Emulator (Ragnarok Online)
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Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....
(MMORPG) Ragnarok Online
Ragnarok Online
Ragnarok Online , often referred to as RO, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game or MMORPG created by GRAVITY Co., Ltd. based on the manhwa Ragnarok by Lee Myung-jin. It was first released in South Korea on 31 August 2002 for Microsoft Windows and has since been released in many other...
is a server emulation
Server emulator
Server emulator, a term that is widely used to describe reimplementation of MMORPG game servers, typically clones proprietary commercial software by a third party. The term "private server" is also used while it may not be accurate as often the legitimate server is also privately owned...
software which mimics the functionality of the official Ragnarok Online server software Aegis
AEGIS (Ragnarok Online)
AEGIS is Windows Server software used along with Microsoft SQL Server by Gravity Corporation to run the official Ragnarok Online game servers. It was originally developed for exclusive use within Gravity and Gravity subsidiaries, but has been leaked within its lifetime, purportedly by several teams...
and is used to create private server
Private server
Private server is a server machine that is privately owned by individual. As servers need adequate internet connection, power and are also noisy, they are often allocated in the colocation centre. Some centers also offer rack space for the single machine for $99 per month or about...
s. Examples of these software project
Software project management
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s include Athena (also known as jAthena), eAthena
EAthena (software)
eAthena, short for English Athena, is a cross-platform, open-source game server software for the popular MMORPG Ragnarok Online. It is an emulation of the Aegis software created by Gravity Co., Ltd. that powers the official Ragnarok Online servers, and is used to run private servers...
, Freya, Aurora
Aurora (software)
Aurora was an open-source cross-platform Ragnarok Online emulator software project that started in late 2006 but was discontinued in early 2008 due to lack of community enthusiasm, though it is still freely available online and is fully functional for use...
, Weiss, Helios, and Aliter.