sup guys Recently I've been wanting really hard to try Jewelry Master... Not going very well so far, as you can imagine. lol All the downloads of the original PC game are gone AFAIK, and even if I could get a copy, from what I've seen there's an online account system in the game in order to play it, and the servers are almost certainly down. I haven't found a single PC clone, either. There are also two games for the Xbox 360, JMT and JMT Light, but they both were on Xbox Live Indie Games which has been shut down by Microsoft and it's now impossible to buy the games, even if I somehow managed to get a 360... Are there any other options? Is this game really RIP forever?
yeah.. server is dead. i still have the client, and can no longer log in. oh well. The basic rules are pretty simple. it's the randomizer and the exact scoring rules that are a pain to work out.
gee, it would really be a shame if someone made a memery master server emulator Even tho it's very hard with the server permanently down
Surely the requirement to contact the server can be patched out. As far as I know, it did little more than provide leaderboard functionality?
Yeah, I'm looking into the game code. I don't have much time because of work but from what I've seen so far it's definitely doable. Just login and leaderboard. To be honest, I'd rather ship a server emulator than a patch for the binary, but we'll see.
You'll have it eventually... I don't have a lot of time to work on projects, but I'm working on it. For now it'll save scores locally but I may host a server in the future as well
funny thing is i was actually ahead of Mihara at one time on one of the difficulties. i think it was easy, but it may have been normal.
haha nice! btw progress update: I have implemented all features in the server except for the hardest one, for which I have to disassemble the game and read the code. So this is what I'm trying to do, but with 4 daily hours of commute to work I don't have much time. I try my hardest on weekends but I still haven't figured out what data this game wants for the leaderboard... I think I'm somewhat close to finishing it, with some luck
Don't worry guys, I haven't forgot. It's just that debugging is so hard, this leaderboard thing is taking me WAY longer than I thought. I'll give you the basic server that lets you login and play and does NOT save score. I'll make a separate release thread for when all the features are ready. This is the Windows build: https://tetrus.gq/jmservemu.rar (the source will be released when it's finished) Run it, should say it's waiting for the game. Remember to redirect hg.arika.co.jp to 127.0.0.1 using this in your hosts file: Code: 127.0.0.1 hg.arika.co.jp You should be able to login... (also, reminder that this game has fullwidth text, so you have to use NTLEAS or AppLocale to display it correctly) -------------------------------------------------------------- 1/jun/2018 EDIT: This project is looking bad, so bad. After debugging for months I haven't been able to understand the leaderboard format. At this point the chances to go to Arika HQ and ask them for the server source are looking better than reverse engineering the game exe. I'm not declaring this project dead because I know there's a possibility I'll learn how to reverse engineer properly. What I'm just saying is, expect to not hear any news for a year or more - dead serious
