Habbo Retro

A Habbo Retro (also known as a Habbo Hotel Emulator) is an illegally run hotel that is not run with permission from Sulake Coperation.
Habbo Retro's usually offer free credits, free Habbo Club, and such things that Sulake receive money for on official Habbo Hotels.

Some teens that have nothing better to do create emulators, u
sually when they have been 'banned' from Habbo, or when they are not happy with the providers of their hotel.

Servers
Such servers as HabLog, DebboProject and Holograph Emulator are currently being advertised on RAGEzone, the MMORPG development forum.

There are also smaller groups that create web pages that run along with the database, such as the HabboCMS system for the users of DebboProject.

DebboProject

There have been works on the DebboProject until it failed in V4 as a SQL database, however it works ok, but it was still in the BETA version.
HabboCMS was created so that owners of the Debbo V4 could create a small website to use. It used the Debbo database and allowed users to login, register, enter the hotel, and more.
It looked the same as the new Habbo Hotel layout, but it lacked some features of the Habbo Homes, Groups, and such things like this.

HabLog

HabLog was a good sturdy server that is often used by individuals as it covers many needed features such as the SSO login. However, it uses a TextFile database, which isn't as fast as a MySQL database, so that hosted server could slow down.

Holograph Emulator

This server is still being debugged and created. It is an Open Source project, so that anyone can edit it. It inc operates lots of features, while retaining a sturdy structure for a hotel.
It, such as Debbo V4, uses an SQL database, and again, it uses a CMS system like HabboCMS for the owners to create a website. HoloCMS is still currently under construction.

Hacks

Lots of retro hotels use their logs of when you log into the hotels and atempt to log in to real habbo hotels with the username and password used on the retro hotel. If you too belive that retro hotels are wrong support the the 100% habbo scheme.

Illegal
Habbo Hotel Emulators are illegal, as per this letter that is on the Habbo Hotel development forum in RAGEzone.

Dear Mark,

thank you for your letter.

We cannot tolerate retros as they violate international copyright laws.
Habbo hotel is protected by copyright laws which means that only Sulake
Corporation can create or operate Habbo Hotels.
Sulake is a large company that employs 300 people full-time worldwide
who are all paid a salary to create and maintain Habbo Hotels. Retros
are simply nothing but theft.

Kind Regards,
Isa Kautto
Sulake Corportion"

Because of copyrights, Sulake has legal permission to shut-down these emulators or take legal action for those who refuse.

== Sulake Takes Legal Action! ==
Sulake will take legal action against all emulators, as these servers stop Sulake Coperation from making money, aswell as the owners of the emulators breaking the copyright law.

Here's a story that is not related to this, but Sulake took legal action against a teen player on an official hotel.

There have been reports that Dutch police have arrested a seventeen-year-old Habbo Hotel player for the crime of hacking and steeling almost $6000 worth of virtual furniture from other habbo's of Habbo Hotel.
An Amsterdam police spokeswoman confirmed a report that the teenager was accused of stealing 4,000 euros (2,844 pounds) [$5857 US] worth of virtual furniture by hacking into the accounts of other users.
Four other 15-year-olds have also been questioned in the case, which was instigated by Sulake.
They are suspected of moving the stolen furniture into their own online hotel rooms after hacking it from vulnerable habbo goers.

Current Official Hotels
The Habbo service is currently running over 31 hotels in lots of different countries. Please visit the official Habbo Hotel article for the hotels listed in order.

Habbo: A History
Back in the year of 1999, two finnish men called Sampo Karjalainen and Aapo Kyrölä got together to start on a project for the band 'Mobiles'.
The thought was a great success, and the two men started to begin programming Hotel Goldfish.
The name was later replaced with the name Habbo Hotel, which then got launched Finland in August, 2000.
The project was later released to the UK in 2001 with the domain www.habbohotel.com in use, which is now the current USA one.
The old 'Hobba' service has currently been scrapped, and now there are just moderators who protect. 'Hobbas' had access to HobbaNet, where they could remotely ban users from the hotel.

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