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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Nik on June 12, 2006, 06:29:42 am
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It seems all the links I have tried don't work.....I got FS2 from Underdog, and I really need the cutscenes but the main link (freespace oracle) where they are meant to be has exceeded its bandwith! Could any of you guys help me out with getting the cutscenes??? would be really appreciated. I really hope there is still a way to get them cos it would be a shame to miss out on the experience. Cheers!
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Im sure that someone will post some advice on that, in the meantime..
:welcome:
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Thanks for the welcome Colonal......I stumbled upon FS 2 literally a few days ago.....am ashamed callin myself a long time gamer and I just found this gem....
I used to love X-Wing back in the day, but just from the tutorials on FS2 I could tell this one is smthing special.....so I simply cannot start playing the game proper without the cutscenes!
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Most of the good stuff is ingame anyway,
In the meantime, Download the FS port from the main page (http://www.hard-light.net (http://www.hard-light.net)) youll find a link to it, And play through FS1 (no cutscenes needed) itll walk you into FS2 nicely.
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So all i need is the freespace 'port' and I can start playing FS 1? as u can see im a total noob, ...and yeap that would be an excellent transition into FS2, but I do need those cutscenes real bad! :)
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http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,39167.msg796535.html#msg796535 (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,39167.msg796535.html#msg796535)
After 2 mins of search, this might help you out...
(FAQS in the siggy by the way)
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Thanks Dekker I checked it out but the link on that page directs me back to that same Kajorama's freespace portal where the download cutscenes link doesnt work anymore......I really hope someone knows where to find a working link!
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Erk? Sorry mate i had no idea, I own RETAIL so ive never neede to DL them, It cant cost much on play or amazon nowadays, I got the pair of them a few years back to replace a damaged FS1 cd for 9.99, I bought original for £30 back in 99.
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Erk? Sorry mate i had no idea, I own RETAIL so ive never neede to DL them, It cant cost much on play or amazon nowadays, I got the pair of them a few years back to replace a damaged FS1 cd for 9.99, I bought original for £30 back in 99.
Sorry to tell ya but the original CD's are going for upto £100 on Ebay best getting the Cd images an burning them! Cutscenes are included! If you have a fast enough connection that is you can get them on bit-torrent.
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005N99E/qid=1150117169/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl/203-0110019-6983112 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005N99E/qid=1150117169/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl/203-0110019-6983112)
£30 The pair :D
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005RDZQ/qid=1150117169/sr=8-6/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i6_xgl/203-0110019-6983112 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005RDZQ/qid=1150117169/sr=8-6/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i6_xgl/203-0110019-6983112)
Or FS2 alone = £15
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005N99E/qid=1150117169/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl/203-0110019-6983112 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005N99E/qid=1150117169/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl/203-0110019-6983112)
£30 The pair :D
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005RDZQ/qid=1150117169/sr=8-6/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i6_xgl/203-0110019-6983112 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005RDZQ/qid=1150117169/sr=8-6/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i6_xgl/203-0110019-6983112)
Or FS2 alone = £15
But why pay for them when you can download em for free?
An who the hell is Avalon interactive??
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surely there must be a way to get hold of the cutscenes via a working link if the game is still available for free.........?
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Im just saying Wobble73 why pay 100 on ebay whemn they're available guaranteed for a fraction of the price ;7
If Bit Torrent is feasible for ya Nik, by all means fill your boots :D
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Fairy Nuff! ;7
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haha im using windows xp and have a reasonably fast connection but being the noob that I am Colonol I have never used bit torrent so i dunno if I can use those files mate!
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Don't know who's this site is but this is where I got my images from
ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/games/freebies/Freespace2/
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I dont use it myself the last thing like that i used Was Kazaa back in 02.
Nik do whatever Wobble tells ya m8 and you wont go wrong :nod:
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Wobble u the man! so this is just a straight download and unzip and i get the full game with cutscenes?
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Wobble u the man! so this is just a straight download and unzip and i get the full game with cutscenes?
Glad to be of help, however, you don't just unzip them, you have to either mount them as virtual drives (?? i don't know how, but there are way??) or your hard drive or use nero to burn IMAGES to cd's. Note i said Images, not just the files. You may have to convert them to Bin files or from BIn files to ISO's, can't remenber which but I downloaded PowerISO to do this, a free little app, that requests registration, I chose Register later and it all seemed to work fine!
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ok so by Images I can just burn these to cd using Nero....after unzipping the files yeah......I suck at this kind of stuff as I was telling Dekker.....I hope this is not too complex a process! :D
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ok so by Images I can just burn these to cd using Nero....after unzipping the files yeah......I suck at this kind of stuff as I was telling Dekker.....I hope this is not too complex a process! :D
Yeah pretty much! I'm pretty hopeless at this stuff myself, (I searched ages for a site to download the images, until I found that site, Bit torrent wasn't an option for me either). But if you have the latest version of Nero, it shouldn't be a problem. If it complains about file not recognised, (I think my version of nero complained that it required an iso file to burn an image) and what you have is a bin file, you'll need something like PowerISO, which will convert the file for you. I hope you have plenty of HD space, you'll need 1.7gb just for the files your DL'ing then you'll need another 2gb for the conversion process
Good Luck
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ahh cool thanks a lot mate....still a bit shaky abt what an image is as opposed to just burning all the files I unzip....sorry abt the barrage of questions, last one i promise! :)
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LOL
:welcome:
A lot of the links don't work because we changed servers a while ago, so some of them are dead.
Does anyone know if ShivanSPS's torrent had the cutscenes included?
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Read the help files that come with Nero about Cd images, that could prob explain better than I. In fact i'm not even sure you unzip these files? I think they are in BIN format, (a packed file like a zip,rar or cab file), they just need to be converted to ISO format. and then the images need to be burned to CD, like I said, read NERO's help on this, I'm at work, not on my home computer so can't really tell you how at the mo' something to do with an extra button on the toolbar that says burn disk image or summat? :confused:
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LOL
:welcome:
A lot of the links don't work because we changed servers a while ago, so some of them are dead.
Does anyone know if ShivanSPS's torrent had the cutscenes included?
I'm sure it did Flipside, however never used it myself, but I seem to remember it stating it did.
By the way how come I never, ever got a welcome to HLPBB
{go into a corner and sulks}
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I cannot believe that all these replies, and no-one has suggested getting shivan's 1.8 torrent. It has all the cutscenes, the FS1 Port and the FS1 cutscenes, along with some of the better campaigns. And it has the Source Code Project upgrade, which this person has not said anything about and he really needs to use if he's just playing FS for the first time, since it makes the whole game look up to date.
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Read the last 2 posts before yours Neo ;)
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:P Well pardon me :lol:
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LOL
:welcome:
A lot of the links don't work because we changed servers a while ago, so some of them are dead.
Does anyone know if ShivanSPS's torrent had the cutscenes included?
I'm sure it did Flipside, however never used it myself, but I seem to remember it stating it did.
By the way how come I never, ever got a welcome to HLPBB
{go into a corner and sulks}
:welcome:
Happy? :D
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hey thanks for the welcome Flipside! now I feel right at home here, hehe.....didnt think getting the cutscenes would be this complicated though!...and since everyones talking abt this Bit Torrent which I have never used......is it worth getting it.....hmmm
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:lol: :yes:
BTW Nik, I recommend that if you want to play freespace1 you use the Freespaceport 3.0.3 and the Freespacemissions.vp, just put these in a seperate folder in your FS2 folder and choose them as a Mod
Neo, it seems that Nik is unsure of Bit torrents like myself therefore I didn't recommend Shivans torrent, although this is the best route for a newb I suppose. Can anyone post a link to thread for him to check out! And maybe explain bit torrents for him, I know its summat to do with Emule or summat.
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It's certainly worth getting, but you need to be aware that it's a P2P client, some paranoid types will assume that just because you have it installed that you are using it to download such things as copyrighted movies, music and games, though that's not what Bit Torrent was designed for, that's mostly what it gets used for.
There might be a way of simply getting the movies that I haven't thought of though, and the Torrent would take a good few days to download, it's not as fast as an FTP transfer. Your best bet is to get the Torrent rolling and then, if you get a better option, you can always cancel the download.
See sticky thread at top of page ;)
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if you just want to mount the images, download daemon tools, way better than poweriso or nero's virtual drives...
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if you just want to mount the images, download daemon tools, way better than poweriso or nero's virtual drives...
Now you're just confusing him LOL!!!!
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:hopping: :hopping: :hopping:
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LOL Mounting images really isn't required, better just to install the thing and have done with it, you don't need the disc in the drive to run SCP :)
By the way, try something like...
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
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hehe thanks for the input so far guys, .....i will let y'all know as soon as I am able to get the cutscenes sorted......what I wouldn't give for a link like FS2ALLCutscenes.avi or something......lol!
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Once you're up and running, you have to submit a 45 mission campaign, Its the law. :nod: :D ;7
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Well, wait till some of the other guys get on, which'll probs be a little later on, hopefully someone will be able to give you a faster way of getting them. The advantage of the BT version is that it contains just about everything, and most of it's the latest version. Though you'll probs need to get the latest version of the .exe file when it's done.
If you have any problems, feel free to ask :)
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Look if he really doesn't know much, all he has to do is go to www.utorrent.com and install that (a bit torrent client for windows) and use that to download the torrent, which can be found on this website somewhere. that will solve his cutscene problem, freespace 1 problem, not understanding how to upgrade freespace 2 to SCP problem and it'll make everything look awesome too ;0P
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Sorted Nik?
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thanks a bunch for the input guys! Dekker mate Im using Neoterrans client thingie now cos it seems to be easiest....and so Shivans pack is the thing to have?...it doesnt change the original too much with mods etc does it?
again thanks all for the help!
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AFAIK It adds graphic / modernisation update type features. For mods and stuff i reccomend inferno for after youve clocked FS2.
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ah cheers Dekker so I can pick and choose when to mod it.....and FSport is basically freespace 1 eh...
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Yup, it's a conversion of the original to Freespace 2 :)
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nice! real gem of a game here eh?... :)
on a side note, anyone been a little high while playing it? it does seem perfect as one of those types of games, watching a two massive cap ships tear each other two bits as u fly into the melee, high as a kite.... :D
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LMAO i actually was when i played the game first time around, i spent five minutes on the main flight deck going "dum dum dum, dum dum dum dee dum" in time with the music, then when the Psamtik blapped the Corvette iwas dumberstruck..
I was dumbstruck fom training beforehand at the fact the nubula backgrounds were more than one colour as opposed to FS1. :lol:
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ahahaha thats what im talking abt....the beauty of being dumbstruck in space.....i cant wait to play it proper and just soak in the atmosphere for the first few minutes! :pimp:
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...when the Psamtik blapped the Corvette iwas dumberstruck..
I was dumbstruck fom training beforehand... :lol:
Dumbstruck and dumberstruck?
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It was progessive, this is a non-canon (english language) word tht i utilise to emphasise levels of bewilderment ;)
Dumberstruck, i mean ;7
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hehe thanks for the input so far guys, .....i will let y'all know as soon as I am able to get the cutscenes sorted......what I wouldn't give for a link like FS2ALLCutscenes.avi or something......lol!
GAAAH!
@AlphaOne, if you haven't seen the FS1 movies,
http://oregonstate.edu/~plankerj/FS1movies/
Take a look at hallfight.avi Say hi to Carl for me.
FYI FS2 movies are here:
http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~plankerj/fs2movies/
These are usefull if you're using SCP and don't want to have to have your disc w/you when you play. Put them in \data\movies if you want to use them. Also, I wonder, do you use FSPort? If you put all the FS1 movies into \FSPort\data\movies , then they play when you run the Port as a mod.
Why didn't u use the search function?
EDIT: kara's got'em rared (or has links to whoever did, anyways). Had to follow my own advice and use the search function.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/FAQ/movies.html
EDIT2: & he's right, http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~plankerj/fs2movies/ doesn't work. I think that's where I picked 'em up from, but it doesn't work now. Oh well.
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The second link won't work. It's been down for ages.