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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Honest989 on June 27, 2006, 01:36:05 pm
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First, I've done a search but sadly the links to the custom covers by you guys has evaporated :(
Second, I've just seen on amazon actual official dvd covers for the game (retailing at like $80) but the available pictures would look wrong if I just did a paint shop pro job on them.
So does anyone have dvd art for freespace 2? I'm keeping the cd's in a DVD box now, so I'd like to keep a label of sorts.
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http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/freespace-2/cover-art (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/freespace-2/cover-art)
There. US, French and German editions.
It was third on google search for "freespace 2" cover.
Good to find these, though... I have the Great War + FS2 bundle cover, but I don't have them with me right now (they are about 700 clicks away). But I guess these are the ones you were looking for?
EDIT: Though they put ugly MobyGames logo on them... :hopping: ...bugger. Oh well you can always clone brush the logos away. Otherwise the pics are good enough quality IMO.
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thanks dude, that's what I'm looking for. I was searching for game covers and fs2 dvd cover and just getting random sites.
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Yeah, they were not on first search... or second, or third. It took some tries after our common friend Google found what we needed.
This is what I have at home:
(http://www.grdb.de/spiele_big/1617.jpg)
..thus I'm not sure if it's just that one, I think there were a few editions for that cover. Very similar it is, however.
Only problem with those pics I posted last time is indeed the nasty logo above :v:, and the fact that the pics are a little too wide... and there is nothing in the gap between them. Though it's relatively easy to put something in there.
EDIT: I edited the pictures a tiny bit and put them together into one file, plus put something really simple (but surprisingly good-looking) between them. If you want to take a look at it, here (http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/DVD_cover_5.jpg) is the file... And if you will, you can easily put something more advanced between the front and back. That was really fast doodled together, so there definitely is room for improvement. But as I said, it looks surprisingly good under DVD's cover plastic... except that the back really has/had a tremendous amount of compression artefacts. I Gaussed them, increased contrast and brightness and they lessened... hopefully. Oh yeah, and I edited the Moby Games crap out of them and replaced the :v: logos with proper ones. :cool:
The file should be printable as it is, on 300 dpi.
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(http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/7518/dscf14222dm.th.jpg) (http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/7518/dscf14222dm.jpg)
:D :p
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*drool*
Any change of getting a high-resolution scans of those? The MobyGames pics have HUGE compression artefacts, after all.
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dont have a scanner sadly, and getting it properly with my digicam is gonna be veeeery hard.
i can try, but... dont count on it too much.
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(http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/7518/dscf14222dm.th.jpg) (http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/7518/dscf14222dm.jpg)
:D :p
Is that a jewel case? The copy of FS2 that my brother borrowed from someone 6 or 7 years ago (the one that made me want to spend days scouring the internet for a copy five years later) was in a weird cardoard sorta flip case.
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I think that's just a box.
I, on the other hand, do have the joy of possessing Descent: Freespace & Freespace: Silent Threat coupled flip case edition... :p That box there doesn't look like a flip box. A flip box would be like this...
(http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/flip_box_cds_thumbnail.jpg) (http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/flip_box_cds_small.jpg)
Flip box front(s) (http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/flip_box_fronts_small.jpg)
The Great War backside (http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/flip_box_fronts_fsback.jpg)
Silent Threat backside (http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/flip_box_fronts_stback.jpg)
;)
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Now all we need is Strat's Cover Redux pic and we're set. :p
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(http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/7518/dscf14222dm.th.jpg) (http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/7518/dscf14222dm.jpg)
:D :p
Is that a jewel case? The copy of FS2 that my brother borrowed from someone 6 or 7 years ago (the one that made me want to spend days scouring the internet for a copy five years later) was in a weird cardoard sorta flip case.
(http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/3294/dscf14567nm.th.jpg) (http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/3294/dscf14567nm.jpg)
3CD JEWEL CASE. CRY LITTLE FELLOWS, CRY!
i bought the game in '99, when it came out. buying fs2 forced my dad to buy me a Voodoo2 :D
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3CD JEWEL CASE. CRY LITTLE FELLOWS, CRY!
i bought the game in '99, when it came out. buying fs2 forced my dad to buy me a Voodoo2 :D
How did you get one of those fat jewel cases? I got FS2 the day it came out and it came in the flimsy cardboard case thesizzler referred to (which has fallen apart over the years, it barely holds the CDs anymore).
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Ah, I thought that thesizzler was speaking about the carton box and not the plastic CD container. :nervous:
Anyway... What are you using as an excuse of a camera, pecenipicek? Either your photography equipment or your skills at photography suck big time. And no, this is not meant to be an insult of any kind. I'm just curious.
Strat's cover redux is cool. But I think it needs to be reproduced. Someone should FRED a mission setting the background and the ships into space, and make the Moloch shoot at Deimos. Then, the screenshot should be taken so that the Deimos is pointing down when the screen is captured. That way we could get a 3:4 picture instead of traditional 4:3, if you get my meaning. A picture shaped like that would fit more nicely onto DVD cover.
To make sure I get my message clear, the current cover redux is like this:
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While a DVD cover should be shaped more like this:
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:D
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I got mine at around 2000. It was the original 3 CD set with the box art of the moloch blasting the deimos. i'm going HOLY CRAP FS2! I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WAS A SEQUEL!!111one.
i had a decent enough GFX card to play FS2 on my windows 98, but it had an annoying flickering around the entire screen. the entire starfield, HUD, and every ship would disappear, or at other times only the HUD would remain. didn't get that problem in nebulae though.
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3CD JEWEL CASE. CRY LITTLE FELLOWS, CRY!
i bought the game in '99, when it came out. buying fs2 forced my dad to buy me a Voodoo2 :D
How did you get one of those fat jewel cases? I got FS2 the day it came out and it came in the flimsy cardboard case thesizzler referred to (which has fallen apart over the years, it barely holds the CDs anymore).
*insert Doctor Evil smilie here*
its a european release... i think. dunno. i was lucky i guess. we never got any games outside jewel cases. until a few years ago when the DVD boxes hit the shelves. DVD boxes are one of the reasons i dont buy games anymore...
Anyway... What are you using as an excuse of a camera, pecenipicek? Either your photography equipment or your skills at photography suck big time. And no, this is not meant to be an insult of any kind. I'm just curious.
no insult taken :D
well, reason number 1, i've been having some problems with my hand coordination lately, and well, i'm a bit jittery... it goes away the same way it comes... *shrugs*
reason number2, well, its a relatively ancient digicam. a Fujifilm Finepix A310 i borrowed from my sis, i think it had a fair share of abuse and is going the way of dodo...
apart from my inability to hold my hands still, there's nothing wrong. too much :p
i used to take some pretty nice photos, but this camera is simply... well... bonkers. i get clearer pics with my bloody webcam. but the resolution on the webcam sucks sadly...
anyways, Cobra, did you have one of those TNT's or TNT2's? i've heard around that time that they were sometimes playing bonkers with the graphics in FS2...
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@ pecenipicek
Interesting, because if your camera uses even half-sane exposure times (like, say, 1/60th s), even one with terminal Parkinson disease could take decent enough shot.
If your camera only has automatic control and you don't want to use the flash (as is often case with this kind of subjects, reflections are BAD), you have to find a place where there is strong lighting, preferably ambient (indirect). Outdoors with a cloudy sky is great. Good lighting makes the automatic system drop down the exposure time and decrease the aperture, which both increase the sharpness of the image.
If you can't increase the amount of light, you can try to find a setup to increase the CCD cell sensitivity. This, however, also increases the amount of noise in the picture - often quite substantially, so this is usually the almost last resort...
If you have a manual control on your camera, even if it's half assed as they usually are on small digi cams, learn to use it. Generally, use as short an exposure time as possible, and as small an aperture as possible. If the stability of your hand prohibits you using "long" exp times such as 1/20 s or even 1/10 s, use shorter exposure times and bigger aperture.
One more nice trick. If you have trouble pressing the trigger of the camera and keeping the camera steady meanwhile, you can try and set the self-trigger on to, say, three seconds. That way you can press the trigger, keep the aim and perhaps support your hand on to something, and when the auto-trigger takes the picture, your fingers don't need to move. I sometimes use this method when the lighting is poor but I definitely don't want to use the flash... I've got decently stable pics at 1/8 s, sometimes.
You shouldn't have any problems with exp. times at about 1/60 s. It's small enough a time that even with trembling hands the pic would be rather sharp. But like I said, if you use automatic control and set the flash off, and the lighting is poor, the automatic will set the time on too big, resulting on trembling pics like yours. In your case, you can actually safely take a bit under-exposured pictures and edit the lighting on computer, if you just can find the manual controls of your cam.
...Of course, if the camera is old enough and bashed enough, it won't work as it should, and you can't get good pictures.
And if you know anything about photography, this message is utter waste of time, but all the same... I can't know what your knowledge level is exactly. ;)
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I think that's just a box.
I, on the other hand, do have the joy of possessing Descent: Freespace & Freespace: Silent Threat coupled flip case edition... :p That box there doesn't look like a flip box. A flip box would be like this...
(http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/flip_box_cds_thumbnail.jpg) (http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/flip_box_cds_small.jpg)
Flip box front(s) (http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/flip_box_fronts_small.jpg)
The Great War backside (http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/flip_box_fronts_fsback.jpg)
Silent Threat backside (http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/flip_box_fronts_stback.jpg)
;)
Even when I got it, I've wondered, what is that ship on front of the FS1 box?
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I've always assumed it's a Typhon.
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Ya, it's a Typhon all right.
anyways, Cobra, did you have one of those TNT's or TNT2's? i've heard around that time that they were sometimes playing bonkers with the graphics in FS2...
Actually, i don't know what the hell kind of graphics card I had. All i know was that it was a stock intel pentium 2 video card. *shrug*
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@ pecenipicek
Interesting, because if your camera uses even half-sane exposure times (like, say, 1/60th s), even one with terminal Parkinson disease could take decent enough shot.
If your camera only has automatic control and you don't want to use the flash (as is often case with this kind of subjects, reflections are BAD), you have to find a place where there is strong lighting, preferably ambient (indirect). Outdoors with a cloudy sky is great. Good lighting makes the automatic system drop down the exposure time and decrease the aperture, which both increase the sharpness of the image.
If you can't increase the amount of light, you can try to find a setup to increase the CCD cell sensitivity. This, however, also increases the amount of noise in the picture - often quite substantially, so this is usually the almost last resort...
If you have a manual control on your camera, even if it's half assed as they usually are on small digi cams, learn to use it. Generally, use as short an exposure time as possible, and as small an aperture as possible. If the stability of your hand prohibits you using "long" exp times such as 1/20 s or even 1/10 s, use shorter exposure times and bigger aperture.
One more nice trick. If you have trouble pressing the trigger of the camera and keeping the camera steady meanwhile, you can try and set the self-trigger on to, say, three seconds. That way you can press the trigger, keep the aim and perhaps support your hand on to something, and when the auto-trigger takes the picture, your fingers don't need to move. I sometimes use this method when the lighting is poor but I definitely don't want to use the flash... I've got decently stable pics at 1/8 s, sometimes.
You shouldn't have any problems with exp. times at about 1/60 s. It's small enough a time that even with trembling hands the pic would be rather sharp. But like I said, if you use automatic control and set the flash off, and the lighting is poor, the automatic will set the time on too big, resulting on trembling pics like yours. In your case, you can actually safely take a bit under-exposured pictures and edit the lighting on computer, if you just can find the manual controls of your cam.
...Of course, if the camera is old enough and bashed enough, it won't work as it should, and you can't get good pictures.
And if you know anything about photography, this message is utter waste of time, but all the same... I can't know what your knowledge level is exactly. ;)
not really meaningless, but its bashed enough or either i'm an idiot and i dont know how to adjust such stuff :p
and i'm not sure my came is even half-sane :eek: :p
i'll try to poke around with it tho, to see what can i do with exposure times...
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Oh and one more thing - if you really have trouble keeping your hands steady, even if it comes and goes, go see a doctor about it.
It could be caused by many things, but the worst case scenario would be some kind of central nervous system disease, such as brain tumor. On the other hand, it can be caused by many others, less destructive things - such as being tired, either after hard physical work or too little sleep. But I would definitely check it out if I were you. :nod:
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I think that's just a box.
I, on the other hand, do have the joy of possessing Descent: Freespace & Freespace: Silent Threat coupled flip case edition... :p That box there doesn't look like a flip box. A flip box would be like this...
(http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/flip_box_cds_thumbnail.jpg) (http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/flip_box_cds_small.jpg)
Flip box front(s) (http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/flip_box_fronts_small.jpg)
The Great War backside (http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/flip_box_fronts_fsback.jpg)
Silent Threat backside (http://users.tkk.fi/~lmiettun/Kuvat/FS2_Open/flip_box_fronts_stback.jpg)
;)
Hah, I saw that in a store for a buck. I can't believe I didn't get it, since I don't have the original FS1 cd's.
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Oh and one more thing - if you really have trouble keeping your hands steady, even if it comes and goes, go see a doctor about it.
It could be caused by many things, but the worst case scenario would be some kind of central nervous system disease, such as brain tumor. On the other hand, it can be caused by many others, less destructive things - such as being tired, either after hard physical work or too little sleep. But I would definitely check it out if I were you. :nod:
yeah, well, its probably a combination of too little sleep, bloody too hot weather and a bit of caffeine overdose here and there... yay ;)
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I remember my fs2 original box i got in 2000. It came with the 3 cd cardboard thingy. Bought fs1 and the silent threat pack which came with a cardboard cd thingy. And then i lost my original copy of fs2 and bought fs2 game of the year edition which still came with the cd cardboard thingy :p I was cursed, but back in the day i played with a voodoo3 3000 16mb, best graphics card of the era, i didn't much care for 32bit. But, i had to turn the game down to medium quality because the 2d capship shockwaves would always give me a slow down :p i had a celeron 433 clocked to 533 :D with 128mb of sdram with a bigfoot 12gb hard drive that fit inside of one of my cd bays :D That was one sweet computer for it's day. And **** nvidia for killing the 3dfx competition, nvidia did something like buy the 3dfx company. Seriously, horrible demise for 3dfx, the voodoo5's were really awesome, and they're demise got rid of some really good competition in the graphics market. Now it's just the big 2, nvidia and ati, there were some chips from sis and s3. There was the kyro chips. But ultimately today it's still the big two, which pisses me off, because their's not as much variety anymore. Hell even diamondmm use to make they're own cards, now they make cards for ati. Uuugh, the graphics market use to be more diverse, now it's radeon this, geforce my mom :(
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nvidia incorporated some of 3dfx's ideas in its own designs tho, which cant be said of ati :p
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I miss the days of really cool box art - these days you get a crappy dvd case and some dodgy insert...
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Well still, i don't think nvidia is any better today because of the 3dfx buy. I mean they're cards afterwards were not so totally radically different afterwards as if to be some kind of new incarnation of graphics or hybrid of a geforce and a voodoo. Nvidia just sort of kept pumping out the regular stuff. And obviously ati just sort of cruised they're own road to. The 3dfx buy seems like a waist in the fashion that it happened and what was done with it. Now if nvidia tried a hybrid card of nvidia tech and 3dfx tech, getting the best of the both companies technologies in one card. There you go, you'd have something really awesome to use. But no, nvidia's like we'll use a couple of ideas. Box art, i like the little mini pc game boxes a lot better than the huge ones. If only fs2 came in one of those, that'd be sweet. But anyway, my full sized box and everything for fs2 excluding the cd's is still mint condition, that surprised the **** out of me, i thought i was throwing that box across the room years ago :)
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I really like the idea of everyone posting a picture of thier copy of Freespace for some reason.
Here's my FS2, original box, with the manual, reference card and even the registration card. (Plus recipet incase I ever need to go back in time and return it.) Heee!
(http://myrmidonprocess.com/imageupload/images/myfreespace244b050db1ef14.jpg)
It's one of about three old boxes I havn't thown away. I was forced to do away with tons and tons of them when we moved, but there was no way I could part with my darling FS2.
Also, what's up with that white version of the FS2 box? It looks so messed up... =/
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Speaking of FS2 3CD Jewel case... I have one, too. But mine was made from cutting the old cardboard box one and putting the front and back pages into a 3cd jewel case that I had laying about. :p
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Ferret, we have exactly the same one :D
however, i dont know where my manual or the reference sheets winded up... :( soo sad...
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Ferret, we have exactly the same one :D
however, i dont know where my manual or the reference sheets winded up... :( soo sad...
Hisss! Incomplete!
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I have everything that came with the GOTY edition, imssing the registration card and receipt, but dad had the receipt. :nervous: