The battle to play Borderlands Online continues, as dedicated archivists ask for help in pursuit of the long lost MMO

The Borderlands Online archival saga continues, with the small group of individuals hoping to get the sport playable placing out a call-to-action for these with coding expertise (particularly with software program like DNSpy and Unity Ripper) with the intention to break by the sport’s character choice display.

Beforehand, we lined YouTuber, sport designer, and dataminer EpicNNG managing to get to the game’s class selection screen, but it surely appears he and his small workforce engaged on the archival undertaking have hit a brick wall. Not when it comes to talent, however when it comes to time. They’ve a model of the sport at their finger suggestions, they simply want extra fingers to get the construct working. He states: “No 1: We all know that we’ve the total sport, we’ve confirmed we’ve the total sport. Quantity 2: We all know that we are able to get in ultimately, it’s only a matter of when.”

On this call-to-action, a prolonged video detailing the journey thus far, EpicNNG confirmed the perilous process as his small workforce went by outdated Chinese language Borderlands On-line web sites within the seek for a option to really play the sport. Doing so, they discovered ghost hyperlinks and viruses, so it is price emphasising right here that it’s best to solely actually assist out with this effort if you recognize what you are doing.

The video is roofed in statements making it clear that that is purely for archival functions, and that he nor his workforce need to infringe on 2K’s intelectual property as to keep away from the potential for a stop and desist. Nevertheless, it is made equally clear that this undertaking could also be nearing a useless finish because of the discharge of Borderlands 4 and the potential actions of 2K’s authorized workforce, except it will get extra folks on board to assist. It is price noting that this text was solely written following an change of DMs with EpicNNG, through which he acknowledged that he understood the potential dangers of this call-to-action being additional publicised and was pleased with it being lined nonetheless.

Within the video, EpicNNG acknowledges that point is of the essence right here, pointing to Activision’s take down of the H2M Call of Duty mod in fears it could suck consideration away from the subsequent Name of Responsibility. The concern is that, except the workforce will get the sport working quickly, 2K would worry an identical factor with Borderlands 4 and ship out a Stop and Desist.

This archival undertaking, if profitable, could be considerably of a white whale for the online game archival scene. Not solely is archiving any sport troublesome, Borderlands On-line is a Chinese language-only MMORPG that has been useless for years. Getting it working is an admirable purpose. Here is hoping that people that may assist see it and help earlier than it is too late. Although, when you’re a greenthumb relating to Unity or online game software program generally, perhaps it is best to depart it with the consultants and need them luck.