unless they made jets less imortal

They did, but the problem was not what everyone seems to think it was. It was the orientation of the jets that made them bad. Even the fighters dominated air to ground combat so much. Both types of jets should have given the pilot a specifically air to air roll. For the bomber, only the second seat weapons operator should have controlled ground weapons. A balance like that would mean 1/20 of the air to ground kills in a normal game, but still realistically powerful jets. a multimillion dollar weapon should not be easy prey to infantry.

And if you find it, write the code on the box and disc.

Use marker, not a ball point pen. I found that out the hard way. The game data is usually burned into the bottom of the label, so if you etch the label you ruin the disk.

Found it! Smart me!

or not. It had been lying on my desk, under some old papers I never needed anymore, the whole damned time.

After 4 months

I had a moment like that with 2142 . OhmygoodnesswherethehelldidIputitIcan'tbelieveIlostit. You get the idea. Somehow it had worked its way into the PC casing. I only found it when I was installing a new kick-ass graphics card, but don't get me started...

As for that CD-Key txt file, kudos to you! I'm doing that right now with all my games.

or not. It had been lying on my desk, under some old papers I never needed anymore, the whole damned time.

But yes, the ".txt CD Key registry" idea is really good. It'd also be nice if the devs printed the CD/DVD-keys directly onto the game disc, like the Silent Hunter III people did. It means that to install you have to insert the disk, remove it and type in the key when prompted to, and then re-insert the disc, but it puts an end to "no installation due to missing manual" blues.

Not that I know.

Did I ask you?

I don't think using the SF code will work. You may have to buy another copy of bf2...

Reminds me of when my room-mate bought counterstrike source and there was no cd-key printed on the intruction manual. He had forgotten to get a recite, too.

And if you find it, write the code on the box and disc.

I have no idea.

So far so good. I open the setup program, which lets me choose between "Modify", which'd reinstall the game, and "Remove", which'd uninstall the last fragments of it from last time. I hit... "Remove":rolleyes:.

Now I'm left with a game I can't install because in order to do so I need the serial number printed on the back of the manual, which is somewhere else in my house.

Can someone explain to me why I didn't just hit "Modify" and let the game install?