Maplestory at custom resolutions

EDIT: On the issue of this possibly being "modding" thread, I was given permission to post this by one of the staff before I created it.





I ran a quick search on one of the registry entries required for this trick, so I'm assuming this hasn't been discussed here before. Another member told me about this last night, so I ended up trying it for myself, and the results were pretty spectacular.

 Originally Posted by DudeWitBow

open regedit head through the folders HKey local machine>software>wow6432node>wizet>maplestory

here is basically where the generic MS data is stored(e.g how your computer knows which is the last logged in characters, which mini map mode your on etc)
2 of the registry files exist, one is soresoltionheight, the other is soresolutionwidth, just double click, change the value from hexidecimal to decimal, enter your resolution, and change back to hexdecimal(it will convert for you). note that the game cannot be fully full resolution of your screen to work. it will fail to work so

Apparently, setting the width and height to your monitor's default resolution causes this to not work correctly. I just received a new 1440p monitor yesterday however, and was able to get the game running at 1920x1080. The maps that I took the screenshots in seem to be relatively unaffected by higher resolutions. This isn't the case for all maps; Henesys, Lith Harbor, and Kerning City all had broken backgrounds. But for the maps that it does work in, its a beautiful thing. It makes me wish that they could rework the entire game to work the way that Ellinia, Sleepywood, and the Free Market did because it was a major improvement when it worked.

UPDATE: The maximum resolution that Maplestory can support is currently 2048*1536. If one of your resolution parameters (either your game width or game height) exceeds this, this method will either glitch or default back to 800*600. To avoid that, be sure to set the game window's width to either 2048 or below, and the games height to 1536 or below.

UPDATE 2: Reported to no longer work. See page 2 of this thread for more details.