Welcome to the OpenRS2 Archive
++ The OpenRS2 Archive is a collection of caches and XTEA keys + for all versions of RuneScape that use JS5 to manage assets + (mainline RuneScape builds 402 and greater, and all builds + of Old School RuneScape). +
+
+ The archive uses content-addressable storage, converting
+ caches to the client's native
+ .dat2
/.idx
format on-demand. This
+ provides several benefits: the disk space required to store
+ all available caches is reduced, and groups or XTEA keys
+ missing from one copy of the cache can be sourced
+ automatically from other copies - provided the checksums and
+ version numbers match.
+
+ The archive is highly automated: OSRS cache updates are + downloaded automatically (with RuneScape 3 support + planned), and XTEA keys are pulled from various sources and + verified automatically. However, third-party contributions + must be imported manually to verify the data's provenance + (see the "Contributing" section below). +
++ Support for archiving clients/gamepacks, loaders and native + libraries is also planned for a future update. +
+Sources
++ A significant amount of data in the archive was, or is, + obtained from the following projects, which we'd like + to thank: +
+-
+
- Displee's archive +
- Greg's archive +
- OpenOSRS +
- Polar's archive + + + + +
- RuneArchive +
- RuneLite +
- RuneStar +
Contributing
++ Please contact Graham#5361 in + OpenRS2's Discord server + if you have data (old clients/gamepacks, loaders, native + libraries, caches and XTEA keys - ideally original or + only lightly modified copies) to contribute. +
++ Contributing data is important even if the cache or + keyset already exists in the archive. Older copies of + the cache are often incomplete, and your copy may have + data missing from the archive. +
++ By pooling all the community's data together in a + single location, the whole community will benefit from + access to more complete caches and keysets. +
+Mirroring
+
+ An rsync server is available at
+ rsync://archive.openrs2.org/pub
. Daily
+ Postgres dumps are available in the db
+ subdirectory in the custom dump format.
+
+ A public-facing Postgres instance, for complex queries + and replication, may be made available in the future. +
++ The + software + used to import and export data is open-source. Combined + with the database dumps, this ensures the longevity of + the archive if the main instance ever disappears. +
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