[mustafa2812]

Everything works on my copy of Freespace 2/Open except the cut-scenes or movies or whatever.  What should I do and where are those files??

[The E]

How did you install FS2? From retail CDs or via GoG?

[mustafa2812]

GoG.com  and then I got Freespace Open from here

[The E]

In your FReeSpace 2 folder, there will be two folders named "data2" and "data3". Copy the contents of these folders into the "data" folder.

[mustafa2812]

Did you mean copy or cut?  Anyway I did that but the cutscenes still wont play

[The E]

Check if there are files of filetype "mve" present.

[mustafa2812]

I have them in my data 3 folder which is now in my data folder as well as being where they originally were...in my freespace 2 folder because i copied them from there to the data 3 folder

[The E]

Make sure all those files are in "data\movies"

[Mongoose]

We really should try contacting GOG.com to see if they can change that folder arrangement.

[jr2]

We really should try contacting GOG.com to see if they can change that folder arrangement.

Done.  If they respond, I'll post here.

[mustafa2812]

oh hey it worked lol thnx

[Fury]

I installed the gog.com version of FS2 today and it does create data2 and data3 folders where it puts the mve files as well as some vp files too. But the interesting thing is that FS2 is able to find and load the mve files from there. So my opening cutscene played without issues out of the box.

[jr2]

Hmm, should FSO be told to also check data2 / data3 for the files there?

List:

FOLDER   data2
FILE   11/28/2008 16:48   83,388,218   COLOSSUS.MVE   D33F21EC6DF7EB82D629B75125E3811A
FILE   11/28/2008 16:48   205,252,206   INTRO.MVE   59D0085DCF98E50D2CA49A0A2304AFB6
FILE   11/28/2008 16:48   61,605,812   MONO1.MVE   3D52C77261ACA0144F5F2D25F0A0CBEA
FILE   11/28/2008 16:49   195,887,233   tango1_fs2.vp   8CA7330CFE63329B41868EFC2E40E048
FILE   11/28/2008 16:49   25,386,260   tangoA_fs2.vp   F7F346E4C0339BA38CFF4D9D4DC663F3
FILE   11/28/2008 16:50   118,858,128   warble_fs2.vp   D1F3C39D4FE1BBD56B7B06FE66EEF4A6
TOTAL   data2\

FOLDER   data3
FILE   11/28/2008 16:54   35,637,782   BASTION.MVE   5E451EF90831DA3453696660FC4DB066
FILE   11/28/2008 16:54   83,254,536   ENDPART1.MVE   819C0AE94D9467409EE7AB530A4FC2ED
FILE   11/28/2008 16:55   43,984,802   ENDPRT2A.MVE   08677EFE8264A495DB2D90CC7B1CE756
FILE   11/28/2008 16:55   43,963,654   ENDPRT2B.MVE   ED0E8CD99EE7534141ABDADEAFB8C828
FILE   11/28/2008 16:54   55,612,204   MONO2.MVE   EFB555B01A54B138A52342EF23729305
FILE   11/28/2008 16:54   53,939,080   MONO3.MVE   B76FA014C89A14D268B19B130C96BE3D
FILE   11/28/2008 16:54   59,796,474   MONO4.MVE   EA031404C39AFF2973B80240178751A2
FILE   11/28/2008 16:55   72,778,161   tango2_fs2.vp   6FB6E9A36248980540155A9777C51C47
FILE   11/28/2008 16:55   50,497,261   tango3_fs2.vp   D42C20B6FFB4782E431899C211AE55C4
FILE   11/28/2008 16:55   85,907,413   tangoB_fs2.vp   532FC3F8B68F19B062C18DAFC67BC966
FILE   11/28/2008 16:56   118,858,128   warble_fs2.vp   D1F3C39D4FE1BBD56B7B06FE66EEF4A6
TOTAL   data3\

EDIT: Got a reply from a GOG rep...

Re: FreeSpace2 cutscenes

FROM:
GOG Support
 
TO:
<e-mail_removed>@yahoo.com
Message flagged Thursday, November 3, 2011 5:41 AMMessage body
 
-- Hello,

Unfortunately there is no possibility to move movie files into a different folder. The way games are arranged is made to work them in a best possible way. What's more please do not follow the suggestions from the unofficial releases, as our games are based on officially  released versions.
---
Regards

JuriJ
GOG.com Support

[Wobble73]

Will the retail GOG version find the cutscenes if they are moved to where they originally where in retail? If not then I suggest we make the SCP find them where GOG puts them, after all one of the original aims of the SCP was not to break retail and GOG is the new retail.

[jr2]

Can FSO scan data2 and data3 as if they were data?  I'm just not sure whether not being able to find the other files located there will cause problems for GOG folks... tango & warble .vp files