[Akalabeth Angel]

Hey guys,

   "First off, yah yah, retail is so obsolete. No one plays it anymore. Akalabeth, Dont waste your time using Fred2 to do retail  missions, etcetera etcetera."

   Now that I saved you all some time from typing that, I wonder, if I did up some missions using Fred2.1 retail (or whatever the updated is) and stuck them in a VP with VPMage or QuickVP, would a person running FSOpen just be able to slap this into their directory and start playing? The VP would have some new models, ship tables, etcetera to go with it. Not just missions.

   Or, are there some compability issues between the two versions? Obviously Open wont play on Retail, but one would think the opposite would be true. Might put up a few missions in the near future and was wanting to avoid hiccups before hand to save myself some work. Because I really hate doing revisions

[Unknown Target]

One of the main goals of the SCP was always to maintain retail compatibility - if you make a mod for basic Freespace 2 it should work with FSO just fine.

[Macfie]

One of the main goals of the SCP was always to maintain retail compatibility - if you make a mod for basic Freespace 2 it should work with FSO just fine.

Sometimes the use of custom tables created in basic Freespace 2 will result in parsing errors.  So mods created in basic Freespace 2 will not always work with FSO.  However usually they only require some minor tweaking to get them to work.

[Wanderer]

Tables made for retail tend to have loads of errors... Which is why they dont work properly in SCP and cause parsing errors... On the other hand they shouldn't have worked properly (or rather work but may crash) on retail either.