Back to playing Ragnarok Online once again

I never thought that i’m going to play this game once again, previously i have already quit playing this game since December 2003 (official server), and back playing Ragnarok in 2005 (private server) for about a month or so .. and now .. because i got bored, i decided to play this game once again (on private server of course and the only server i have found so far is AnimaRO because the old RO Private server i used to play – Aero2 – already down) but this time instead of playing ragnarok immediately, i have to download tons of updates / patches from the official korean ragnarok ftp server because my ragnarok installation is already out dated (i’m using the old Sakray before September 27 2005)

Yesterday i have finished downloading all sakray update files since 09–27–2005 and at the moment, and i thought by simply downloading the sakray update i can play instanly on various RO private server .. but .. it seems i havent had much luck because by updating the sakray data only, i can not even access the main interface of ro client (it says that shadow.act and shadow.spr is missing) and by doing simple trick to fool this game by creating dummy file named shadow.act and shadow.spr i was finally be able to get pass that message. But ..

There’s another error message saying that cursors.act and cursors.spr can’t be found .. and i tried doing the same trick again. And i can get pass that message .. unfortunately this time i get another error message that looks like a korean language in ascii mode because my system lack the language file for korean language :P .. and i’m sure that even if i can get pass this error message, there will be another cryptic error message appear on my desktop .. :(

I guess .. the only way for me to do it is just by updating each file manually .. and i hope i can play it without problem if i have updated my kRO installation but if it’s not working, then i guess i have to give up playing this game because there’s no way i can download the full installation of kRO

as a side note, just in case you’re looking for the kRO FTP server. It can be found at ftp://ragnarok.nefficient.co.kr/pub/ragnarok/ (random ftp server)

but if it’s for me i choose to download from this IP address of the kro ftp server : 221.139.3.74 because it is the fastest for me