Packet Logs

[Tony]

People have been asking to see the logs we use for research.
If anyone would like to document anything from these logs, feel free.

If you don't know what these are, or what to do with them, I wont be explaining it. It would take more time to teach than it would be for me to do the research manually (my self). If this isn't for you, don't worry

http://www.smidgeindustriesltd.com/nyuwiki/files/binlogs/

[LateNightBuddha]

Updated links: January 28th 2016 @ 12:48AM Eastern:

Update June 25th 2015 @ 6:09AM Eastern:
-Fixed Gui Scrollbar out of view Issue
-Added extra modes for addressing Hex movement
-Added better support for out of range movement
-Added better external hex editing support
-Added easy menu option to configure hex editor
-Changed general Gui Elements
-Cleaned up code and Gui Elements I forgot to remove
-Faster processing than the original Binlogtool SE
-Changed title bar text it was annoying me
-Added new help option for tips and more
-Removed a useless menu option from parser
-Added Clementine Easter Eggs... Wait What?!

This is a public release of BinLogTool to open and parse those files from above:
https://www.mediafire.com/?avqb0ubb1le2c27




Disclaimer:
I don't plan to update this much but if there is something major that needs to be fixed then I will work on it otherwise the software is AS-IS

Old Post:

Spoiler:

Did you want me to build a public clean version of Binlog Tool Second Edition?

[Tony]

I don't expect anyone to need it, but if you'd like to post it, you can.

[LateNightBuddha]

I don't expect anyone to need it, but if you'd like to post it, you can.

I updated my post from above so people can download the software if needed.

[Carsomyr]

I understand the complexity and I don't expect you to teach me but I am curious I would love a quick and dirty explanation on how you take the information in the packet logs and turn it into usable code, or maybe some useful links with information... I'd love to get involved in a project like this but even if I cannot make something usable for clementine, i'd still like something just to expand my knowledge

[Ricewind]

These packet logs were recorded over a reasonable time once.

It's kind of translating from another language I guess. You can see what the client sends and the stuff that the client accepts. You then need to figure out what these values mean. At the server side (which you need to program yourself from scratch), you need to process the incoming data and send a processed packet back to the client.

An example for this could be:
>Player opens shop
>Client requests item list from server
>Server collects item list for the according shop and sends it to the client (<Program this yourself)
>Client reads packet from server and uses it to display a shop and it's items.


I'm not currently working on this server and the above information is based on my own speculation and knowledge of programming.

[Gnome]

Check our wiki, we've documented quite a bit on how alot of these packets work, what they are and their ugly bits.

To get started on something simple, you could check the patch server's section.
http://psu-clementine.net/wiki/doku.php?id=networkprotocol:patch_us:0100

As can be seen on that page, it details what each part is and does, about turning that into usable code, that'd be more down to you of figuring out a way of doing so as we're not open source (yet? maybe?, I don't know).
That packet is sent to the Client as soon as a connection is established, we'll call this the hello packet for now.
I even went to the effort of taking this lovely screenshot, which shows both the 0x0100 packet, as well as the 0x1400 packet that the client instantly responses with
http://psu-clementine.net/wiki/doku.php?id=networkprotocol:patch_us:1400



They're documented exactly how we're sending them (usually).

As for sending them, you could look into some tutorials on how to use WinSock.
http://johnnie.jerrata.com/winsocktutorial/
http://www.tenouk.com/Winsock/Winsock2example.html
http://www.binarytides.com/winsock-socket-programming-tutorial/
http://www.madwizard.org/programming/tutorials/netcpp/

I'm not sure on how good the above are, but I'm sure it'll help somewhat.

[Eidolon]

I can't thank y'all enough for releasing these and opening up the wiki! Really awesome work, and the wiki is well organized. I will see to building some analysis and development tools when my PSOBB server implementation is closer to feature complete, eventually.