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Open my 059client, go in game, open Options, go to Other options and turn on Exalt mode.
The current one is missing multiple crucial effects related to the fight - the red circle + lightning bolt that land signify there'll be an aoe explosion there. So you can do the fight but it is a decent bit harder. I just posted a new client here that has all the missing effects added. Took quite some time to figure it out.
Also, the only thing preventing you from connecting to o3 itself is the same thing that prevents you from using Bard on the flash client. Turn on my Exalt mode setting in Other Options and the client will use exalt's packet structure and allow you to play on Bard. The packet differences aren't much, there's a special string in the Hello packet called ClientToken that gets changed, there's some extra data in some trade packet, there's a few extra packets themselves (one that relays your char/list xml from the server), a queue one, and one that gets sent when you use a vault/char slot unlocker that tells you which type of unlocker you used (makes no fucking sense but that's par for deca's course). There's probably more but those are the only ones I remember/know.
As for the assets, I was surprised to find 100% of the assets in the flash client the same as the ones in the exalt client. I was expecting to have to extract xmls and sprites. So that part was easier than I expected.