H4rdcorE

1 hour ago, Indrid said:

@H4rdcorE

Who do you plan to play with? Do you have enough friends interested in this particular version of the game? 
Do you understand that most likely no one else will even want to download the game to try it out on their own experience?

There is a small group of people who wants to test it out, my plan was to mod the alpha with retail game with alpha aspects and gameplay to make bf3 what it should have been, for me it's just a hobby to see if it can be done and test and some old personal joy as well

I have some interested people from discord communities given the download amounts for alpha clients i guess there are people who wants to try it out i guess.

It's not really an important thing but it's just nostalgia and what if theories basically

5 hours ago, ZLOFENIX said:

Soooo there is no reason to make emu for beta?

If you have spare time and you up for it then why not

We can still mod beta as well and play around it to see what we can do until we find alpha keys

no that wasn't me
i played both alpha and beta in their time, i still remember loving alpha but disappointed in beta.
alpha had better graphics, gameplay even hitreg  just want to relive those moments and even mod the whole game to that alpha trial maybe
that's why i'm after it

That'll do then until we find alpha keys

We'll start modding the beta and see what we can do until we can find a way to launch alpha

Thank you Fenix, let me know if you need anything

Can we emulate alpha with this ?
Can do with the beta if you up for it, i was mainly after alpha since beta is mainly buggy version of retail.
Thank you for all your help Fenix

That's brilliant!
i have found a beta client as well, i'll leave the links for both alpha's and beta's.
What's the next step ?

BF3 Alpha v749691 (Alpha release) https://mega.nz/#!N4VmkSyY!rC3Ovqw3yS4Ou8ulbwvCBvoqxA72hvS1KARTpJxqwX8
BF3 Alpha v760867 https://mega.nz/#!uYsFSRSA!VsOdVxJFuzKAMulcNI_5moeC2OGNMSW1M0sAiVgLzE8
BF3_OB_862700 Client https://mega.nz/#!ZlsliIoD!YbtHbJC2HzL4gxfFdi6UpXWQ_BYkhi8NC52R6AOPrcY
BF3_OB_Server_RC_836535 + BF3_OB_Server_RC_868283_Docs + pdb's https://mega.nz/#!B8NUnILa!PtAQ7t2AfHtY86vZkYhMWxQm9BHSBf92mKnWb0VLRLE

We found the launch params when we were fiddling with esn launcher, roto had the same idea (website i shared from my last post), i will be able to check my old pc next month there is a high chance that i still have that licence file, hopefully someone from the forum has this file for us to upload

BF3 Alpha v749691 (Alpha release)
https://mega.nz/#!N4VmkSyY!rC3Ovqw3yS4Ou8ulbwvCBvoqxA72hvS1KARTpJxqwX8

BF3 Alpha v760867
https://mega.nz/#!uYsFSRSA!VsOdVxJFuzKAMulcNI_5moeC2OGNMSW1M0sAiVgLzE8

Please keep this post open until next month even if it's inactive, 
Whoever interested in this, ZloFenix needs the licence file for alpha named 71170.dlf (71171.dlf for Beta) located in
C:\ProgramData\Electronic Arts\EA Services\License
If you have friends who have played the alpha back then please ask if they do have either of these files
Many thanks
 

Sorry for bumping this dead horse again but there is an update
I have asked in the forum before regarding BF3 Alpha Trial to be revived and if there is a way to revive it, (https://zlogames.ru/index.php?/topic/9125/&)
Recently one of my friends found out his alpha files and he uploaded them for me with the version of 760867 (2nd and last update for alpha, using old alpha exe a server can be created) I have both the alpha's so i can upload them both.
Sadly we couldn't find the 71170.dlf file but we did find this;
71170?Title=BF3%u0020Alpha%u0020Trial&ProductId=DR:229644500
Would that work ? I will be able to check my old PC in August for this licence file if i can find it.
Many thanks 
@zlofenix

Any luck about this build ? I've asked/looked around a lot but i couldn't find the 71170.dlf or 71171.dlf anywhere.. If we were to modify alpha's parameters to run it like retail bf3 and licence would it work ? Otherwise i don't see any other way to run it without those licence files..

Oh alright i thought origin was making trouble.. Okay i'll keep on digging see if i can find it somewhere

Hopefully someone has it and can send it for us

I mean cracking the .exe to not to need origin or anything like the guys on reloaded or skidrow does. But since this client is intergrated to origin it might be tricky

Anyone who's interested in this project try to find 71170.dlf file (or 71171.dlf for beta) in C:\ProgramData\Electronic Arts\EA Services\License folder so Fenix can boot the game up.

Is there any possibility with a modified .exe @ZLOFENIX ? Do we have to integrate it with origin ?

:/ welp at least we tried.. if someone has that file somewhere then we can make some progress.. i poked around in the net for that file but couldn't find anything useful tbh.. if i come across anything that is useful i'll post it here asap but for now i think this is a dead cause

The PC that i played the alpha might have the files but i can't remember if i formatted it later and it's back at my home country which i'm far away now.. I only have my CD key for both Alpha and Beta if that works? Can't we generate one dlf files for ourselves ? or modify the retail ones at least ?

Sorry for double post but i couldn't edit the last one..
It seems that 71170.dlf or dll file is alpha's origin game number for activation or some sort.. 71171 is the beta and i checked the beta server files see if i could find it but i couldn't.. That dlf or dll file must be located somewhere in programdata/origin folder back in 2011 but we need someone that haven't deleted or formated their pc and played the Alpha back then and that one is a long shot.. We just have to find a way to launch it maybe with modified retail dll or dlf's ? i know it's a long shot but i think that's all we have atm.. :/ i'll keep poking around to see if i can find that file

Where can we find that .dlf file ? Is it origin related or battlelog related ?

If it's origin we need to find old builds back in july 2011 i presume.. I'll check the dedicated server files and see if i can find it

Fingers crossed i'm waiting for good news i'll try to help as much as i can. Wish i knew some programming and coding stuff

If it's possible to emulate alpha on it's own then it's great news and if someone can figure out alpha trial codes and import some awesome stuff from alpha to retail it would be epic in my opinion but first if it's possible if we can re-launch alpha and if possible beta stage and move from there it'll be a good start for the project i guess.. Venice Unleashed tried but their project is dead now and they didn't care about alpha and beta stuff that much.. But a full revival of alpha and beta AND code transfer from these stages to retail (like gun and knife animations, graphics of alpha without that damn blue tint, original alpha/beta/retail versions of caspian border and metro, sound fx's, character views etc.) it would be epic imo

Well alpha and beta stage of a game is for testing purposes so it will be full of bugs. I have played both closed alpha and open beta back in 2011 and in alpha you had "dinosaur soldiers" bug, you can fall through the map if u keep making holes with explosives deep enough, some knife animations are glitchy but that's why they test and fix things in alpha and beta stages. Since the alpha version of bf3 had many differences than retail one i just wanted to make a full comparison with alpha and retail and maybe in the future if we can somehow put the retail maps to alpha trial and play in them in alpha it would be interesting to see..

Beta was between alpha and retail and it was close to what is retail now but it still had some alpha stuff in it. Especially beta caspian border was something big back when closed and open beta was happening. This is just for nostalgia and mechanic demonstration of bf3 what it was and what it is now there's a huge difference in between these stages. So i'm one of those nostalgia gamers who has interest these kinda stuff.

(I have the bf3 alpha client files, Open Beta server files AND Bf4 Alpha server but only servers..these are useless without clients so if anyone has bf3 beta and bf4 alpha and beta i'll be pleased to have them )

well basicly Alpha Trial was the BF3 what everyone was expecting back in 2011. I remember playing it and it was bit better then the retail by some small details and better hitreg (yes believe it or not alpha had better hitreg than retail somehow) Better sound fx, better hitreg, knife animations, LAV on Metro, NO blue tint, you can create holes with explosive stuff etc.
Since it's an Alpha it will be full of bugs but i just wanted to replay it and some other people who played it back then still keep saying that alpha was better than the retail in some aspects. 
Here's the alpha that i recovered in my hdd. It's the very first version (which client exe can fire up a server)

https://mega.nz/#!JpdDkSAR!7OzD9X5wNfPYsKsIrP_0vRgRhemJHIa1N26JMfpfeO4

and here's a usefull website to use these files to fire up and use alpha server. I don't know any server commands to operate but i take it it's the same with retail.
http://mozy.org/bf3/

There were Alpha trials and Beta server files back then (got leaked by a old website named defaced which it's no longer active) but people who had them didn't leak the server files but some other people figured it out how to fire a dedicated server in alpha.
I do however have the BETA server files but not the client.. If also been interested i can share them too. (Just remembered back then when caspian border in the Beta was available but you needed keys to get in to servers. it was buggy as hell but it was really really fun to play in it )

Here's some alpha vs retail stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBUUDFiwEKw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csUeGjUMALk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HdbfVIS14o&t=1s

Heya. I have the old bf3 alpha trial from 2011 and it's the version where you can create your own bf3 alpha server by just adding some side commands to bf3.exe.
What i was wondering can we play it with zloemu with some minor modifications and without any stat tracking (if it's possible with stat tracking). I can provide the alpha files and the necessary codes for it's server stuff.
Main question is (if someone's interested also) can we revive the old Alpha for some nostalgia and better(ish) game ? 
I can provide the files asap if someone is interested
Thanks in advance