Maplestory Myths - know any?

I just did some research on how others had programmed the CRand32__Random() method. It turns out that the random method is a proprietary one, and the seeds in the random method are dependent upon all random events in the game. Every time some CRand32 method is called the seeds are changed. It would be impossible to isolate any given event as being due to a bad PRNG because each random method cannot be tested individually from the perspective of a user on Maplestory Global. You would have to test it on a PServer to know for sure. The Random() method has no known period and no currently discovered biases.

Interesting. Thanks for the update. I wonder how these anomalies occur then. Maybe we'll never know.

It irks me a bit that their PRNG is a proprietary implementation as that can be subject to programmer error and poor implementations, but there's not much I can do about it.

It's Nexon. Should we really be expecting more?

Killing a monster while it is being knocked back into the edge of the screen causes it to drop nothing. (prevalent in PQs)

As Fiel has said, this was actually reality back in Beta days. I can confirm this. I've failed many-a-Kerning PQ because people didn't listen to me back then. Then long after it was fixed, after people had finally been convinced it was a legitimate bug, people then decided that it was never fixed and would squeal at you when you killed something at the edge of the map...even after the bug was long gone.

I'm actually kinda surprised it's still around...that was one of the first obvious bugs, fixed long ago.