I've started to clean up the code, mostly removing unused parts and commented out stuff.

If we're planning on ditching the old updater method (which we should, cause it was a pretty fragile process) then there's really not much to it other than keeping launch options stored, and you know, actually launching the game..

Anyway I'll upload it soon, but I might just try to redesign the whole thing.

Neko,

Great to have your help on the launcher.  Definitely want to ditch the updater.  It was useful when First Strike was an active multiplayer mod to make sure everyone had the same version.  Like you said, getting the public update to kick off was always troublesome.   

The main thing is to be able to get it work with a stand alone version of First Strike.   I was thinking that I can make the installer for the stand alone version set a path in the registry, but the launcher appears to look for the BF2142 path.   I thought about setting the BF2142 path to the stand alone version location, but this creates a conflict if BF2142 is installed or they want to install it in the future.   If the launcher could be changed to pick up the path from the registry entry that I would set with the stand alone installer to something like:

HK LM\Software\First Strike\Path

Just to be clear.  My intent is to release First Strike as a stand alone by including the game engine files needed to play.  To that end, we don't need the news ticker either, but a nice graphic would be good.  I want to set up First Strike so that it can be enjoyed as a singleplayer game for the foreseeable future.

Sever browsing is done as normal in PR, not launcher based.

They've removed all the filters so it's hard to say for sure how it's done, but I'm pretty sure they've got their own master server list which the game is reading from. I'm not sure what the state of BF2 is in terms of server lists, it's possible they are reporting to some other list (either way, they've had to change where it's being queried from) and it purely displays what's available based on hard-set filters.  Thats a separate task tho