RELEASE: The Babylon Project DVD v1.0

[hip63]

The Babylon Project DVD

Community Created Freeware Space Combat Simulator

Based on the Babylon 5 Universe created by J. Michael Straczynski using the FreeSpace Open-Source Engine.

Release Date: Sept 6, 2008



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The Babylon Project DVD is compilation of the The Babylon Project v3.4b FINAL, The Babylon Project User-Made Campaign Pack v2.0 and other Babylon Project related materials and Bonus Items.

The DVD contains the complete game, nothing else is required.

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TBP DVD FEATURES:

The Babylon Project v3.4b Core (FINAL) - Everything you need to get started playing and building your own missions and campaigns. Includes two campaigns, the Earth-Minbari War Demo and Raider Wars.

The Babylon Project User-Made Campaign Pack v2.0 - Contains 15 additional excellent User-Made Campaigns and Mission Sets as well as Multiplayer Mission Updates. All are the latest versions at the time of release.

Advanced installer for TBP v3.4b Final and Campaign Pack v2.0. The Advanced Installer features full installation customizing and maintance options and well as theme music and slide show during install.

Highly Customized DVD Menu with full motion Intro Video, interactive ReadMe and Extras Menus with authentic B5 Music, Sounds and TBP Graphics. Also includes links to Babylon 5 and TBP related websites.

Printable Custom TBP DVD Label Art for the Disc and your choice of DVD or Jewel case layouts. Includes Generic JPG Images and Nero Cover Designer Templates.

TBP Movie Collection - Five TBP Related Videos and Teasers.

FreeSpace Development Extraction Tools. Useful tools the would-be modders.

DirectX 9.0c and OpenAL is included.

Additional Microsoft Voices - Mary, Mike and the hard to find Anna (the best one).

Gaming Hardware profiles for Saitek X52 HOTAS Joystick and Game Commander 2 Voice Command Software.

PLUS Bouns Desktop Items to pimp out you PC desktop in true Babylon 5 Style!

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WATCH THE TRAILERS:

The Babylon Project Intro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FiTYFyn7w4

Earth Minibar War Campaign:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exOIyDx3NfA

Lots and Lots of Explosions!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJmclKWmp6Q

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VIEW THE SCREENSHOTS:

http://babylon.hard-light.net/gallery.php


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DOWNLOAD LINKS:
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 MULTI-FILE DOWNLOAD LINKS (provided by hip63): ---19 Files, approx. 1.8 gigabytes total size---

Mirror 1 MediaFire.com:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=038e1fa8310fdd82ab1eab3e9fa335caad3ef9c8c20414b9

Mirror 2 RapidShare.com:
http://rapidshare.com/users/17985U

Mirror 3 FileFront.com:
http://hosted.filefront.com/hip63/2293503

(Please Note: All the files in the mirrors list above are exactly the same.
So if you start having issue downloading from one mirror, you can the get remaining files from another mirror.)

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ALTERNATE DOWNLOAD LINKS (provided by FUBAR-BDHR): ---2 Files, approx. 1.8 gigabytes total size---

Mirror 1 FileFront.com:
Part 1:  http://files.filefront.com/TBP+DVD+v1+0part1rar/;11737777;/fileinfo.html
Part 2:  http://files.filefront.com/TBP+DVD+v1+0part2rar/;11720370;/fileinfo.html

Mirror 2 MegaUpload.com:
Part 1:  http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J8IPVQ9E
Part 2:  http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QQSMGKI9

Mirror 3 ModDB.com:
Part 1:  http://www.moddb.com/downloads/the-babylon-project-dvd-10-part-1
Part 2:  http://www.moddb.com/downloads/the-babylon-project-dvd-10-part-2

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FULL DVD DOWNLOAD LINK (provided by FUBAR-BDHR): ---1 File, approx. 1.8 gigabytes total size---

Mirror 1 Download.com:
http://www.download.com/The-Babylon-Project-DVD/3000-7557_4-10882882.html?tag=mncol&cdlPid=10887642

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TORRENT LINK (provided by Zacam): ---4 Files, approx. 1.85 gigabytes total size---
http://www.demonoid.com/files/download/HTTP/1610641/1727794

TORRENT INFO LINK:
http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1610641/1727794/

(After your torrent finishes, please help us out by seeding for at least a day or two, sharing is caring!)

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The .rar files can be unpacked with WinRAR (shareware) available at www.rarlabs.com or 7-Zip (freeware) available at www.7-zip.org

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DVD Release Notes:

The Babylon Project DVD is in an ISO format. The ISO Format is a Disc Image containing the data to be written to disc.

Nearly all CD/DVD Burning software support burning the ISO format to disc. It is a common format.

However if you are confused on how to burn an ISO to disc,
I suggest using the "BurnAware Free" (freeware, contains no crap-ware) available at
http://www.burnaware.com/burnaware_free.html

Alternately, you can also mount the ISO in a virtual drive.
You can download a Virtual Drive Program called "Virtual CloneDrive"
(freeware, contains no crap-ware) available at
http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

Finally, if you would prefer to extract the data from the ISO to a folder your hard drive,
you can use ISOBuster (shareware, unlimited demo) available at
http://www.isobuster.com/

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Minimum System Requirements:

Pentium 3 600 MHz or AMD equivalent
256 MB RAM
Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista (compatible with 64-bit)
DirectX compatible 3D hardware accelerator card with HT&L Support
DirectX compatible 16-bit or higher sound card
2 gigbytes hard drive space (2.9 gigbytes with Campaign Pack installed)
Joystick or GamePad Recommended
DirectX 8.1 or higher
OpenAL 1.1 or higher

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For Multiplayer Support, go here:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,52243.0.html

For Multiplayer Times, go here:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,52290.0.html

For Linux and Mac Support, go here:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,40036.0.html

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The Babylon Project Campaign Pack v2.0 Information:

TBP Campaign Pack v2.0 superceeds and includes everything from Campaign Pack v1.0

The Babylon Project Campaign Pack has 15 included Campaigns and Mission Sets:

Achen Flight School................................by Vidmaster
Dark Children.........................................by Vidmaster
Earth Alliance Training............................by madaboutgames
Earth Brakiri War....................................by madaboutgames
Fortune Hunters - 2259..........................by Vidmaster
Fortune Hunters - 2260..........................by Vidmaster
Infestation..............................................by madaboutgames
Operations.............................................by Vidmaster
Survivor..................................................by madaboutgames
Drums of War: Part 1.............................by 0rph3u5
Drums of War: Part 2.............................by 0rph3u5
The Black Hand: Episode 1.....................by 0rph3u5
Awakening the Beast Demo...................by 0rph3u5
Star Fury Pilot Single Missions................by madaboutgames
Misc Single Missions................................by Various Authors

PLUS:
Multiplayer Missions Updates

PLEASE NOTE: The Babylon Project User-Made Campaign Pack is unsupported by TBP Dev Team.

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Special thanks to everyone involved in making The Babylon Project and the DVD a reality!

Enjoy!

hip63

[hip63]

For Questions and/or Comments regarding The Babylon Project DVD, please go to this thread:

 http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,56247.0.html

If you are posting mirror links for download, please post here

KNOWN ISSUE #1: On the ReadMe Menu, If  you click the Print Button,
it will launcher the installer instead of printing the ReadMe.
There are 2 ways to work around this:
1 - Simply click the Browser Button and print the readme from your browser.
2 - Browse the root of the DVD and open the readme.txt file and print from notepad.

KNOWN ISSUE #2: In the DVD ReadMe infomation refers to Campaign Pack v1.1
THIS IS INCORRECT!
The actual Version Number for the Campaign Pack included on the DVD is v2.0

hip63

[Zacam]

Torrent Available:
http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1610641/1727794/

For those without a registration or that do not want to register for a demonoid acct:
http://www.demonoid.com/files/download/HTTP/1610641/1727794

Note: According to Demonoid, it may take up to 30 minutes from this post for all tracker/seed info to be available.

[hip63]

ADDITIONAL TORRENT LINKS:

Huggybaby has expanded the torrent base:

http://www.sumotorrent.com/en/details_1667226.html
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4386398
http://www.bitenova.nl/tt/imim8

Seeders should add these trackers:

http://inferno.demonoid.com:3394/announce
http://tpb.tracker.thepiratebay.org:80/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://trackeri.rarbg.com:80/announce

hip63

[Zacam]

I have updated my original seed with those additional trackers.

[Jimmythecannon]

Wait, wait. I spent over an hour downloading the file at the "Full DVD Download Link", and when I unzip it, I get a damaged readme and a disc image? Why do I need to burn this to a DVD to install it, and where are the install files?

EDIT: D'oh. This is what I get for not reading the entire post. The readme file *is* damaged, though.

[The E]

You don't need to burn it. Just use your preferred Archiver to extract all the files from the ISO, and execute the Installer. Or use Daemon Tools et al to mount that Image.

[aqqman]

Is it up to date?
I downloaded it installed and #^$@#^%@*$%@$  after couple of hours spent on doing a lot of strange settings in the launcher and reading this forum...
why this game is so buggy :/
neither d3d or opengl works for me -> comp hangs or game just quits and everytime i have some fragments of textures floating in space( lol wtf?) .
Forced software rendering works only (not bad thx to coreduo cpu), but no primary weapon beams (its invisible) buggy model of ship Rising Star in one of the missions prevents to accomplish the goal - there was a thread about but solution has beed removed (deleted attachment)
Launcher has a lot of options but it seems like half of it doesnt work at all and debug exe is producing errors like 'too many ship clases' or something.
Comon people...game looks very nice but....bugs everywhere
My drivers are fine, a lot of d3d or opengl games works on it - except this one.
I was wondering maybe i should paste some logs etc ...but later maybe i'm confused and tired

[The E]

If you have run a debug build, please post the fs2_open.log from the data folder here.
You should also get Zathras, which includes updated executables and a ton of bugfixes.

[aqqman]

Hi
I've installed zathras, there is some change, Rising Star problem seems to be fixed i did notice also fps drop.
Thats how my hud looks like:


In software mode seems to be ok except lack of visible weapon shots and fps drops sometimes below 5.
But still a lot of warnings in debug mode.

 fs2_open.log attached and debug messages from the clipboard

Thanks for any advice

[attachment deleted by Tolwyn]

[FUBAR-BDHR]

  OpenGL Vendor     : S3 Graphics, Incorporated
  OpenGL Renderer   : VIA Chrome9 HC IGP
  OpenGL Version    : 1.4 20.09.01q

That is most likely your problem right there.  Unless you can find newer drivers for that video card you are most likely out of luck.  OpenGL 1.4 is bare minimum for FS2_Open and Direct3D isn't supported anymore. 

Also not that it matters in this case but you didn't actually enable Zathras in the launcher.  Really doubt that will help though but you never know. 

[aqqman]

I did enable zathras in the launcher too, after this screenshot has been made, no changes.
To be honest I was afraid you could refer to my graphic card.
Well ... no chance to get another driver, theres only few versions, and the only 1 i guess which works good enought to play games.
Q3A, ET, CS ,JK  and few other ogl games working just fine but like you said... I'm most likely out of luck in this case.

[ttw2]

I have a question how can you add missions with FRED (.vp files) to the DVD version?

[The E]

New single missions (file extension: .fs2) need to be in <TBP directory>\data\missions.

New vp files can usually be placed directly into the TBP directory.

[ttw2]

hi since i instalklled the DVD there is a Data file but i cant insert any data into it because its a Cabinet file(dont know if i used the right word)Its a fs2 file and not vp sry so i need to insert it into the data but thats not possible

[The E]

Ah, so you want to insert it directly into the DVD install files? That is more complicated. Also, why would you want to do that?

[ttw2]

I only want that the mission which i did with FRED works

[The E]

Then you don't have to put it on the DVD. Just put it into <Directory where TBP is installed>\data\missions

[LucaBrazi]

This game is awesome! Now I'm going to ver. 2.

[General Battuta]

Are you a spambot?