support the load, possibly allowing customized environments, and game mechanics, as well as a 'dungeon master' control of the server, possibly even over a LAN."

"News has spread, even throughout the Sony Online Entertainment forums of SWGEMU's latest success. No word from Sony, as of yet."

Comments

One Big Problem

[Holdstrong]

The original game sucked too.

People wax poetic about the pre-NGE days but they seem to forget that those changes came because the game was a mess and everyone was crying for a change. Just because the changes made the game worse, doesn't mean the game was good to begin with.

I like the idea of a reverse engineered MMORPG emulator from a geek point of view, but this game sucked no matter who hosts or controls it.

Re:One Big Problem

[toolie]

But they were more star wars fans than video game fans.

Even Star Wars fans thought the original game sucked. Yay for everbody being a combat medic/rifleman or fencer/tera kasi with everybody wearing composite armor :/

The original game was bad, it made me quit. If the CU/NGE made it even worse, somebody call Guinness - thats got to be the worse game ever.