Shaded Legend - 15th Year Anniversary of the Graal PC client Server
 

On 03/16/2001 my amazing team (most notable James205) and I released Shaded Legend. I was the Project Manager and vision of this project but how far it came had so much more to do with all the amazing volunteer folks who worked on Shaded Legend on and off throughout the 13 years it was on client (2001-2013). I merely set the foundation then moved on to work for Graal as a brand about 3 months after I released the server. Having most of the of the sparring community come over and support me left me speechless.

So many ideas that Graal now uses across many servers came from the creativity and sheer hard work of countless peoples commitment, dedication, and belief of Shaded Legend. Although this server is no more a part of Graal it will forever live on in my and many others memories as one of their favorite servers of all time. For me, mainly the community/people were my motivation because otherwise I would have had no drive to want to help keep it alive.

I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of the people who volunteered giving up their precious and valuable time to help me develop what seemed a simple idea at the time. Also I really can't express in words how thankful I am to the the players who stayed loyal with Shaded Legend through the tough times when we had to convert ALL level and GS scripts over to make the server remain playable. So many brilliant minds helped to make that happen.

Now without releasing TOO much information publicly I want to announce James205 and have future projects in the pipeline!

In the meantime, I'll see you guys on iclassic. Remember, hugs not thugs people! <3 xoxo

No problem. I'm expecting to be paid in cash. You said $9,000,000?

Hope your game works out tego and james

:drool::drool:

No pictures to show those who didn't know about the server? (me) :(

i wonder how many clips james205 has in his folder. prob million of raw footages.

me too. i wanna see the pics.

I can upload old screenshots, I have so many... it's not even funny

shaded legend added and removed from classic tab more often than colin deletes threads )))

Hopefully, whatever you're doing has nothing to do with the PC client.

SL was the first playerworld I really played as a home, I was way too young at the time to be significant though. I changed my name every other week and was mostly a PK-laming newbie that went by names like "Illuzion" and "3RR0R", had a statue in Sky's house as the latter name.

I remember the whole layout of the playerworld really well for how long ago it was. Rusty's house and spar being one level left of OSL, this strange house with lava inside of it that serves no other purpose being one level right of it. I think above that house was the KOTH event house? The events house itself was the top-right house in OSL and the manager's statue was always to the left of it, I believe with a warp ring. Northwest of OSL was some cyan-tiled castle-type thing where you could get horses, the first few days I played SL I would literally pause at 0.5 while on a horse because I hadn't figured out where the hell to get them yet.

I remember people like Gafgarion, Biggi, Tommes, hrr4, Alma, Blau Blau, The Wizard, Myzterie, TtTackler, benpoke103, ArchAngel, Alucard, Fei, Kinhad, etc. It was a pretty good playerworld overall, everything you needed was within one level of each other. Everyone would PK at OSL, the spar was one level left, and the events house was right in OSL. It had pretty good exploring, like south of OSL there was some command you could type that would create a bridge and let you explore this little island further east. There were also a bunch of caves with secret entrances that you could open with bombs, they were fun to find.

I don't remember when SL changed, I imagine it was like 2005 or 2006, but when it took some RPGish approach it pretty much turned to crap. Then again, all of Graal was turning to crap at that point.

SL honestly kind of stayed the same, there was a point when MysticHaste tried to introduce SL2 which was removed quickly because it was bad but the old OG SL was brought back. We made sure to never really try to make it some RPG wannabe server,

We did have plans to expand way more outside of the main map but we always took the heavy development as realistic as we possible could (lots of playerworlds would have unrealistic expectations and release hype stuff wayyy to early only to have it die instantly).

But you're pretty much dead on. There was a point when it tried to change a lot but it was always reverted back to how it used to be.

SL had a crazy loyal fanbase and community, I looked at the old forums (i have backups) and it's crazy how much work/how many people were involved.

Was only removed a couple times, I came back to save it over and over but there was a point when it became pointless with how PC graal was basically dying.

see you in e3

If you were going to anounce something to be released eventualy you should have posted in the delterian sub forum

Get hyped for a new server

https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cart...su0082_low.jpg

Ugh...

Hey fellas. I was a NAT on your server back in the day.

!!!! :love::love:

Hrr4

You're crazy if you think I would be part of making a graal server.

you guys are old

dAYUM break out the crock pot for that roast

not a roast cuz crono noob never played SL

That was a joke since I'm always calling pc players fossils, dinosaurs, or some variation of old.


I would hope that nobody is still developing new servers for graal.



I still have hopes that team iClassic will open their eyes and start their own thing too. I'm pretty sure the 4 horsemen can make a server/game on another platform from scratch that would beat anything these current iservers have.

Ya, man. Looks at them in their mid to late twenties. Old ****s.

Idk why some of u keep bring about their age. They are pretty successful in both game and life and I know u are gonna be with us after 10 years too. The only difference is you have a tendency to hide and fake ur identity and appear as another 12 yr old online.

IKR? These fossils were playing graal before 90% of these burger joint noobs were born. Old ****s.


What part of it was a joke did you miss?



lol :D


Do you know them personally? How are you so sure?



Did you figure that all by yourself genius? :\:D



The one person I like on this forum knows who I am in-game. He knows some of my irl personal stuff that I share with him and other members of HK. I don't need to fake or hide my identity because it is irrelevant to the forum who I am.

12 years old, been playing graal since 2010, so I started playing graal when I was 7 :'(:\

One last thing, it would be pretty embarrassing to the graal community if a lot of you dorks got trolled/owned by a 12 year old don't you think?

i played like 3 different releases of it!!

1. Didnt even read ur og or img post
2. It all adds up from all the in game chat + other thread james, clops and contego are involved around. one of real chat from mixed room 'id rather be 12 than 30 yr old playing this game'
3. im not sure about Contego but James def working and making $$s
4. u r not doing a good job as a troll lately. U dont make any wild moves
5. I wouldnt be surprised if i see some of u with me in 2026.
Yo u 30 yet? Nono im still 15

I don't think he's trying to offend so not offended. But thank you Zetectic <3 SL's White Knight.

Position already taken by LoakeyRonso.

<3 Loakey, worked with him from 05-07 on SL. Very committed guy and had a good heart, miss him. =(

omg another name :( y u guys triggering me

LoakeyRonso was a whiny SJW who didn't know how to type.

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I like that image. Are those the official grail Forums? :rolleyes: They should be.

Graal Reborn. I got him to negative rep.