How many people here have ever heard of the Star Wars MMO already in existence?

Well the current version of the game is pretty much crap, the original version released at launch was extremely amazing. However early in the games history the people at SOE, the developer, messed the whole game up with a patch called the Combat Upgrade, or CU for short.

However for the last couple years a small group of dedicated fans have been working on remaking the code from the original game!!! best of all its free!!!!! and not illegal!

In order to play the game you must own the original disks, however you can also torrent the game online. EDIT heres your torrent link for all those that need it

The SWGemu website has an installation walkthrough in the forum section of the site.

You also have to make a username on the site and thats ur log in information once you begin playing the game.

I think it would be a great idea if everyone got involved and began playing, if for no other reason than its extremly star warsy and fun for messing around, Rping ect.

this i awesome but can you post the torrant. That would be great

man thats great, i keep hearing it was an awsome game before some kind of patch (what did that patch did anyway ?)

it would be nice to try i guess

I have updated the original post with the torrent link.

As far as the patch, to be honest it just changed it slightly but was very controversial. The UI was updated, which wasn't bad, the problem was the players loved the game as it was and against their will (and mine) SOE changed it, losing many fans. Those that stayed and played the CU were forced to go through another devastating patch called NGE, or new game enhancements. This made the game almost identical to WoW and got rid of all the customization the original game had. Crafters enjoyed how in the original you had to work to become a great weaponsmith, even after you mastered.

sounds good, SWGemu its called ? just how well made is it ? cause ive tried private servers for mmo in the past and they were ridden with bugs and shit

As of right now the people working on it have not worked out all the code and it isn't a finished game, as such there is a few bugs and stuff they need to work out. A few professions haven't been fixed, as such you can't even play as those yet. When its finished though, I don't think it will be laggy or very buggy then, I think the people working on it are doing an amazing job. However completion is a ways off...

then playing isint worth that much then ? i mean its more frustrating than anything playing a really buggy game...

The game will be completed before christmas, so while it may be a bit incomplete and laggy now, I've been playing around with it so when it is finished I have become reacquainted with the controls and gameplay mechanics

will this work on mac?

theres a mac guide on there forums somewhere, I'll find it and post it later in the original post, I g2g to a baby shower now

I can't be bothered downloading torrents right now, I have too much study to do.

seriously, we might have found the answers to our gaming night, ive heard a lot of good thing about pre-patch SWG (only shit about post-patch tho )

id love to try it honeslty, ustain said that it might be 100% up by chritmas i think ?

edit : i cracked, ill do the necessary to try it and ill post about it here, sry in advance if that makes a double post or some shit

edit2 : your torrent dosent work, for me at least, it opens up limewire for the download and then that lime bitch say its searching for users with that file...help i wanna try it

edit3 : ok i tried many torrent and none work, i suspect the problem is limewire, someone has a similar program to suggest ? one better than that shit i have ?

edit4 : this is almost becoming a blog, ustain, pls keep looking at it, ill post my various unlucky shot at it. i just uninstall limewire (ive always wanted to replace it) but it seems like all the SWG torrents are limewire torrents, but when i used limewire it never worked wtf)

I use a program called Bitcomet for all my torrent needs, you may want to try that phyrex.
I just tried to torrent now and it brought up Bitcomet and started downloading so it works.

oh sweet sirax, thanks, since i saw that monster handler job in SWG ive wanted to try it

thanks a lot, i hope it'll work, its been a while now that i wanted to get rid of limewire, damn shit wasent doing any good

thanks again

edit : sry to say that ustain but apparently that link is only the patches, i followed the instructions you gave and the launchpad dosent find the game, its actually only the patch