Yeah, no harm in asking. You just don't quite understand how the client versions work. Even if you only own classic EQ with no expansions, if you connect to Live, they patch your client fully to Live. Except you don't get all of the new zones. It is the same exact client as the live client. So, if you have an old version of the game and connect to live at all, it will no longer be the old version, it will be live. You won't be able to see the original UI, and you will have updated zone textures, and updated spell effects, sounds, and so on.
To be able to use an older client than Titanium, we would need a good number of packet collects, or at least 1 packet collect for even the most basic functionality. Those collects are something we don't have, especially from 2002 or earlier. They just don't exist. It means it would be nearly impossible to get those old clients working well enough to be playable, if you could even get them to be able to log into the game. The only thing I could think of would be if we had a copy of the hackersquest source code from 2001/2002ish, it might help. But, hackersquests was not actually playable when I tried it, you could just log in and see some NPCs (mostly frozen naked humans) and not much else. If we had packet collects from them that they collected when making hackersquest, that would probably be enough for basic functionality. Their website is long gone and I doubt anyone could ever get in touch with the creator. Even if that was possible, we would probably have to rewrite all of the net code for handling the connection to the older clients, which would be a ton of work.
Basically, I am saying that it will probably never happen. If it was possible, I am sure the P99 people would be using it.
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