[Stryke 9]

Yoda: Go on the board when you're done with the download, find the link in Tech Help, and get the messages .vp- it's apparently pretty important if you don't want all the messages to just flash by.

Rampage: Looks like you can buy a used copy. A link is provided in the entry.

[Fafner]

Good work getting FS2 on underdogs, although it would be even better with sound included (I can live without the cutscenes). I hesitate to recomend anyone to download a game without sound. I tried the link http://210.0.163.146/fileshare/stu_fs2.rar for downloading voice files (mentioned in the underdog tech help forum) but it only got me to a textpage looking like this:

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and it goes on...

I dont need this download for myself, got two copies of FS2 (one scratched cd in the first set), but ppl have asked me where to find FS2 in a hardware forum i hang out at.

[diamondgeezer]

Blimey, there's someone we don't often see - how's tricks, Fafner?

[Galemp]

It's possible you don't have RAR files associated with anything, so it's trying to open it up as a text file. Save it, and open it with WinRAR instead, see if that works.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
It's possible you don't have RAR files associated with anything, so it's trying to open it up as a text file. Save it, and open it with WinRAR instead, see if that works.

install WinRAR first

[Stryke 9]

I also uploaded the VP file uncompressed, and it should still be there. Some people were having problems with it, but I'm not sure whether to chalk that up to pilot error or not.

At any rate, it works for most.

[Fafner]

OK i'll install winrar

and hi diamondgeezer, all well here




Fafner

[Fafner]

I've advertised this download at a hardware forum I hang out at, and several ppl are interested but the 640 resolution scares them off... It wouldnt be possible to make a separate download for the high res files? like with the soundfiles.

I'm guessing it's the sparky_hi_fs2.vp that is needed? , can it be added to the fs2 directory after install, or must it be "installed". If it's not possible to upload it to underdogs maybe we can share it on kazaa?

[karajorma]

AFAIK simply copying that file to the FS2 directory will enable you to play in high res. However I`ve never been able to test it directly as the only easy way to get hold of that file is by doing a full install of FS2

[diamondgeezer]

I think I heard that if you don't install the hi-res stuff initially, the game will never allow to you to use the hi-res art, even if you add it later. Perhaps a registry hack could remedy this?

[EdrickV]

The game will let you run in high res if the high res VP is installed, you don't have to reinstall if you can get the VP. (I've got 2 FS2 installs, one which I had installed with the high res pack and one which I didn't and have used high res in both.)

[Fafner]

Thanx Edrick,
I also made a second install at 640 (before I saw your post lol) to make sure.

So if anyone could upload the sparky_hi_fs2.vp at underdogs I would be very pleased. Meanwhile I'm sharing my sparky_hi_fs2.vp at Kazaa, but I dont leave my comp on at night (problems with cooling) so the underdog upload is really needed, also if more ppl can share their sparky_hi_fs2.vp at Kazaa it would help those that only got the 640x480 download.

Faf

[karajorma]

I`ve already put it and the voice files .vp (who's name slips me at the moment) on kazaa.

[Stryke 9]

If you mean for the HOTU community, they're pretty dead-set against Kazaa, seeing as it's a warez pit and the easiest way to get a nasty virus short of sleeping with a $12 hooker.

[karajorma]

Yeah I know what you mean. I never download software from that Kazaa but since you never actually execute a .vp file could you actually catch a virus that way?

[Fafner]

I mean it for the ppl at my hardware forum, I've advertised the underdog release, and several ppl have downloaded it. Some of these have 21'' screens, and 640x480 isnt all that fun on a 21'' screen. I would like to help them out, and if underdog cant upload the high res files, the only way is to share the vp files on Kazaa.

By the way, I cant access the soundfile rar anymore, have you taken it down?

For now i share both sparky_hi_fs2.vp and stu_fs2.vp on Kazaa.

[Stunaep]

Stealth, with you getting a server and all, wouldn't it be possible to, you know...

[Stryke 9]

'Tain't my upload site, I think it's a HOTU community server or summat.

You think we can get Fileplanet to host it? 'Cos HOTU won't for long and they're very strongly anti-warez, and thus vehemently anti-Kazaa (comes from having the ISDA crawling up your ass every ten minutes because you're the biggest abandonware site in town).

[Baron MacDoblin]

Where can I download the FreeSpace 2 cutscenes?

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Baron MacDoblin
Where can I download the FreeSpace 2 cutscenes?

You`ll be very lucky to find them online. In fact I`m amazed that you`ve managed to find the other missing files (where did you get them from?)

One big problem is that unlike the .vp files most people didn`t copy the files off of the CD's so they aren`t available as easily on kazaa.