My Steelport emulator

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Hey , Thanks for the Mod, I Downloaded it , and changed the hosts file , but the game does not connect to the emulator , i even tried running the emulator as admin but still the game freezes for 1 or 2 seconds when the menu is loaded but no "Connected to My Steelport Emulator, Login with any user name and password" is shown at the bottom , it scrolls the regular test at the bottom and the community option still doesn't work and says the servers are offline , do you know anyway to fix this? my steam is installed on drive E but my SR3 game is installed in C , can this be the problem?
I have BW Meter running and it has a firewall system , i even closed that and turned off my vpn and did everything from the start , still no Luck.

Edit: ok although no one answered , i found out that the emulator works fine , my laptop was the one to blame , so i used my work laptop to get achievements and the emulator worked fine for both games
 
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[LGT]BartoszGaming said:
I use My Steelport Emulator. For some reason, I got something. Here's how it looked:
Code: 
My Steelport Emulator 1.1
https://www.saintsrowmods.com/forum/threads/my-steelport-emulator.17361

Ready for connections.
Saved new screenshot. ID 8061721299800801869
Saved new screenshot. ID -5158932185490720138
Received an alert: CloseNotify

Can someone explain what is that Received an alert thing? And also that CloseNotify thing?
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It means you closed the game lol
 
I run into an issue. Running MySteelportEmulator.exe results in the following:

Unhandled Exception: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException : Access to the software channel in violation of access permissions
at the following location: System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoBind(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress)
at the following location: System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Bind(EndPoint localEP)
at the following location: SaintsRowAPI.ConnectionListener..ctor()
at the following location: SaintsRowAPI.ConsoleHost.Program.Main(String[] args)

This happens with both v1.0 AND v1.1. I also tried to compile it from source just to see what happens, but I have no idea how to do it. It's a bit different from what I learn in school...
MySteelportEmulator.PNG
 
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Minimaul said:
Hey everyone,

I've been promising myself I would do something about this for a while, so this is sorely overdue:

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Here's a program you can run locally on your PC that pretends to be the My Steelport server!

This makes character upload/download work locally with the character .bin files fetched by my saintsrow.com My Steelport character download tool.

You can also use this to move characters between SRTT and SRIV.

You can share your characters here: https://www.saintsrowmods.com/forum/forums/share-your-character.97/

HOW TO GET STARTED
  1. First off, you need to download the MySteelportEmulator file from this post. Extract it somewhere (it doesn't matter where).
  2. Open Notepad as an administrator (press start, type 'notepad', right click and 'Run as administrator')
  3. Hit 'File', then 'Open'. Open the following file (you can copy paste): "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts"

    It might not show up unless you change from Text Documents to All files at the bottom right of the window.
  4. If there's a line in this file that already says "sr3.hydra.agoragames.com in it", delete that whole line.
  5. Add the following to the bottom:
    Code: 
    127.0.0.1        sr3.hydra.agoragames.com
    It should now look like this:
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  6. Save and quit.
  7. If you have any existing character files, drop them in the characters folder. If you used my character download tool, you'll have some zip files. Extract those, and copy the .bin files from the characters folder you just extracted into the characters folder for the My Steelport emulator.

    Character files created by the download tool are named things like 126189321730800313.bin
  8. Now start the MySteelportEmulator.exe that you extracted earlier. It'll pop up a window like this:
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  9. Start Saints Row The Third or Saints Row IV.
  10. Wait a bit at the main menu. You should see the ticker at the bottom change and look like this:
    View attachment 21889 View attachment 21890
    As long as that happens, you can go ahead and use the My Steelport features as normal!
    When you're prompted to log in, just use any username and password. Whatever you enter will be treated as if it's correct. You don't need to create an account, and the game will already think your Steam account is linked.
  11. When you're done, just hit the X at the top right of the window to close the emulator.
Notes:
  • When you 'upload' a new character, the emulator will create a new file in the characters folder. This file will be called something like 126189321730800313.sr_character. There will also be a matching .jpg file with the screenshot the game takes automatically.
  • When you upload a new character, it will be called 'Character Name'. You used to rename these on the My Steelport website. To rename characters now, use the included CharacterRenamer.exe tool.
  • When you 'download' a character, the emulator will show the game the first 20 files it finds in the characters folder. This is a limit in the games itself. If you have more than 20, they won't all show. Move some out of the way to see more.
  • You can share your character files. Just upload them to a post here and they should work for anyone who downloads them.
  • If you use the in-game camera features to upload a screenshot, it'll appear in the screenshots folder.
  • This works with items from the Steam Workshop too (but obviously, only in SRIV). You need to have the items installed first, or your character will be naked.
  • Do NOT put the profile.bin file from the zip files into the characters folder. If you do, the emulator will crash.
  • I really recommend installing the Saints Row: The Third clothing pack on SRIV. It will mean that you have less issues with characters with missing clothes. (shameless self-promotion!)
  • Why is this only local and not an online service?
    The original My Steelport service used steam credentials to authenticate a PC user. We can't validate these without being a Steamworks partner (and we'd need access to some information that only Volition have). So we can't securely link Steam accounts :(
    (Plus, the My Steelport login box in game has stupid restrictions on what can be in a password...)
GOG versions

The GOG versions of SRTT and SRIV have the community features partially disabled (they removed the menu items, and the game thinks it's constantly running in offline mode).

To re-enable this for SRTT, download the SRTT GOG My Steelport enabler (attached to this post). Make sure you don't download the source code. Put all of the files it contains in your GOG SRTT folder - the same directory as SaintsRowTheThird.exe and SaintsRowTheThird_DX11.exe. It will 'fix' the game thinking it's offline, and it will try to connect to community features. The character download/upload options work after that. You can check to see if it's working by waiting and seeing if the ticker changes.

PLEASE NOTE: this only works with the DX11 version of Saints Row: The Third! It will crash or break horribly on the DX9 version. This will hopefully be fixed soon.

For the GOG version of SRIV, it is sadly not possible to re-enable the My Steelport support. Whoever did the port for GOG removed enough of the community systems internally that they can no longer function at all. (but left in some fun ways to break the store screen as a result!)

Source code is available at: https://github.com/saintsrowmods/MySteelportEmulator

Changes
  • 1.1: Added support for the SRTT Initiation Station and the SRIV Inauguration Station.
  • 1.0: Initial release
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Hey @Minimaul
I tried using it but the emulator instantly crashes whenever I try to launch it with the error message "Unhandled Exception: System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly 'SaintsRowAPI, version 1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest. at SaintsRowAPI.ConsoleHost.Program.Main(String[ ] args)"
If anyone has any solutions or ideas I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks
 
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