[Stryke 9]

Yeah, FS2 has finally been hosted by Home of the Underdogs. Which could well mean an instant doubling of the amount of people in the FS community, since they get something like 900 accesses a day. You can thank me in cash or gifts with lots of fiddly technologic bits.

http://www.the-underdogs.org/

[Solatar]

HOTU says that Volition has the rights to the game...

[Galemp]

Seems like a dubious claim to me... but hey! The source is out and it's been out of print for a while now.

And guess what?! They have the Port website on their links for it! WAKKA!!

[Cetanu]

just curious: what fs2 sale version was ripped?

[Knight Templar]

Random *****: You didn't pimp or add HLP to related links

[EdrickV]

Originally posted by Hades
HOTU says that Volition has the rights to the game...

I believe Volition has the copyrights to most of the code (except for the stuff they didn't write) and things like the art, sounds, etc. Interplay may have the publishing rights for the Freespace series. But I'm no lawyer so this is just a guess.

[ZylonBane]

Surely they don't have all 3 CDs worth, right? No point to playing FS2 without the cutscenes.

[Stryke 9]

We could only fit in the three end cutscenes- they're really huge, Interplay did a ****ty job at compression.

Which is EXACTLY why I was trying to get a straight answer about movie formats out of the Source people. Now, it's too late, but hey.


Underdogs doesn't know any more about the game than we do, I'm sure. Don't get your knickers in a bunch about Volition having had the full rights all this time.



And I did have a pimp for HLP- I've recommended it twice on the board, and mentioned it in the readme. So there.



Oh, and I haven't the ****ingest what version it was. When I got it it was already ripped and ready for compression- I basically just added the cutscenes and a readme, packaged it, and sent it up.

[kode]

they've done a facelift since I was there last time... nice.

[Fury]

FS2 there is only  219MB big. It has no cutscenes or high-res files. I wonder what else has been cut...
Readme howewer says where you can download the missing pieces.

It's still just a rip. I wonder if there will be any problems with mods and total conversions....

I wonder if we could somehow host the real cd-images...

[Stryke 9]

ISOs are way too big- I think she's got three total on there, and they aren't even normally-sized games. Keep in mind that HOTU is in a constant state of crisis over its bandwidth- she explicitly told me that it had to be at about the size it is now.

But I uploaded the sound .vp to another site last night, so it's available at least to the HOTU regulars.

[Whitelight]

There database is currently down, guess they got overloaded

[Warlock]

Originally posted by Whitelight
There database is currently down, guess they got overloaded

It was off and on all morning ... I DLed a game ,.. 253 Meg,...at 10KBps :| First time I've had a straight 'save as' download take 6 hours on here since I got cable

[Whitelight]

Wow i`ve got cable to, i`ll try d/l it also.. I`ll let you know how long it took once it`s done.

(edit) hmmm, still hard to access the site, maybe try later

[CP5670]

It was off and on all morning ... I DLed a game ,.. 253 Meg,...at 10KBps :| First time I've had a straight 'save as' download take 6 hours on here since I got cable

I had the same problem when getting SS2 from there, but I just left it on all night and it was done in the morning. The site is very good, but the download servers are way too slow.

[Stryke 9]

'Cos nobody clicks the banners, and nobody sends money to pay for bandwidth.

[Warlock]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
'Cos nobody clicks the banners, and nobody sends money to pay for bandwidth.

Well yea this we knew I don't even acknowledge any banners m,,,,espeically pop ups ,...got a good habit of instantly closing anything that pops up on me

Don't get me wrong i wasn't upset at it, just took me by surprise is all,...normally a site that has ow bandwidth like that I could use Get Right so I didn't have to just sit back and wait all day,....but it's all good

[Stryke 9]

Guess why there are so many. And you'd better damn well "acknowledge" some banners if you DL something from there- we have enough server outages as it is.

Eh- anyway, apparently the cracker included even less than I thought. No sound and only the end cutscenes, but we're working on it. It'd be really nice to get those cutscenes DivXed, so we could fit on the sound .vp, but I dunno... DAMN stuff takes up a lot of space.

[Rampage]

This is great news.  The site seems legitmate enough.  I'll spread the news to my students.

Talking about ISO(s).  What I really want is an ISO of Descent 2 and D2: Vertigo.  Does HOTU have that?  (I can't find it anywhere, not even an used copy!)

[YodaSean]

yay!  my CD died a while back and I don't have an install on any of my hardrives, although perhaps i could still extract the movies and whatever else isn't included