• Dnamro
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Re: Thoughts onreleasing the BF2142 game engine for use with First Strike?

The breakthrough was finding out the the hacked BF2142.exe that bypasses the master account server check also unhooks the origin version of BF2142 from Origin.  Since the biggest problem that users are running into is the error message that a newer version already exists when trying to patch a disk version, this bypasses that issue completely since the Origin version is already patched.

Once I get the installer set up for the stand alone version, we can get players to test it out.    After we have a confirmed working version, we can then approach server hosts about First Strike events.

  • mechag2
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Re: Thoughts onreleasing the BF2142 game engine for use with First Strike?

Oh boy, I hope this works! Exciting news. big_smile *fingers crossed*

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  • From: Canada
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Re: Thoughts onreleasing the BF2142 game engine for use with First Strike?

I'll be testing for sure. I need some FS in my life. It would be great to get some mp games going eventually. People would come back. I still play GC on saturdays with about 12-16 people so it can be done!

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Re: Thoughts onreleasing the BF2142 game engine for use with First Strike?

Super pumped tester reporting for duty !!!!!!!!

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Re: Thoughts onreleasing the BF2142 game engine for use with First Strike?

Yeah, it would be great to get multiplayer working again, especially since the last full release had some epic multiplayer maps that only saw limited use. Would be great to see a couple of fully populated Parmel Invasion rounds. Not to mention Dathomir Prison Break.

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  • Jackroy
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Re: Thoughts onreleasing the BF2142 game engine for use with First Strike?

I'll help any way I can, I've got a few machines now that I can test on if that would be helpful.

Looking forward to the return of FS smile

  • Dnamro
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Re: Thoughts onreleasing the BF2142 game engine for use with First Strike?

I will definitely take up your offers for testing.

I figured out how to get the launcher utility to work with the stand alone version.  The launcher gets the location of BF2142 from the registry and I was able to manually change that location in the registry and have the launcher start the stand alone version, in it's new location.    I can get the installer to  update the registry with new location of launcher but that will post problems with running BF2142, if someone wants to use it along with of after installing First Strike.  Too bad we can't get in touch with the guy that made the launcher.  It would be better to have a version of the launcher that gets the location of the stand alone version instead of BF2142 so there would not be any conflicts.   This is because I would have the installer set up a registry entry as if BF2142 was installed but pointing to the BF2142 engine location in the stand alone version.