[Roberto88h]

Hey i'm new to the forums, so first of all hi!.

second, a few years back for roughly $10USD I bought FS1 and the Silent threat expansion in a bundle.  I played through the campaign a few times and have periodically uninstalled and reinstalled them throughout the years.  They have given me much joy and happiness and are some of the two most charished games I own.  

Now down to business:

For the past year or so I've been going through as many PC game bargain bins I can find looking for FS2 and have been unsucessful.  Finally a few days back I downloaded the HOTU version of FS2.  While, I'm very happy that I finally found the game, as you all know it has some severe limitations (no hi res, minimal sound, animations, etc.).  I have performed many searches on this forum and others, and I have googled and scoured the web, but alas all my efforts to find a way of getting the files needed to remove these limitations have been in vain.  

This is where you come in.

I am very happy to have FS2 at all, and in a worst case scenario, I would live with what I have, but I would be forever in someones debt if they could give me or show me how to get even one of the ".vp" files I need.  I do not care if it involves getting the 3 ISO's or just 1 .vp file.  I have DSL so I can get even the ISO's done in one night.  I looked at the stickied post about the FTP at the top of these forums and nothing there is of much use.

Please, if some one could provide a method of me getting rid of even one limitation in my current verion of FS2 I would be, quite literally, in your debt.  Even if you tell me there is no way to solve this then I will be happy that I know for sure that I am stuck.  

You may post solutions in this thread, send me a PM, or even shoot me an email, even if it's only to tell me I'm screwed.

If I have missed an obvious solution to my problem then I am very sorry and you may let the flaming commence.

Thanks for all of your help in advance,

Robert :thepimp:

[Dark RevenantX]

DON'T ATTACK HIM WITH BEAMS!!!! HE ALREADY HAS SUFFERED FROM TWO IN HIS OTHER THREAD!!!

Also, I think someone here has the isos up for download somewere.  I forgot who, though...

[Roberto88h]

Thanks for the quick response Dark Revanant.

Keep the post rolling please.

I'm up to 6 post and I've only been a part of these forums for less than 30 minutes.  I'm on Fiyah

[Taristin]

Cobra posted a link some time ago. Damned if I remember it though...

[Black Wolf]

www.freespacezone.com

[Roberto88h]

Thanks a lot Black Wolf, but sadly all of the links on that page say "Bandwidth Exceded" when I click on them. Maybe at the beginning of next month they'll work...

Thanks a lot, but if anyone has any other alternatives I would really appreciate it.

[Goober5000]

Have you tried eBay or Amazon?

While you'd be set back a fair amount of money (anywhere from $20 to $100) at least you'd have your own copy.

[Roberto88h]

Thanks for all the replies so far.  In the  end I might end up buying the game online after all:sigh:.

By the way, just an idle question, does anybody have any good suggestions for FS1 mods or something to givemy copy of FS1 some extra life?

PS.
This forum is by far the forum with the quickest response time i've ever seen. Sometimes I end up waiting for a couple of days before I get a half decent answer. This place is awesome.

[Ghost]

Wasn't Derelict originally an FS1 campaign?

[Hippo]

i don't recall it being one...

There's a lot of old FS1 campaigns lying around, and very few new ones... I'd say to check the Volition watch archives ( www.freespace.volitionwatch.com iirc...) for them, but some of them might be corrupted.

http://fs2.kissifrot.com/index_fs.php
Theres a list of the newer FS1 campaigns, though afaict, there is only one with downloadable content...

[Nuclear1]

...and we wonder what campaign that might be.

[Dark RevenantX]

If you want to play a mod, see The Babylon Project.  You do not need FS2 to play it, though it was originally a mod for FS2.

[pyro-manic]

Question to those in the know: given the odd legal status of FS2, would posting a torrent be frowned upon?

EDIT: also, a quick ebay search turned up several copies, so you may get one for a good price...

[Hippo]

Originally posted by nuclear1
...and we wonder what campaign that might be.

But i didn't say it

[Roberto88h]

Thanks everyone.  I'll have to check out those campaigns.  Is the Babylon Project any good, I'd hate to download a huge file and find out it's really not that good.

Pyro-maniac:
If you want to show me a way to get the files I want but don't want to post them, you could always email me or send me a PM.

Hippo:
The first link you posted is dead.

Thanks. :thepimp:

[willy_principal]

Have you tried downloading it from E-Mule?

I downloaded the CD 2 when it broke...

[Hippo]

Originally posted by Roberto88h
Thanks everyone.  I'll have to check out those campaigns.  Is the Babylon Project any good, I'd hate to download a huge file and find out it's really not that good.

Pyro-maniac:
If you want to show me a way to get the files I want but don't want to post them, you could always email me or send me a PM.

Hippo:
The first link you posted is dead.

Thanks. :thepimp:

Yeah... Thats probably the wrong url... I don't actually have it bookmarked...

[Goober5000]

Hippo's first link is supposed to be http://freespace.volitionwatch.com.

As for downloadable content, while my FS1 campaign isn't done yet, I released a single mission not too long ago.
http://www.sectorgame.com/goober/ross128.html

[Dark RevenantX]

FS2 almost old enough to be considered freeware.
The marketing company, Interplay, is quite dead, rendering the game as something that is no longer in production.  Since it is not produced and is not in stores, it has no sales value, and is technically free.  If the games liscence is suddenly bought, or if Interplay suddenly is reborn or bought, the game revives its value.  If anyone was to download it past that point, they would be breaking the law.  Luckily, if you get it now, the law is not broken.

[Hippo]

Originally posted by Dark RevenantX
FS2 almost old enough to be considered freeware.
The marketing company, Interplay, is quite dead, rendering the game as something that is no longer in production.  Since it is not produced and is not in stores, it has no sales value, and is technically free.  If the games liscence is suddenly bought, or if Interplay suddenly is reborn or bought, the game revives its value.  If anyone was to download it past that point, they would be breaking the law.  Luckily, if you get it now, the law is not broken.

There was some clause in ome country that a liscence would expire after a certian number o years (5 i belive), but we have to remember that right before died, they DID re-release it, so even in their crippled state, they still have an active liscence...