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Title: fs2 retail?
Post by: aceofbase on April 06, 2005, 11:53:27 am

HI, am glade to post here again at this forum. its been very helpfull to me . well i have a question about the meaning of fs2 retail because
when i was trying to look for some of the user made campains
they said it will work with the full retail version of fs2 well i have only
the (hotu) is that deffrent from the retail ? i tryed looking up the meaning of retail but i still dont understand!!!!!

Title: fs2 retail?
Post by: Nuclear1 on April 06, 2005, 11:55:08 am

:welcome:

There are only a few slight differences between HOTU and retail. If you had GOTY edition, that would have come with the user-made missions and Templar campaign that you're looking for.

I'm sure there's a link to them somewhere.

Title: fs2 retail?
Post by: karajorma on April 06, 2005, 01:01:51 pm

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Originally posted by nuclear1
There are only a few slight differences between HOTU and retail.

I'd disagree with that actually. There's actually some pretty big differences between the two in terms of how you'd use them with mods.

Retail FS2 is basically the version you buy in the shops. It came on 3 CDs, has all the cutscenes and keep all it's important files in VP files in the main FS2 folder.

HotU FS2 on the other hand has only 3 cutscenes, is missing a lot of files and most importantly of all keeps all it's data in the Freespace2\Data folder.

This change is what will cause you problems when you install mods.

How do I install mods on HotU?

Due to the way HotU works installing mods on HotU is troublesome. It is best that you download the missing VP files and make HotU into an almost exact copy of retail before installing mods. (Details on how to do that are given here (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/hotu.html))
If for some reason you don't want to do that then you should follow these rules

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extract the files that make up the mod you want to install. If the files simply consist of files with the extension .fs2 and .fc2 then you can simply copy these to Freespace2\Data\Missions (It is unlike that you will be prompted to overwrite something. If it does then you should not do this and instead should go to the next point).
If there are no files with the extension .vp then you should copy your entire Freespace 2\Data folder and then install the mod following the instructions that came with the mod. If you are prompted to overwrite a file you may now do so safely.

When you are tired of the mod You can simply rename or delete the Data folder and restore the copy you made.

If there are any files with the extention .vp you should follow the instructions above but in addition you will need to download VPView and extract the contents of the VP to the corresponding subfolders of Freespace2\Data (I.e anything in the maps folder of the VP must go in the Freespace2\Data\Maps folder). You can find information on how to get and use VPView here (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/old/directories.html).

If you do not follow these guidelines you will probably find that although the mod may possibly work you'll be unable to play the standard FS2 missions without reinstalling HotU.

Title: fs2 retail?
Post by: aceofbase on April 07, 2005, 03:41:26 am

ok,eazy am glade the mods will work at the end now can you please
tell me haw to patch my fs2 v1.0 to fs2 v1.20
i know there is a link at free space oracle but it not working
is there alternatevs

Title: fs2 retail?
Post by: karajorma on April 07, 2005, 01:10:32 pm

Works fine for me. You're using the link for the HotU crack pack from the downloads page right?

Title: fs2 retail?
Post by: aceofbase on April 08, 2005, 04:38:37 am

am talking about this :
homepage.ntlworld.com/karajoma/freespace/old/hotu.html
HAW TO INSTALL THE HOTU VERISON?
quote :haw ever if you try to upgrade this you will find...the best thing to do is to download yourdefs a copy of (this)>
now (thins) is a dead link. i dont know what is behind it and i dont know anything about any crack pack!
and i want to say its an honor talking to mister karajorma. but please understand am new to this free space big world and somtimes it looks so hard for a guy that just want to plug and playe.
what download page i dont see any download page at oracle?

Title: fs2 retail?
Post by: aceofbase on April 08, 2005, 08:40:22 am

ahh. ok i found the link now , via the mercury affair page. well i got it
now, its working. and i guess i solved another problem by luck which is
(the tom old bulid exe) that you told me to install for multy player had bloacked all the single missons campaing. it was asking me for cd2 but now it has the nocd file i guess right? anyway i tried it and both multy and singl missons are working and the game has upgreaded to 1.20 as i read it at the main bridge screen thank you mister karajorma.