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I just found the proof that you're right. I have a savegame which gives instantly the lord mike vonx mission when i start the game with cd 3 set. The strange thing is, when the savegame is loaded, the P.A.D. opens instantly on the planet to offer the mission instead of waiting to deliver it as...

I just tested it with the Mission from Senator Ames, where i've got a savegame just before the mission occurs. Regardless which cd was set in CD.dat (i even tested 4 and 0), i always got the E-Mail when i loaded the savegame, started from the planet and flew for about 30 seconds - 1 minute...

Me too. I was never able to finish this. Even with a Military Dreadnought as my freighter and all defending messineo destroyer changed into dreadnoughts as well, i've always lost. The stolen military transports simply have too much firepower and armor to be destroyed fast enough, before...

What about these? To create animations of the ingame shown weapons could be a quite time consuming job.

Thank you HCl. As soon as i've find some time i'll give it a test and start creating a user friendly editor for the files. Also thanks for finding the .net zlib library. @AD: I just found this: xmi2mid a quote from a different forum (here)

This is great news HCl. Thank you. :D Yep, this would be great. I could then directly convert it into C#, add it to the priv2editor and enhance it this way with a file-editing section. Oh, this is great. I can't wait to finally have access to the raw data of priv2 and maybe be even able to...

I see, another disassembling expert :D Coming from the C&C modding community, i'm quite familiar with this kind of elite modders. Thanks AD for forwarding my question and thanks HCl for the answer. I'm eager so get more info on the various P2 filetypes. :)

I don't know how accurate that source is, but according to this forum it's "Duodecaplyatomate" (without the l after "ply")

No, but a much clearer pronunciation :p and i think the voices are also much louder against the background noises than in the english version. So it's a lot easier to hear what they say imo. @Aginor: there are no subtitles in the german version either.

You mean Duodecaplatylonat? At least that's the name in the german version. As a shortcut Dimitri says "Duodec" in the german version.

I just noticed in Mtextr.txt of the privateer 2 text files, that there is a ship named "Sulako". Can someone tell me where in the game this ship appears? Since there is also a string "Aliens?" in the game (see planet name here), I somehow get the impression there might be a hidden mission with...

Well if he can point me in the right direction (code snippet), i think i can come up with the rest. It's just that i have absolutely no clue how he found out the right hex values for e.g. table1 in his Priv2 TGV audio decompressor or some of the other algorithms operating principles.

I would like to know how he found out the algorithm just out of interest (a simple trial and error would surely have taken ages). Though beside of that a code example to extract every file format would be really great. I would then enhance my Priv2Editor with a File-modding section that gives...

While working on the new privateer 2 editor "News section" (yes, editing the current news and the planet which is affected is possible now :D), i noticed that the ingame used text slightly differs from the text wcnews has posted here. e.g. on the news "For the Ser About System... The Tweedle...

yep. They even have the same filenames as in the P2_Archive.zip, which has the geometry in 3ds and the textures as gif. So an experience decoder should be actually able to compare the files and find the correct compression algorithm, to uncompress/decode the used iff files. Damn, it would be...

maybe you mistake it with the text that is shown when you have to make a plot choice and lev arris speaks this text. Other than that there are no subtitles afaik. (though maybe there's a hidden key that can be set to have them)

Yes, the fat files are definitely the priv2 audio format. In one of my posts above, i did something similar and found a quite decent solution to convert the fat audio files. let me quote myself.

I had this archive already and the included pad1.wav is unfortunately only some background sound. What i mean is the following file ;) (recorded with dosbox, background noise removed with audacity) Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/448450568/PAD.wav Though a higher quality would be nice

I checked out the VIFF.exe (thanks for the download link btw), but unfortunately it didn't help me further. Because it can't uncompress the chunks (neither extracting them) and i also haven't found a converter to convert the chunks into a common picture or readable text format.

Can you give me a link to this VIFF tool? Mario Brito wrote in the comments of his bigf privateer 2 extractor tool that the compression of privateer 2 and wingcommander is in some cases very similar but in others totally incompatible/different (e.g. zlib for some of the priv2 files). Maybe the...