[theoddone33]

Originally posted by RandomTiger
Good question. If anyone actually manages to crack MVE it will annoy interplay something chronic and make them think twice about allowing games companys to release code for 'dead' games.

The code was reverse engineered from Baldur's Gate, a closed source game, sometime last year.  Absolutely nothing about this has anything to do with releasing code.

[RandomTiger]

You have confused me. Are you agreeing and argueing with me at the same time?

1. We are only interested in MVE code because we have FS code
2. Interplay dont want us to have this code
3. They dont want us to crack it because that has implications for other products.

I would have thought Volition would have to run a code releasing decision like that by Interplay. Usually the publishing company owns the code writen by the software house dont they?

So if we annoy them by cracking MVE then they will put this kind of thing down as a bad experience and not do it again.

[theoddone33]

Originally posted by RandomTiger
You have confused me. Are you agreeing and argueing with me at the same time?

It seemed that you were implying that MVE was cracked as the result of Interplay releasing code.  It's this implication that I disagree with.

[RandomTiger]

Has it *been* cracked?
I didnt know that, can you give me any links for details on that?

[theoddone33]

Originally posted by RandomTiger
Has it *been* cracked?
I didnt know that, can you give me any links for details on that?

A fully-functional MVE decoder was recently discovered, however it was designed to play only 8bpp MVEs.  A friend of mine has modified this version to play the MVEs from Descent 3, Freespace 1, and Freespace 2.

Here is the relevant info:
http://ml.warpcore.org/descent-source/200207/msg00032.html

[Inquisitor]

Off to subscribe to icculus.

Be nice if they would come here anmd say hi

As for the other stuff, it's dead tech.

(duh, sorry theoddone, you are from icculus).

We're done with this, move on