[sh0dan]

Thanks stealth; yes indeed, it starts off looking fairly convincing and then crashes out with a "099786400" error.

Ahh yes, 099786400, of course...

Thanks anyway. Perhaps some md5sums would be a good idea?

http://www.md5summer.org/download.html

[Stealth]

well it's worked for the one guy that tried downloading it... (see the first page).

karajorma made some suggestions, and they worked for someone having a similar problem to you.  also, check the first page.

[sh0dan]

i could open installshield .cabs with Zipscan, but couldn't extract files from data1.cab, so i supposed it was corrupt. Redownloaded it, extracted the iso's under linux, and installed the lot from a directory. Worked a treat... thanks very much for hosting those files!

One odd thing was that iso3 (only) stored the files in 8.3 format, so that tango2_fs2.vp came out as tango2~1.vp, which the installer then didn't recognise. Easily fixed, but strange that it did that - you re-imaged the third iso didnt you? did you do it differently from the others?

Now i'm just finding out how many of the SCP additions I can run with my voodoo3 cel600 system without grinding to a halt...

[quite a lot, it seems ]

Is Silent threat an add-on, or standalone extra?

[kasperl]

add-on to FS1. A very, very crappy one at that.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by sh0dan

One odd thing was that iso3 (only) stored the files in 8.3 format, so that tango2_fs2.vp came out as tango2~1.vp, which the installer then didn't recognise. Easily fixed, but strange that it did that - you re-imaged the third iso didnt you? did you do it differently from the others?

no, i didn't.  i realized my one CD was corrupt, so i took another copy of FS2 that i own, and made an ISO copy using the same program, method, etc.  anyone else had a problem with that?

And yes, as kasperl said, Silent Threat is for FS1.  i just uploaded it because a few people showed interest in it.

[Swamp_Thing]

Can anyone explain what "tangoA.vp" and "tangoB.vp" are for?? When opened with VPView, i get a data text file, wich can´t be opened (due to size, maybe?).
Had to reinstall FS2, and now my CD3 is acting up. Says i can´t read one of the .vp´s!! Had to install without the briefing anims to work...  


I guess i better make a new set of copies for backup.

[karajorma]

They are on the ISOs?

If you're using the HotU version you'll also have two files called tangoA_fs2.vp and tangoB_fs2.vp

AFAIK both are from the HotU build and are dummy files

[Swamp_Thing]

Yes, they are. I d/l the .iso´s and burned them onto CDs. Too bad i deleted the images after...
Well, then i suppose i was wrong about what version i have of FS2. I always thought he Hotu version came only with the low-res graphics, and since i have them i thought i had the retail version.
I always play in 1024x 768, wich i thought the Hotu version couldn´t do...
Anyway, the problem is in the tango2_fs.vp, and i got the exact same error message posted in the first page of the thread. Strange thing is, it always worked until now! The only thing i have diferent since the last time i had it working, was that i enabled S-ATA support in my Bios settings, to allow me to run the S-ATA HDD i just bought. But i can´t see how that would screw up the install... unless it has something to do with my DVD drives, that have been acting up ever since. They fail to get detected by the system if i keep an image mounted on Daemon Tools.
Oh well...

[Stealth]

i don't know what to tell you man.  the ISOs worked for other people that downloaded them.  tell me if you find a problem for sure, and i'll upload a correct(ed) ISO i guess.  i too always thought tangoA and tangoB were HOTU's issues... i guarantee you i have no idea how they found their way onto the ISOs because i never have used HOTU, and probably  never will use it for anything Freespace related.  

did anyone try downloading all three ISOs and have NO problems with them?  anyone download them and have partial problems, but get it to work anyway?  and if so, could you post what you did to fix these problems.

[Swamp_Thing]

My iso.s are diferent. I got them from eDonkey, about a year ago. It´s not the one´s you posted.
 I think i got it wrong when Karajorma asked me if they were in the iso´s. He probably was asking if it was in the iso´s posted here, and i answered yes, when i should have pointred out wich iso´s i have and where i got them from. Sorry.

[Stealth]

oooh ok.  no problem, no need to apologize

you just had me worried for a second

[jabibbins]

Thank you very very very much, my CD1 has been broken for about 2 years now and I can finally play FS2 again!!!  Thank you Thank you!!!

[Hippo]

Wait... they're still up?

[Kosh]

Yes, they are still up.

[Hippo]

oh... I'll have to grab them friday night then...

[Konrad35]

Ok , i downloaded all three iso`s , and installed fs2 using deamon tools, but game doesn`t start . Game folder size is 1.289 MB , and there are no *.mve files. I pushed fs2.exe or freespace2.exe and nothing happend.Where is the problem ?

P.S Sorry for my english , but i`m from Poland , And thanks to Stealth for Iso`s

[Kosh]

I have been trying to dl iso3 for a couple of days now. Everytime it always just stops somewhere at the beginning and just sits there.

[tyba1982]

I'm having trouble downloading the ISO's... but once I do so I'll seed a torrent and post the link in this thread since there seemed to be some interest in distributing this with bittorrent from a while back...

[pavello]

If anyone is interested, I found FS2 on a bittorent at The Pirate Bay site. Just search for freespace.

Torrent file list:

Freespace 2 Readme.txt 0.16 KB
Freespace2_1 - prototype24.bin 697.90 MB
Freespace2_1 - prototype24.cue 0.32 KB
Freespace2_2 - prototype24.bin 782.45 MB
Freespace2_2 - prototype24.cue 0.32 KB
Freespace2_3 - prototype24.bin 772.16 MB
Freespace2_3 - prototype24.cue 0.32 KB
fs21x-12.exe 1.05 MB
fs2cd120.EXE 195.01 KB
fs2cd120.zip 98.93 KB

Does anyone know if these disks are good working copies?

I started downloading but I'm only on dialup so going very slow!

[Swamp_Thing]

I wouldn´t post that here, if i were you...