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[seawulf]

I think it's great Rajiko is doing this. I've always wondered why so much work needs to go into it anyway though. Besides the ports to different engines like I've read about on here, would that be preference? Or required to run on modern machines? Was this game not intact when it was acquired for the emulator project? I get that this is about emulating the old servers for the game, but why would Rajiko have all the work to do inside the game itself?

I've heard about other emulator projects like SWG being rebuilt from the ground up. Except for wanting to roll back to a previous combat system before an update which may not have been kept, would they not have just been able to take the game, open a server, and control it like SOE did had they wanted to continue where it left off? I'm really curious about the way it works for fun.