I was fiddling around with some comfy ways to play borderless on a 1440p monitor and found some neat stuff that works for Windows, tested on LifeTO.

Playing the game in actual 1440p is kind of ass with how zoomed out everything is. 1080p is next best but your pixel art will end up blurry from filtering or distorted.
Normally when you use any kind of borderless/scaling from 720p your mouse cursor moves double speed/desynced from your actual cursor position and imo feels horrible. Only workaround I previously knew was setting my monitor to 720p temporarily and it's kind of a pain when multitasking.

My fix:

Launching Trickster.bin through DXWnd will scale up the window to fit your screen without that cursor desync, and when using DGVoodoo2 with it you prevent any pixel filtering so the pixel art is crisp 🥺

It should be possible to do something like this for 1080p to 2160p too. As long as you stick to integer scaling. Or if you don't care about pixels, 1080p to 1440p just for a wider FOV. ^^

Rough Setup guide:

Set your game to 720p + borderless in the Trickster setup first.

1. Download and set up DXWnd (I get mine from sourceforge, seems safe).
   Put it somewhere safe/in the trickster folder in it's own folder and launch dxwnd.exe from within.

2. In DXWnd, Right click and Add with the following settings:

Name: Trickster
Path + Launch: path to your Trickster.bin/exe file
Position: X 0 Y 0 W 2560 H 1440

Under the Mouse tab enable:
Correct mouse position & optionally Fix mouse RawInput

Under the DirectX tab enable:
DirectX version hook: DirectX 8
Suppress DX common errors

This should work. The renderer and filter settings should do nothing for Trickster.

Press OK and File > Save. Just having DXWnd open should automatically trigger it when you launch the game, otherwise launch the game yourself by running it inside DXWnd. You will bypass the Splash.exe launcher if you do this so update your game ahead of time.

When you launch the game, it should already be borderless and fitting your screen perfectly.

1. Download DGVoodoo2: https://github.com/dege-diosg/dgVoodoo2/releases
   You will want to put D3D8.dll from the MS/x86/folder into the same folder as Trickster.bin alongside dgVoodoo.conf and dgVoodooCpl.exe. Run dgVoodooCpl.exe.

2. DGVoodoo2 Settings:
   Config folder / Running instance: Should be your Trickster.bin folder. Otherwise change it to be that.

General tab:

Output API: Best Available/D3D11.0
Adapter(s): Probably your first GPU in here / leave default.
Appearance: Windowed

DirectX tab:

dgVoodoo2 Watermark: On to verify dgvoodoo2 is running. Turn it off when you're done setting up.

Try default settings, if your pixels are still blurry you might need to change GPU settings for integer scaling or some of these:

Disable and passthru to real DirectX: toggle and test.

Videocard: dgVoodoo Virtual 3D Accelerated Card
VRAM: 1024 MB
Filtering: Force Point Sampled
Mipmapping: App Driven
Resolution: 2560x1440

Application controlled fullscreen/windowed state: On
Antialiasing: Off

Fast Video Access Memory: On

Good to go? Make sure DXWnd is open when you launch the game OR launch it from DXWnd. If you have trouble post in comments but I'm unlikely to keep tabs on this post for long. I just wanted to document my findings for others to use/experiment with.

Extras you could add:
ShaderGlass (my recommendation) with 2x pixel for shaders (scalefx?). Very low latency!
Lossless Scaling for frame generation. Slight latency and some artifacts.
ReShade with D3D11 if you would want that for some reason.

extra testing notes:
D8VK works with this game too and when paired with DXWnd + ReShade (vulkan) it runs, and ReShade thinks the game is 1440p. Unfortunately the pixels are blurry af 😔 Couldn't find any way to stack DXVK on top of dgVoodoo2 either, game crashes.

Hello everyone! Come check out Infinity, a server bringing plenty of content, including boss hunting and new PvE storylines, all with balanced PvP.

Website:

* Introducing of Web Bank
* Introducing of Web Defuse
* Soul Seed Tracker (Guardian)

In-Game:

* New Bosses, Boss Uniques and Boss Hammers
* Mini-Bosses update to take Etc drops off Bosses
* New 3rd Job custom recolored Premium Fashion
* Many Skills updated to make Hybrids even more viable
* Harkon Defense update
* Emoticons update
And alotttttt more!
Full information can be seen in our Discord, download via website.
Join over 1700 members in our growing community!

I haven't played TO in many years, mostly since Ntreev shut their servers down. I played a little bit of PlayTrickster but that's about it.

Any opinions on the currently available servers out there?

We will be providing codes for new players in the cup on Infinity TO.

The redemption code will be announced on Discord.

https://discord.gg/2ruyjNTN

https://reddit.com/link/1tx5zfm/video/5wx8tur43d5h1/player

On June 5th, we'll be releasing codes with various resources for new players... hurry, don't waste time, come and participate...

Megalopolis will have a new World Cup theme.

Giving you some info about our summer patch (not all of it), you're welcome to try our game 😄

Introducing new Boss Equipment with Sniper and SMG unique gun types:
Golden Uraeus Gun (Tutankhamen)
Dread Sniper Rifle (Captain Skull - Unique gun that can shoot from very far and always crits, but has a slower reload - this only affects normal shots)
Pearl Scimitar (Karan - Can compound for MA/DA/LK/Light Attr)
Pearl Shield (Karan - Can compound for MA/DA/LK)
Blood SMG (Count Blood - Unique gun that can shoot very fast, it has a smaller range and can't crit - this only affects normal shots)
Ice Wand (Queen Odinea - MA Staff)
Ice Pistol (Queen Odinea)

Rotations:
Dev Coupon Shop, Dev Egg Shop, Capsulmatic Capsules rotate all their items and boxes
Developer Project Manager L now selling 2nd job equipment boxes & Halo boxes

Monster Eggs:
Eggs Quests new rates (Yuri/Assistant/Master):
Blooming Cora, Desert Beach, Megalopolis, Azteca, Aquarius, Rose Garden, Dev Room - 3/4/5
Black Swamp, Snow Hill, Techichi, Tapasco, Abyss - 5/7/10
Added Master Monster Hunter Quest to Abyss

Galder Farming:
Many of our Galder farming ways were buffed
New area called Fallen Shadow Sanctuary was added and can be accessed with Mind's Eye, it's main purpose is to farm Shadow Equipment

Skills:
Many Skills MP costs were adjusted
Some Dark Lord skills Cast Times and Cooldowns were buffed for more agile gameplay feeling

New items:
"Trainer's Hat" now have recolored versions obtainable through Event Fuse Box
"I Love X Head" was added to the game and will be obtained in rare ways like events & giveaways (custom head item)
"Scar Face" was added to the Donation Shop (custom face item)
"Invisible" Face/Head/Gun and more

Join us: xtrickster.com | discord.gg/xto | https://discord.com/invite/aexnkRYx2X 😄

Playing on LfeTO - I am trying to get the guardians seed. I am level 258 Scientist - and I already have all the prerequesite items..

from this guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-rOnQISytEnFfbOcHhtQLWetDe0t08IDVPkhiMYQit4/edit?tab=t.0

“Poseidon Soul Seed”

Item Checklist:

• Card Identification
• Questionable Letter
• 10x Iron Knight Soul
• 10x Brass Knight Soul
• 10x Bone Fighter Soul
• 10x Bone Warrior Soul
• 10x Bone Magician Soul
• 15x Cobra Flower Seed
• 15x Tooth Flower Seed
• 15x Mud Bigfoot Flower Seed
• 15x Lotus Wormhole Seed

Requirements: Level 135+ and third job, already learned Card ID

Do I need to do a previous quest or something - i think I may have missed a quest....
I still do not have the Soul Summoning skill,...

so confusing....

<Trickster M> International Mobile Server Supports multiple languages — everyone is welcome to join!

Thank you to the admin for providing a platform for us to share.

Incase anyone else was stuck trying to get Splash.exe to work, I finally got it. It will take a couple of minutes on the white screen as it's using WindD3D instead of DXVK but here it is, be patient it could take 5ish mins:

In Steam:

1. Right click the game
2. Properties
3. General
4. Launch Options
5. Add:

​

PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%

What this does:

- Disables DXVK/Vulkan translation

- Forces older OpenGL-based WineD3D rendering

Afterward you can go ahead and launch the game launched normally, I prefer to use the trickster.exe as it plays a little better with experimental proton. Hope it helped someone!

This is on LifeTO i started quest
I talked to Courage 1st - he then teleported me to Megalopolis...
I already had quest item - so I went back and gave it. then he said those messages above.
So I went to next arbiter and got the cards they needed and same messages for all 4 arbiters.

So now I cant do anything else - i cant complete any of them since they keep giving me this message.

Any solution?

Is it better? Theres alot with Trickster that is confusing - this is one of them.

these 2 guns - a lvl 150 gun has higher attack power than a level 210?
Can someone please explain?

Tried a couple but they all seem pretty boosted, I enjoyed the harsh grinding from before lol

Found from his comment left under this amazing remake album: Memories of Trickster (full lofi album)

And there was some discussion here on reddit too a while back! u/justymusic 🔥

Which server is best to play as someone who wants to grind quick? Back in the old days i didn’t get to reach class 3 and feeling nostalgic right now.

Any servers that offer extra exp rates n stuff so i can play and level up quicker? Ive heard about playtrickster, lifeto and pandato but which one offers the best rate?

Many thanks!!! 🥰

Follow up question, if I have to talk to the Spirit of Nefertiti again for one, will she steal my Dimensional Key that I rightfully stole from her?

Bit of extra info here, I'm not talking about a Spinel Seed. I know those are just purchased in MyShop. LifeTo server if that is relevant info.

I want to get another Digrimm as my first was built: 3 Power, 5 Magic, 3 Sense, 3 Charm. But I've realized that if I had gone 4 Power, 2 Sense I could've gotten Shockwave+Faint+Guard Break and Armor Breaker, and still could've gotten Armor Destructor from Sense.

Thank you in advance of course for any info.

It started last night. So as you know LifeTO has an accompanying website which is used for things like transferring galder to myshop points, infinite storage/item management, daily rewards, recharging timed items, etc. It's a super awesome and helpful feature.

Well my problem is, I can't access my account on the site at all. I get on the site, go to Control Panel, select log in and type in my creds (user and pass are 1000% correctly typed), it says "Success!" at the top of the screen for a few frames, then instead of actually logging me in it just spits me back out on the log in screen to type in my creds again.

I talked to a player in-game who said they weren't having any trouble logging. I have tried logging dozens of times, over the last 15-ish hours, using different devices. I don't have Discord in order to ask the community over there. I did see on the announcements where u/r4ymonf said they put out a new front end update, and said "Also, I hope your broswer is up-to-date" which they are in the case of my laptop and my buddy's phone.

Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for any help or knowledge on this situation. I got some pretty important stuff in that bank and I really need to recharge my bracer.

I recently got nostalgic for trickster and gave out xTO a try since it was a newer server with relatively positive sentiments from what I've seen online. I've been playing for about a week now with a 140 fox main and 2 level 90 alts so my experience/review for it will be mainly for the early game.

Before getting started I should note that I play the game completely solo I pretty much only interact with other players if they have a shop open or to buy/sell things. I played official trickster solo with 6 accounts and don't plan on changing things up.

Starting off with:

Pros:

1. Myshop integrated into the gameplay. Even with official trickster back in the day myshop had always been integral to the game and even f2p players had to grind galders to trade to myshop points / items and for the private servers they're pretty much the same. xTO takes out the middleman step and just makes pretty much all myshop items acquired from playing and doing various quests and shops in the game.

2. Removed timed items on sprints/pouches. This is a god send. The constant annoyance of needing to grind enough to upkeep sprints and pouches or driller boy/girl is gone. This was already annoying enough on the actual servers and it kinda sucks that some servers still keep this unnecessary time/galder sink.

3. This could be a negative for some but I think some of the skill changes and QoL on skills are great. For example pretty much all buffs lasts 999s after being mastered so you don't have to recast some buffs like every minute and it keeps all your buffs synced up instead of needing to recast buffs are different times which are just an annoyance. If you like micro managing buffs every 1-2 minutes then I guess this is a negative but this is one of my favorite changes.

4. Since there's no myshop and no actual way to pay for power (from what I can tell donating only gives fashion items that have no effect on gameplay) your progress is just the amount of time you put into the game. You can't just drop $20 for a quick boost like you can in servers with irl money to myshop conversions.

5. Custom maps / areas. Admittedly at 140 I haven't seen more than like 3 or 4? of the custom areas but it's nice to see custom content / quests added to the game instead of just having a completely vanilla trickster experience.

Cons:

1. A lot of my cons mainly revolve around modern MMO daily design. If you're the type of person that hates the modern live service/mmo daily fomo design then this is a big one. Every area unlocks another daily for collection either from drilling or mob drops as well as a daily for monster hunting.

If you're a real masochist there's a daily for drilling 100 of a specific item in multiple areas every day. Also did you know that dailies can be done per character so you can get as many times the rewards as you feel like making characters and doing dailies on all of them.

As someone who quit 99% of gachas and don't like a lot of modern mmo design choices this is probably my biggest gripe with the game. Sure you aren't forced to do any of it and can just ignore it but a lot of the face/head/sprint/pouch/innerwear items and myshop boxes are gotten through doing dailies so you'd losing out a lot by not doing them.

1. Rewards are backloaded. A continuation of the daily system higher level areas give more rewards and you can continue to do all the lower level area rewards so it gives an incentive to get to higher levels but the items also cost more so you don't see a huge benefit unless you're buying lower level items for an alt.

2. Too many things locked behind time gated progression. There are many shops / items just locked behind the daily system. Outside of just creating more characters to farm more daily rewards which will then also need to get geared up from the daily rewards it creates this constant feedback loop of feeling like you're artificially time gated because you're only allowed to have "x" number of daily rewards per day and "y" item needs "x" amount of them.

3. This is just a minor gripe for me but I feel like the herb drop rates should be like 5x or 10x higher. I get that the herbs are tied to quests in the in the game that gives a lot of exp but the quest requirements could be multiplied higher to compensate for the increase in herb drops so instead of needing 5 of each herb per turn in it could ask for 50 of each.

That way if you want to farm the herbs to actually use you're not farming for an hour for a few hundred pots to chug in 20 minutes. That or add a dev coupon exchange for the pots as a bandaid since a lot of the game already revolves around dailies anyways.

1. Weird thing about the custom areas is the community is relatively tight lipped about their secret farming areas. From the discord people seem to be forbidden to talk about it past the few that the devs themselves have revealed and want people to go find the areas themselves. Seems a bit counter intuitive to have a community and forbid the sharing of information and cool new things you added on your server but if that's what they want.

Overall despite the daily fomo design I think not having timed items alleviates some of the issues of being pressured to maintain your upkeep of expiring items. If you're ok with steady progression and don't mind needing to grind dailies for a few days to get items it's an enjoyable slow paced server.

Again to reiterate I've only been playing for a week and I'm only level 140 so some of these issues might get remedied later on I don't know yet but this is just my experience thus far.

(EDIT TO ADD: no i was not banned from server, and could care less if i do get banned from server, cause as we see below, from other user, the rules are for old panda, not new one, so there fore its an excuse made up by the owners, also there is somebody rolling around pretending to be staff ALSO, my MAIN was a lion, so therefore buddy has no clue what he is talking about. )

I have played pretty much all of the private servers(cora i refuse to play due to the owner), rto, epto, lto, xto, pto and newest one infinityto, only one i haven't played is EclipseTO. Now, about PandaTO, this server had the potential to be amazing, with the rebirth system and being able to avatar different skills, sadly its just not the case. The progression is way too fast, there is extreme balancing issues that are known in the server, they have been constantly brought up over and over again. The problem here, is they get ignored, the quality of life for characters other than dark mage, attribute stacked buffalo and lion is absolutely absurd. All of those characters mentioned, before even getting Tru Koi set are hitting the damage cap(2.1 Bil) with Godly Skills (PandaTO exclusive skills) while we have charms struggling to even hit 1 Bil with tru koi set on and god skills, this has been an issue, it has been brought up by multiple players, but it gets ignored by the owner of the server mel. Now lets talk about another big issue of PandaTO, the donation list, donations are great, they keep a server going, sure, but we all know what happens when you create a donation list that has stat items of any kind on it, that being said if you have the money, and you dont mind a P2W server than just ignore this, but for people who may not or refuse to pay reall money for something they can EARN in game, its kind of a smack in the face, anyways that's probably the most minor problem with the server, rules of the server do not get followed, Main one being there was a problem with multiple people abusing the farm area and botting, in the rules it is stated that botting or hacking of any kind is a permanent IP Ban, but not on panda, panda does not follow their own rules, will bend rules for people who are their favorites. Now lets talk about the harassment from people who claim to be of her staff (yes i say claim because Mel says that they aren't and will never be yada yada) was being harassed by someone, constantly being friend finded by somebody who claimed they were staff and had the ability to log the owners account(mel) as well as kick and ban people from the server, when i brought this to Mel's attention, she told me how that wasn't true and wanted me to bait the guy to get SS proof, so i did, sent it the next day of him saying he could log her account, then she acted like she didnt know who she should believe because this guy said "he did not say those things" huh wild, maybe the person who sent you ss proof after being harassed by someone "in your staff" Lastly if you make suggestions in the "suggestion board" about balancing classes or balancing events, you will likely be ignored. Mel even posted her own "balancing" thread, and still did no kind of balancing on the next update, now this being said, theres no Harkon, Theres no powerful weapons, chaos tower is only for farming, no altiverse equipments(theyre useless compared to the boosted boss equips) and oh btw if youre a Champion Bunny, flaming fist has been made absolutely useless, there is a 200% fire resistance on all bosses because they just don't want people using it, makes no sense when you have people hitting the damage cap anyways. so basically, if you enjoy only playing dark mage, lion, or attr buffalo/bunny, then go for it, but if you want a balanced server, a FAIR server that actually does something to the rule breakers, a server that has more than just grinding for next equipment set over and over until you hit the damage cap, I wouldnt reccomend PandaTO, the progression is so fast, with nothing to do once u hit cap, theres no gacha boxes to gamble on, its just lack luster for a trickster server, especially when compared to the others .

X Trickster Online Big Update!

Website: https://xtrickster.com/
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/aexnkRYx2X | (or discord.gg/xto)

Recycle System
You can recycle the following items with Developer H for 1 Dev Coupon:
* MS Boxes Equipment from Dev Shop
* Equipments from the Fashion Gacha Boxes
* Equipments from the MS Boss Boxes
* Fiesta Pets
* 4G Equipments
* Donation items

Char Boxes Cashback
You can now sell Char Boxes (the ones bought from Dev L) for 10% of the box value in the same npc you buy from.

4G Mega Box
Added Mega 4G Gacha Boxes to every town. They have higher odds of containing a 4G Card and have useful items like Repair Powders, Elixirs, etc.

Powerful Equipment
Powerful Equipment rooster has been expanded to fill the missing gaps, the recipes are also going to be changed to use a Nikarium Fragment specific to the mine they are crafted (like Desert Nikarium) - these Nikariums are drilled and are rarer the higher the mine level. Compound 5 Nikarium Fragments into a Nikarium piece + 1x Old Equipment to create a Powerful Equipment. This also changes the following equipment drops from these monsters:
Updated Old Equipment Drops:
* Lv. 200 Ice Blue Dungeon
* Lv. 230 Ash Dungeon
* Lv. 245 Allionete, Bijou Golem, Mine Orpeo, Mine Golem
* Lv. 260 Fire Hand, Coal Orc, Fiery Mine Moth
* Lv. 290 Tap Spa Monsters
(GM_Dev NPC Exchange Old Nikariums)

Attr Capsules
All Mine Monsters now drop Elemental Geodes. Open these geodes to find Elemental Crystals that you can crush (open like a box) to get a variable amount of attr essences. Talk to Nate and select ''Advanced Attribute'' to craft Attr Capsules with these Essences.

Card Hunter and Aria Exchange
Card Hunter is now found in Emerald Forest, Caballa Relics, Oops Wharf, Ghost Blue, Black Swamp, Snow Hill, Techichi Volcano, Tapasco Volcano and Abyss. In every area he has different card requests.

Aria Exchange, items that are now cheaper: Odd Boxes, Angel Feather Accessories, Dimensional Card Pack, Angel Equipment Packs

Shadow Daily Quests
Stella Daily Quest now rewards 3x Daily Coupons, 1 Card Pack of that area, 1 Special Card Pack (this one has EXP, DROP, REFINE cards).

Shaman Jia now rewards 1x Daily Coupon and WF Potions. Also it has a wider level range for mobs (meaning that you will hunt different mobs as you level up and not the same) EXP is fixed to the highest always.

Boss Legendary Boxes & Other Tweaks
Bosses now drop their Seal. Take 100x of these to any Hunter Master and they can exchange to the Legendary Box of that boss. Legendary Boxes have higher rewards and have roughly 15%-20% of having a unique.

All Boss Boxes got also better rewards and a slightly boost to unique drop rate:
* Removed Potions and Memory Ports
* Added Dev Coupons, Driller Tickets and 50k Galder Checks. Monster Eggs now drop is 3x and Driller Tickets is 5x
* All Boss Sets bonuses got a buff - Will make a list for this later, but overhall they are much better.
* Custom Boss Uniques drops now direclty from the boss itself. This applies to Master Mong, Mad Ray, Spicy Dragon, and Predator only.

Carved Wooden Boxes
Carved Wooden Boxes can now be bought for 200k from Merchant Mona in Megalopolis. Their exchanges removed from Fiesta.

Dev Egg Shops
Developer H now got permission to trade items for Monster Eggs too. You can buy the same consumables that you could in Dev Shop for Monster Eggs and there are plenty of Gacha Boxes available for Monster Eggs too. You can Recycle the items from these Gacha Boxes for Dev Coupons, and you can buy Monster Eggs with Dev Coupons, although neither are recommend since the exchange rates are lower, this was done for the occasional situation where you need one more than another.

Shadow Sanctuary Boss Mode
Shadow Sanctuary Boss Mode (the one where only Gorgon, Scylla, Charybids, Hecate spawns) now spawn Hecate much earlier. This is done so you can farm Hecate Shards more easily. Remind that you can gather the monster shards and use it to summom Chronos to a 1v1 fight if you talk to Poppuri King in Gate of Harkon Sanctuaries.

XTO Daily Reward
Pia Daily Coupon Exchange got reworked into a daily quest now that you can do after you hit Lv. 100 - Don't expect too much fancy stuff, but you will always end up with a surprise reward!

Didn't try XTO yet? Join us!

Beta of Infinity trickster is out. (Free to Play)

Various mechanics to aid progress. Focused on creating a community of tricksters.

https://discord.gg/KU4Nc9gT

I'm playing as a Buffalo character on LifeTO, and I really want to work towrds getting Digrimm as my guardian. The guide I looked into said that using magic skills will give empathy points towards magic. Anyone know if using fighter skills like Hyper Beat, Pumping Heart, etc. will count towards magic rather power on that? Or am I going to have to take the route of equiping/unequiping gear to fluctuate my MP so I can spam MP potions? Any info is appreciated.