2004Scape localhost RSPS (225) on Linux with Desktop Launcher (easy updates, save backup)
9https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/servers:games:2004scape_localhost
These are my notes on how to deploy 2004Scape-Server, upstream code, and ran with the latest tools on Fedora Workstation 40 (and likely other distros). All easy-to-read and understand, while also being usable on most distros with Bash (I'm interested to hear results!) This is not repack: my notes give you the convenience of setting it up proper, ease of maintaining it over-time, and easy to run and move data anywhere!
This is more old-school than Old School RuneScape :p (225, May 18, 2004) Free and open-source code, high-quality and rapid development, and self-hostable! This is "the" ultimate solo self-found, no bot-influence, experience! This can be "your" OS-OSRS server, no latency, all hosted on your machine, with character data under your control (roll it back in-case of a T-bow time-warping, hack it up, have 20 accounts, whatever you want). I've been waiting for a project like 2004Scape for RuneScape for years! Solo is just the beginning: you can script and dev your own content, run and make your own bots, design bosses, simulate economies, or just stick to PvE solo :p that's the freedom and power of FOSS, and 2004Scape is the best RSPS project I've seen to embrace this! I'm very interested to see more RSPS projects embrace FOSS for high-quality development like WoW servers with TrinityCore and CMaNGOS (I started back in the Antrix and Ascent days :p)
Are you curious what RuneScape was like without all the modern quality-of-life? You're in for a treat the first time you use a stove :p I'm soloing all the content possible, no cheating, all vanilla, and I challenge anyone else to give it a go too! I have a progress photo album here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1020728566088031
I also have set-up notes for Windows (it's easy): https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/windows;servers;games;2004scape_localhost
If you aren't interested in hosting your own 2004Scape server, I encourage you to play on their official server! https://2004scape.org/
2004Scape is free and open-source software, and I encourage you to post any issues encountered to https://github.com/2004Scape/Server/issues to help improve it! I also encourage you to read their Mission Statement https://github.com/2004Scape and here's their Discord https://discord.2004scape.org/ This project is no-joke: they've converted the official Java applet to run in modern browsers with HTML5 (video is with Firefox 128), and re-created the original May/June 2004 RuneScape website! https://2004scape.org/ It'll be big news when they go into open Beta in the near-future https://2004scape.org/news
Feature Complete List (see what works/doesn't work currently): https://github.com/2004scape/Server/wiki/Feature-Complete-Progress
Also check out the rest of my notes on my wiki! 200+ detailed pages of real-world, no-nonsense tweaks Windows and Linux, advanced configs, and the best-practices when it comes to self-hosting and security on bare-metal! No containers, no cookbooks, no mega-scripts! All 100% free: https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/
I've also done a similar set-up for World of Warcraft WotLK/3.3.5 also with a fancy 🤌 desktop launcher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGKXIY-33z8 Self-host all the things!