Get To Know the Privateer 2 Background Plates (June 26, 2023)

[Bandit LOAF]

Let's start the week off by DARKENING the day! Thanks to AD, we've extracted all of the background plates for Privateer 2's gameflow screens. Let's take a tour of the Tri-System. Here's the starting planet HERMES and the SINNERS INN tavern (home of Joe the Bartender)!






CRIUS, the medical planet! It has a record-setting four plates: one for the landing area, one for the SURGEON'S BLUNDER BAR and then two related to the story (CRIUS HOSPITAL and SHERNIKOV MEDICAL EQUIPMENT).





ANHUR, the first planet in the system to be settled. We've got the spaceport and the SHADOW PLAY BAR plus INTERPLANETARY AID from the storyline.





BEX, the center of the system's beer-themed religion. These aren't cathedrals, it's a spaceport and the BLESSED BREW BAR!





Here's HEPHAESTUS with the RAMPANT ROBOT BAR *and* the GALACTIC GOURMET HOTEL/BAR. I bet one of these was originally intended for Janus IV!





Here are the three planets that don't have bars: HADES, JANUS IV and KARATIKUS.





All four types of space stations! (Equipment, Repair, Commodity and Super)





Finally, the system's ten moons share five sets of gameflow screens. This isn't even to save space, since each is stored twice on the disc. But to be fair, you never noticed so. This is ATHOS and OSTINIA.





CORINTHIAS and DESOLIA





DESTINAS and PETRA





LEVIATHA and MASSANAS (isn't that in Virginia?)





Finally, SERCA and TERREL!





That's it for Privateer 2's gameflow screens. Interesting to note that it's roughly the same overall number you get in the original Privateer but distributed very differently. And boy are they cool looking!

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Original update published on June 26, 2023

 

[ParadiseRegaind]

Let's start the week off by DARKENING the day! Thanks to AD, we've extracted all of the background plates for Privateer 2's gameflow screens. Let's take a tour of the Tri-System. Here's the starting planet HERMES and the SINNERS INN tavern (home of Joe the Bartender)!






CRIUS, the medical planet! It has a record-setting four plates: one for the landing area, one for the SURGEON'S BLUNDER BAR and then two related to the story (CRIUS HOSPITAL and SHERNIKOV MEDICAL EQUIPMENT).





ANHUR, the first planet in the system to be settled. We've got the spaceport and the SHADOW PLAY BAR plus INTERPLANETARY AID from the storyline.





BEX, the center of the system's beer-themed religion. These aren't cathedrals, it's a spaceport and the BLESSED BREW BAR!





Here's HEPHAESTUS with the RAMPANT ROBOT BAR *and* the GALACTIC GOURMET HOTEL/BAR. I bet one of these was originally intended for Janus IV!





Here are the three planets that don't have bars: HADES, JANUS IV and KARATIKUS.





All four types of space stations! (Equipment, Repair, Commodity and Super)





Finally, the system's ten moons share five sets of gameflow screens. This isn't even to save space, since each is stored twice on the disc. But to be fair, you never noticed so. This is ATHOS and OSTINIA.





CORINTHIAS and DESOLIA





DESTINAS and PETRA





LEVIATHA and MASSANAS (isn't that in Virginia?)





Finally, SERCA and TERREL!





That's it for Privateer 2's gameflow screens. Interesting to note that it's roughly the same overall number you get in the original Privateer but distributed very differently. And boy are they cool looking!

--
Original update published on June 26, 2023

My SIL lives in Manassas, VA. Probably what you're thinking of with Massanas.

Cool screens! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Bob McDob]

How are the animations stored? Some of the planets have animations on the background, as opposed to characters.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

They're stored just like the gumps in the original Privateer... unfortunately the extractor tool we have right now doesn't get the palettes right.