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Makar40:
Ive read the faq and been searching the boards. Ive downloaded tons of stuff here, and been playing the Wing Commander Saga and whatnot(which I understand is a stand-alone project). 
  What I need to figure out, is if I want to play FreeSpace 1 and 2, do I need to own the original games, or can I download a version that was compiled from the released source code?  basically I would like to be able to play the games again JUST as they were back when, except maybe using the graphic upgrades made by the SCP team. Do you know what I mean? Any help would be appreciated.....basically is it possible and what do I need to be able to do it? Thanks a ton!!!

haloboy100:
:welcomeblue:
If you want to play the game all shiny and with graphics upgrades, just select your "mediavps" folder using the mod feature, in the launcher.exe. then play the freespace 2 campaign. If you want to play the freespace 1 campaign, then you need to download the fsport (if you haven't already) from http://fsport.hard-light.net/, and select THAT with the mod feature after installing it.

If you have the SCP installed, then you won't need the freespace disks. If you don't want he shiny new graphical upgrades, then don't select any mod at all.

Dark Hunter:
But you do need to install FSOpen on a pre-existing copy of FS2, no?
If you don't have FS2, look here.

Enjoy!  :yes:

Goober5000:

--- Quote from: Makar40 on July 10, 2007, 04:12:29 pm ---Ive read the faq and been searching the boards. Ive downloaded tons of stuff here, and been playing the Wing Commander Saga and whatnot(which I understand is a stand-alone project). 
  What I need to figure out, is if I want to play FreeSpace 1 and 2, do I need to own the original games, or can I download a version that was compiled from the released source code?  basically I would like to be able to play the games again JUST as they were back when, except maybe using the graphic upgrades made by the SCP team. Do you know what I mean? Any help would be appreciated.....basically is it possible and what do I need to be able to do it? Thanks a ton!!!
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I don't think the previous two responses adequately addressed the question, so I'll give it a shot...

You need the original game.

FreeSpace consists of the game data and the game engine.  The engine is just a simple executable file.  The game data can be found in VPs, table files, graphics files, custom missions, user mods, etc.  Basically, if you want a no-frills SCP upgrade, you can simply use the SCP executable instead of the original executable.

The SCP, by itself, does not contain any graphical or multimedia enhancements.  Those are in a separate but related project which produces the mediaVPs which you often hear about.  The original game will ignore the mediaVPs (if you install them correctly) but the SCP will use them.

The absolute easiest way to check out the community enhancements is to do the following:

1) Install the original game
2) Use Turey's Installer to add the upgrades that you want

haloboy100:
Goob strikes again!

...and it hits home!

But for the record, i responded figuring he said he downloaded all the stuff here, and since he's familiar with WCS he must be acquainted with scp as well.

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