Watch out - PK2 editing

NuclearSilo · Post by **NuclearSilo** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:52 am

my friend's account got banned because of pk2 editing :cry:

Zypher · Post by **Zypher** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:53 am

figured itd happen sooner or later.

maj · Post by **maj** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:54 am

how can they catch you without being over your shoulder?

PureOwnage · Post by **PureOwnage** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:55 am

He was probably doing something large scale that got him banned. the pk2 files that I edit are very simple in nature, just clothes and what not. Now if he was trying to do what I think he was doing which is something that JM would ban for then he deserves to get banned. I wont go into what I think he was doing because I dont want to leak it to others, or everyone would be doing it.

NuclearSilo · Post by **NuclearSilo** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:00 am

(Sparta)morningdew

17 Jan 2007 00:11 am
Posts: 1609

Posted: 22 Feb 2007 10:05 am
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Please do not edit the files on the Silkroad folder for the 9th degree effect. The patch may find you have a check sum error then ban you for 3rd party software used on your computer. Besides, tampering with the software may bring unrecoverable disasters.

joymax moderation team

What is check sum?

Neutral · Post by **Neutral** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:04 am

Check your inbox NuclearSilo.

sloweredmangyang · Post by **sloweredmangyang** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:04 am

PureOwnage wrote:He was probably doing something large scale that got him banned. the pk2 files that I edit are very simple in nature, just clothes and what not. Now if he was trying to do what I think he was doing which is something that JM would ban for then he deserves to get banned. I wont go into what I think he was doing because I dont want to leak it to others, or everyone would be doing it.

hmm i think i know what you're referring to, and yes that would definetly affect gameplay.

RepKid · Post by **RepKid** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:07 am

sloweredmangyang wrote:
PureOwnage wrote:He was probably doing something large scale that got him banned. the pk2 files that I edit are very simple in nature, just clothes and what not. Now if he was trying to do what I think he was doing which is something that JM would ban for then he deserves to get banned. I wont go into what I think he was doing because I dont want to leak it to others, or everyone would be doing it.

hmm i think i know what you're referring to, and yes that would definetly affect gameplay.

Can you message me about this? What was he doing exactly?

sama98b · Post by **sama98b** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:16 am

NuclearSilo wrote:
(Sparta)morningdew

17 Jan 2007 00:11 am
Posts: 1609

Posted: 22 Feb 2007 10:05 am
Post subject:

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Please do not edit the files on the Silkroad folder for the 9th degree effect. The patch may find you have a check sum error then ban you for 3rd party software used on your computer. Besides, tampering with the software may bring unrecoverable disasters.

joymax moderation team

What is check sum?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum

But sikroad can't use that for the simple reason: Game would take 20min for some ppl to even start.

JinX84 · Post by **JinX84** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:32 am

As much as I have my pk2 file edited myself, I know for a fact that IF you move 1 byte the wrong way, the whole file is corrupted. You won't get banned for using an edited pk2 file. I have my whole music.pk2 replaced with my own songs lol... Not to mention the 100+ other edits (and some are quite large). Also I find it funny that you can replace iSRO's data.pk2 with ksro's and still run it just fine without joymax knowing shit... Kinda funny since there is close to a 400mb difference in filesize

Just trying to clear some things up.

-JinX

MiKe 51-50 · Post by **MiKe 51-50** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:45 am

JinX84 wrote:As much as I have my pk2 file edited myself, I know for a fact that IF you move 1 byte the wrong way, the whole file is corrupted. You won't get banned for using an edited pk2 file. I have my whole music.pk2 replaced with my own songs lol... Not to mention the 100+ other edits (and some are quite large). Also I find it funny that you can replace iSRO's data.pk2 with ksro's and still run it just fine without joymax knowing shit... Kinda funny since there is close to a 400mb difference in filesize

Just trying to clear some things up.

-JinX

How you make music thing? would be awesome

AyoKato · Post by **AyoKato** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:32 am

PureOwnage wrote:He was probably doing something large scale that got him banned. the pk2 files that I edit are very simple in nature, just clothes and what not. Now if he was trying to do what I think he was doing which is something that JM would ban for then he deserves to get banned. I wont go into what I think he was doing because I dont want to leak it to others, or everyone would be doing it.

He was trying to dupe gold prob

William-CL · Post by **William-CL** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:45 am

I am so glad you posted this, I was about to pk2 edit, cause i thought it was legal.

[SD]Twysta · Post by **[SD]Twysta** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:16 am

Yeah zypher is right, sooner or later PK2 Editors will cross a line that joymax can find.

blutrausch · Post by **blutrausch** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:06 am

It's the same in WoW. People were quite amazed by Model Changing first, but you could change the models of some floors to "holes" and fall right through to areas you wouldnt of gotten to before, so they banned these people

mikez0r · Post by **mikez0r** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:33 am

looool ,

i am trying 2 edit my lvl 32+3 glavie 2 a lvl sosun lvl 32+9 but i cant get it 2 work

((
can any1 help me ?

Grtz mikez0r

Mya · Post by **Mya** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:01 am

I wonder how Cruor's doing...

Aviator · Post by **Aviator** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:06 am

He's the PK2 king of all times :wink:

Sunaj · Post by **Sunaj** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:31 pm

I was wondering, i heard ppl got rid of that starch bug thing, where

nothing flows in the wind anymore, is that thru the PK2 editing too?

Cuz i would love to get back my garms flowing, but not get banned

because of it.

PsYch008 · Post by **PsYch008** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:36 pm

this makes me even more suspicious that they are tracking modded clients... good thing i reinstalled sro last night

NuclearSilo · Post by **NuclearSilo** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:39 pm

PsYch008 wrote:this makes me even more suspicious that they are tracking modded clients... good thing i reinstalled sro last night

Are u saying u are using modded client? => botter? :!:

AllEyezOnMe · Post by **AllEyezOnMe** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:41 pm

JinX84 wrote:As much as I have my pk2 file edited myself, I know for a fact that IF you move 1 byte the wrong way, the whole file is corrupted. You won't get banned for using an edited pk2 file. I have my whole music.pk2 replaced with my own songs lol... Not to mention the 100+ other edits (and some are quite large). Also I find it funny that you can replace iSRO's data.pk2 with ksro's and still run it just fine without joymax knowing shit... Kinda funny since there is close to a 400mb difference in filesize

Just trying to clear some things up.

-JinX

I've done it multiple times and have changed a "byte" on it without it messing up.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:41 pm

the client isn't modded...just the files...lol. Well, media file to be exact =p.

And sunaj in your client when you load it up for the first time, go to options select graphics to not change, that will let you get the wind effect back, no problem.

AllEyezOnMe · Post by **AllEyezOnMe** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:43 pm

NuclearSilo wrote:
PsYch008 wrote:this makes me even more suspicious that they are tracking modded clients... good thing i reinstalled sro last night

Are u saying u are using modded client? => botter?

Are you accusing people for no reason? And botters use same sro_client.exe as you, so ya.....

NuclearSilo · Post by **NuclearSilo** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:00 pm

AllEyezOnMe wrote:
NuclearSilo wrote:
PsYch008 wrote:this makes me even more suspicious that they are tracking modded clients... good thing i reinstalled sro last night

Are u saying u are using modded client? => botter?

Are you accusing people for no reason? And botters use same sro_client.exe as you, so ya.....

Im not accusing anyone, im just translating what he means by reinstalling his sro. Why do u have to reinstall if it's normal?

StealMySoda · Post by **StealMySoda** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:25 pm

I wanted to use pk editing to make a movie

now I cant

AllEyezOnMe · Post by **AllEyezOnMe** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:29 pm

NuclearSilo wrote:
AllEyezOnMe wrote:
NuclearSilo wrote:
PsYch008 wrote:this makes me even more suspicious that they are tracking modded clients... good thing i reinstalled sro last night

Are u saying u are using modded client? => botter?

Are you accusing people for no reason? And botters use same sro_client.exe as you, so ya.....

Im not accusing anyone, im just translating what he means by reinstalling his sro. Why do u have to reinstall if it's normal?

Why would you reinstall SRO if you bot? :roll:

PR0METHEUS · Post by **PR0METHEUS** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:39 pm

Twysta wrote:Yeah zypher is right, sooner or later PK2 Editors will cross a line that joymax can find.

That's what I've been saying this whole time. I'm sure Joymax wouldn't ban someone for making her wolf look like a horse, but some edits could just go too far. Technically ANY edit of the pk2 files is editing their client software and could theoretically result in a ban. Maybe they will start banning for all edits, I don't know, but certainly if you go too far, it will be noticed and they would be justified in banning the person for it.

Jay wrote:the client isn't modded...just the files...lol. Well, media file to be exact =p.

Well I would say that ALL files included in the silkroad folder are part of the client, because without those files, sro_client.exe wouldn't run. Sro_client.exe in and of itself isn't the client simply because it is named "client".... it is just the client executable file.

If you change something in a data file, you are changing the way the client operates and are therefore changing the client.

Fracture · Post by **Fracture** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:48 pm

First off, whoever said JM can't use Checksum for integrity checks on file systems, you are an idiot. Redundancy checks are in almost every sophisticated file system, and even the most complicated Checksum systems use hash integrity checks, which puts little to no stress on any system. Also, these checks are usually performed during installation, uninstallation, and updates.

Secondly, to get the 'Windy Effect', load up Silkroad, and at the load screen do the following:

- Click Options
- Leave your settings, but under Quality, scroll right, and choose 'No Change'
- Confirm this change, and start the game

Remember, if you make any changes in-game, you will have to redo these steps.

NuclearSilo · Post by **NuclearSilo** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:06 pm

Fracture wrote:Remember, if you make any changes in-game, you will have to redo these steps.

If u set Read-only attribute for file SROptionSet.dat, u dont need to redo these step if u made in-game changes