Monster Hunter Frontier Z - Server

Server Emulator for the Online Game Monster Hunter Frontier Z.
Please read through the whole file before asking questions.

Table of contents

• Disclaimer
• Notice
• Setup
  • Visual Studio
  • VS Code
  • IntelliJ Rider
• Hosts
• Sever
• Client
  • Unpacking
  • GameGuard
  • Bugs
• Guidelines
• Attribution
  • Contributers
  • 3rd Parties and Libraries

Disclaimer

The project is intended for educational purpose only.

Notice

This server requires that you own a copy of the game and assets. These assets are not included in this repository to comply with copyrights. In order to run this server you are required to provide a wwww folder. At the moment no alternative as been developed, as soon as this happened this repository will be updated.

Setup

1) Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/sebastian-heinz/mhf-server.git

2) Install .Net Core 3.0 SDK or later

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download

3) Use your IDE of choice:

3.1) Visual Studio

Notice:

Minimum version of "Visual Studio 2019 v16.3" or later.

Open Project:

Open the MonsterHunterFrontierZ.sln-file

3.2) VS Code

Download IDE: https://code.visualstudio.com/download
C# Plugin: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.csharp

Open Project:

Open the Project Folder:
\mhf-server

3.3) IntelliJ Rider

https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/

Open Project:

Open the MonsterHunterFrontierZ.sln-file

4) Debug the Project

Run the Mhf.Cli-Project

Hosts

Add following entries to your hosts file to force the client to connect to the local instance.

127.0.0.1 cog-members.mhf-z.jp        # MHF Launcher       (web)
127.0.0.1 capcom-onlinegames.jp       # MHF Authentication (web)
127.0.0.1 www.capcom-onlinegames.jp   # MHF Authentication (web)
127.0.0.1 sign-mhf.capcom-networks.jp # MHF Authentication (auth/server)
127.0.0.1 srv-mhf.capcom-networks.jp  # MHF ServerList     (web) 
127.0.0.1 l0.mhf-g.jp                 # MHF File Checksum  (web) 
127.0.0.1 u0.mhf-g.jp                 # MHF File Host      (web) 

Server

With default configuration the server will listen on following ports:

80 - http/launcher gui
433 - https/authentication
53312 - tcp/authentication
53310 - tcp/lobby

ensure that no other local services run on these.request

Client

Following modifications are recommended when trying to use this server:

Unpacking

mhf.exe, mhl.dll, mhfo.dll and mhfo-hd.dll are protected with AsProtect. A tool called AsDecom can unpack these files, but it must run on WindowsXP.

GameGuard

To disable GameGuard please delete or rename gameguard.des-file. Additionally in mhl.dll the following byte need to be patched 000053C3:74->77

Bugs

mhl.dll-file contains a bug when performing HTTP requests.

00356352                    48 54 54 50 2F 31 2E 31 0A 43        HTTP/1.1.C
00356368  61 63 68 65 2D 43 6F 6E 74 72 6F 6C 3A 20 6E 6F  ache-Control: no
00356384  2D 63 61 63 68 65 0A                             -cache.

It only uses a single LF 0x0A whereas the spec requires CR LF 0x0D 0x0A In order to obtain enough bytes we can change cache-control-header to Expires-headers like so:

Offset(d) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15

00356352                    48 54 54 50 2F 31 2E 31 0D 0A        HTTP/1.1..
00356368  45 78 70 69 72 65 73 3A 20 30 0D 0A              Expires: 0..

without this patch the C# web server will not process the request, and maybe other servers as well.

Guidelines

Git

Workflow

The work on this project should happen via feature-branches

Feature branches (or sometimes called topic branches) are used to develop new features for the upcoming or a distant future release. When starting development of a feature, the target release in which this feature will be incorporated may well be unknown at that point. The essence of a feature branch is that it exists as long as the feature is in development, but will eventually be merged back into develop (to definitely add the new feature to the upcoming release) or discarded (in case of a disappointing experiment).

1. Create a new feature/feature-name or fix/bug-fix-name branch from master
2. Push all your changes to that branch
3. Create a Pull Request to merge that branch into master

Best Practise

• Do not use Console.WriteLine etc, use the specially designed logger.
• Own the Code: extract solutions, discard libraries.
• Annotate functions with documentation comments (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/language-specification/documentation-comments).

C# Coding Standards and Naming Conventions

Attribution

Contributors

• Nothilvien @sebastian-heinz

3rd Parties and Libraries

• System.Data.SQLite (https://system.data.sqlite.org/)
• MySqlConnector (https://www.nuget.org/packages/MySqlConnector)
• bcrypt.net (https://github.com/BcryptNet/bcrypt.net)
• AspNetCore (https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore)
• .NET Standard (https://github.com/dotnet/standard)
• Arrowgene.Services (https://github.com/Arrowgene/Arrowgene.Services)
• CRC32 Implementation by Damien Guard (https://github.com/damieng/DamienGKit/blob/master/CSharp/DamienG.Library/Security/Cryptography/Crc32.cs)