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Are they looking at the RuneScape Private server scene? I remember some OSRS servers that provided custom clients from those years. I don't know how accessible some of those are now, but it wouldn't surprise me if you could find those old clients that way.

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There is a project by a RSPS community member to accumulate all caches (https://archive.openrs2.org/) by similarly asking people, pulling from other archives, etc. This is probably the best archive in the rsps scene / I'm sure they are aware of it, there are just caches nobody has.

From the FAQ:

> What about old private servers?

> These didn't focus on keeping a historical archive of all versions of the game; only a handful of old game versions were found from these sources. Everything that was available from private servers has already been saved.

This is true, however, if you reach out to maintainers, you might be surprised to find old files from them.

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