Oof, this is a huge blow to our work.
I knew that if armor replacements were going to become popular, Daum would finally step in to put the nail in the coffin.
Case in point, Vindictus (Mabinogi Heroes). I think for some time that nude mods were fine, but when people figured out you could replace armor and underwears, which is the cash cow for Nexon, they obviously stepped in and made it harder to use mods without getting banned.
I understand that the KR and NA/EU versions has patched out the nude mod, can anyone confirm for other regions?
From here on out, I know of only two aces in the hole:
- Develop a custom client that ignores errors. I have no idea how you would do this, but if you want to be the genius, the idea is there.
- Find a way to repack PAZ files. As far as I know, Pearl Abyss has not changed their schema in repacking files. Re-encrypting the files again would require all users to redownload the client files. Now, I know currently QuickBMS is able to unpack files, and also has the ability to repack some other game's files. What's wrong here is that QuickBMS doesn't know how to re-encrypt given a decryption. Another problem is I'm not sure how PA checks the validity of a PAZ file, if a checksum needs to be met or not. This is probably the easier route, and maybe we could ask the good folks at Xentax and Zenhax to help us.
Now, if anyone has any ideas, don't be afraid to speak up! You guys are bright, doing research on the files more than I have ever contributed. I feel bad for not being able to help all of the time.
Hopefully, through hard work, we can get our nude mods and our armor swap mods back to the people who need them :)