[Charismatic]

Websites I have looked at:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=70582.0   >>>>Leads to a single 2_INF-CORE.vp file, which wxLauncher cant find InfernoAlliance
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,43840.0.html >>>Leads to a mirror of above file. And a Readme, which lists 5 files
http://inferno.hard-light.net/SOL/download1.html >>>>Which leads to all 5 files mentioned in above Readme, but all broken links.

So how do I find and download Inferno Alliance?

[tomimaki]

FreeSpace Files has Inferno Alliance.

[Charismatic]

I do have Inferno Alliance .rar 99 mb
it holds a single VP, 2_INF_CORE.vp
I put that in /games/freespace2/InfernoAlliance
(a new, empty folder i created)

wxLauncher does not detect this as a mod

EDIT: Because I do not pay for winrar, i changed the *.rar to *.7z for Seven Zip, to extract.

[AdmiralRalwood]

I do have Inferno Alliance .rar 99 mb
it holds a single VP, 2_INF_CORE.vp
I put that in /games/freespace2/InfernoAlliance
(a new, empty folder i created)

wxLauncher does not detect this as a mod

That's because it doesn't look for folders; it looks for folders containing mod.ini files.

EDIT: Because I do not pay for winrar, i changed the *.rar to *.7z for Seven Zip, to extract.

7zip can extract .rar files; that's a waste of time (it only worked because 7zip checks file format, not just file extension).

[Charismatic]

Quote 1: Ok so where did I go wrong? And how to I fix?
Quote 2: So i should not use 7z? What should I use to open rar file?

[Nyctaeus]

Everything ever released related to INFA, in one single rar: CLICK. I'm not sure if there is any still complete mirror.

[AdmiralRalwood]

Quote 2: So i should not use 7z? What should I use to open rar file?

...I literally said 7zip can extract .rar files. The waste of time was in renaming it, not in using 7zip.

[Charismatic]

Ok, thanks. Got the files and everything. Only thing is that it does not appear in my MOD list, with wxLauncher.

[krevett62]

I do have Inferno Alliance .rar 99 mb
it holds a single VP, 2_INF_CORE.vp
I put that in /games/freespace2/InfernoAlliance
(a new, empty folder i created)

wxLauncher does not detect this as a mod

That's because it doesn't look for folders; it looks for folders containing mod.ini files.

AdmiralRalwood already answered this question

[tomimaki]

Archives linked by me or Nyctaeus contain mod.ini so... I have no idea how you extract them.

[Charismatic]

I have the MOD.ini.
Launcher does not detect MOD tho.

Freespace2/INFA
The MOD.ini is in the main folder. There is a Data and a Readme folder within /INFA/ as well.

MOD.ini is

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[launcher]
image255x112 = INFA.bmp;
infotext     = Inferno Alliance hybrid release version. Note: Requires Inferno SCP or a 3.6.9+ SCP build;
website      = http://inferno.hard-light.net/SOL/;
forum        = http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/board,20.0.html;

[AdmiralRalwood]

I have the MOD.ini.

Is it named "mod.ini" or "MOD.ini"? wxLauncher may be case-sensitive in this regard. If the latter, rename it so that it's named "mod.ini" (if Windows won't let you, because it doesn't see a meaningful difference between the two, you may need to rename it to something else first).

[Charismatic]

It was named (Via the download you guys linked to) mod.INI

And to my surprise, after renaming to all lower case, it appears. Amazing. Launcher is case sensitive to *.ini files.

Thanks for the help guys. Much appreciated.

[praseodym]

[OT] Any Modder should consider that: Case sensitivity, especially on Linux-systems (like here). Most of the mod.ini files read: mediavps_2014 instead of MediaVPs_2014.