[pyro-manic]

Originally posted by DiabloTerrorGF
I found it at my local EBG for $5.

You utter bastard.

I haven't found a copy for less than £25 anywhere on the intarweb, and most shop staff have never even heard of it...

By the way:

[Charismatic]

Quick offside question: EBG?

maby i need to find one somewhere by me..

Edit: How the hell do they Still have a copy of FS2 in a box.. concitering how old the game is..

[Taristin]

EB Games. Parent store of EBX. EB being Electronics boutique (or however it's spelled)

[Getter Robo G]

FYI Last I know my work made 500 copies of Fs2 for schoolpop.com Nov of 2003 OEM bundled software version (label is only diff on disks) but they sold them retail..

[Steel]

Kara...,
I have version 3.6.5 and the cutscenes work for me.  To confirm, the file I run is fs2_open_T-20050103.exe, and when I am in the game menu it says 3.6.5 (fs2_open)...

I did make my own though.  They may be a tiny bit higher quality than yours - not sure.  They are encoded with DivX WMA Audio V2 and DivX MPEG-4 Fast-Motion.  They are a bit larger than yours.  I also fixed the chirp at the beginning of the intro - well not really fixed, but edited it out since it is right at the beginning.

A couple of folks in our group are interested in MP, so I got the stuff recommended in the thread at Game Warden.  The new PXO config file, 20050103 build, and the tables.  I also did the cutscenes so we could train and play the stock campaign, and then bundled it all into one zip for for our folks ease of use/install.

Now a question or two for the general populace here, since we are pretty much newbies too...

Should we use version 3.6.6 or should we just wait for version 3.6.7, or stick with 3.6.5?

Should we consider the media vp's?  or do they mess up multiplayer?  I understand it does so only because of lag on the computers???  Are they still available for 3.6.5?

Can we play the stock campaign coop?  Any others?

Thx all!

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Steel
Kara...,
I have version 3.6.5 and the cutscenes work for me.  To confirm, the file I run is fs2_open_T-20050103.exe, and when I am in the game menu it says 3.6.5 (fs2_open)...

When I say 3.6.5 I mean the offiical release. Taylors 3rd January is considered by most to be a bug fixed version of 3.6.5 and is basically the build I'd reccomend everyone gets instead of 3.6.5.

Originally posted by Steel
I did make my own though.  They may be a tiny bit higher quality than yours - not sure.  They are encoded with DivX WMA Audio V2 and DivX MPEG-4 Fast-Motion.

Problem with WMA is that as far as I know it leaves the linux users out in the cold. IIRC I used mp3 on the grounds that every can use that.

Originally posted by Steel
They are a bit larger than yours.  I also fixed the chirp at the beginning of the intro - well not really fixed, but edited it out since it is right at the beginning.

Did you manage to get rid of the error at the end too? Personally I'm not too fussed about that one. It sounds like Shivan communications or something so it just makes the intro spookier

Originally posted by Steel
Should we use version 3.6.6 or should we just wait for version 3.6.7, or stick with 3.6.5?

I'd stick to Taylor's build for the time being. It's very stable. The only reason to change is when it begins to be become incompatible with the new stuff the SCP are constantly adding to the VP files.
 

Originally posted by Steel
Should we consider the media vp's?  or do they mess up multiplayer?  I understand it does so only because of lag on the computers???  Are they still available for 3.6.5?

The 3.6.6 VPs are better organised than the 3.6.5 ones. I'd stay away from the latter or you'll probably find yourself having to deal with missing files all the time.

Originally posted by Steel
Can we play the stock campaign coop?  Any others?

A co-op version of the main campaign is included in the 3.6.6 mv_core.vp

[Steel]

Thx kara...you are helpful as always.

I see - i did not know there was a difference in the 3.6.5 versions.  The end of the intro just blacked out for me on conversion, so i also cut it off the end.  i wonder if i can capture it in the original, and then paste it in.  got it on the encoding - this stuff is new to me.  maybe i can take another crack and find one that is across the board compatible (being a heavy linux user myself...at least for work purposes).

Can we use the 3.6.6 media vp's with Taylor's 3.6.5 build?

Nice in the coop in the media vp's...

[Fenrir]

You kind of HAVE to use the 3.6.6 vp's with the 3.6.5 (and related) builds since there actually is no 3.6.6 build. So use the 3.6.6 ones.

[achtung]

I still haven't got the cutscenes to work right Iv'e tried the latest builds and the cutscenes appear in the upper left hand corner of the screen about the size of the post reply button on this page.

[Hippo]

mantis it

[Steel]

what happens if you play them outside of the game?

[achtung]

Originally posted by Hippo
mantis it

heh?  

[knn]

Originally posted by Swantz


heh?  

The bug reporting tool of FS2_open is called mantis (it`s in the launcher)

[achtung]

ooooo ok.

[Goober5000]

Mantis is down at the moment.  Go here instead.

[Fenrir]

I've had that problem with the cutscenes for a long time, and I finally managed to kill it by uninstalling all things Divx and reinstalling only the codec. Apparently having the player installed was creating some sort of conflict.

[achtung]

My problem?

[achtung]

Originally posted by Steel
what happens if you play them outside of the game?

Works fine.

[Steel]

did you try the trick fenrir mentioned?  do you have extraneous players installed?  or the divx player?

other than that i would be stumped...  

[Fenrir]

Originally posted by Swantz
My problem?

Yeah, that one. Just uninstal Divx and reinstall only the codec. I did that by googling it and getting the bundlepack thing, but only choosing to install the mpg4decoder, or whatever it's called.