EQEmu
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EQEmulator (or EQEmu) is a GNU GPL open source server emulator for the MMORPG EverQuest. Normally, the game is a service that players pay for so they can connect to Sony Online Entertainment's exclusive servers. With an emulator like EQEmu, anyone can run a server. EQEmu has apparently been in development since around 2001 or 2002. According to statistics on the EQEmu website, emulated servers see dozens of players online, quite below the tens of thousands seen on SOE's official servers.
EQEmu is full of bugs and is poorly maintained, although it is free, the difference between the live servers and the EQEmu severs is so drastic that those looking for an "alternate live" will be sorely disappointed.
Currently EQEmu is not up to date with the current live client, some servers, although against the "rules" of EQEmu, release their own versions of the EverQuest patcher, distributing client versions that are compatible with their servers.
The current working version requires the pre-12/21/04 client, well over 5 months old.
EQEmu Community
The EQEmu community is full of several amateur programmers and gaming enthusiasts, they release several tools to aid in the creation of a server, however the developers of the actual server do not support the tools in any way, and as a result many tools have gone out of date due to lack of interest by their developers.
EthernalQuest
Another EverQuest emulator is EthernalQuest, which is believed to have been in development since late 1999 or early 2000, however it does not seem to be supported anymore.
External links
- EQEmulator.net (http://www.eqemulator.net)
- EQEmulator project at SourceForge.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/eqemulator/)