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Re: Hi everyone. This is amazing.

Post by Pepsi-Wolf »

i'm sure finding the right programmers, or even the original programmers, for mech2 wont be an easy task anyways
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I actualy Googled up one of the programmers not too long ago; Bill Ferrer, he's still around and ticking, but he looks like he's 50 or so and has a short grey beard and mustache. He has a website and it appears he's more interested in geneology rather than programming. :?
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These are all important questions.

We have been in contact with Eric Repomancer and Dan Kegel. Both have offered advice on MW2.

I have contacted Activision regarding obtaining an offical license to the MW2 source code, but I have not received an answer. I'm making progress with accessing the MW2 file formats, but a few open problems remain: textures, videos, room definitions for the shell, and there were some problems remaining with the SFL sound files. I am confident that these problems can be overcome. Once they are solved, I can start recreating MW2 completely. I would prefer creating levels for MechVM to modding MW2, because if we would get there, it would be easier.

If MW5 would mean that I can't continue working on MechVM, then I don't want it. However, if MechVM reaches a point where this would be an option, I could imagine negotiating about commercial content with the copyright owners.
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At last! My collection is complete! Ghost Bear's Legacy finally arrived in the mail and am enjoying it more than I thought I would. I'm playing them on my VirtualPC, of course, but as I'm trying to get them on my DOSBOX on VISTA, my only issue is: when making the image, should I make a game disc and copy as if it were protected, or not?
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Congrats! :)
But no, you just make a regular game disk copy. It's not protected or anything.
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Well, it might not always work on non protected.. there does appear to be some protection (who knows) on mercenaries for many people... it does not work on non protected.
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That's odd... I had no problem with my .IMG under non-protected.
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What in God’s name are you talking about? I’m what way does your comment have anything to do with this post, which for the record is 10 GOLDEN YEARS OLD!?
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