I had about 3-4 upload errors with files like /content/lastbat/lascap.0.Y=200.png. Seems to be fatx related. I hope those are not really important.

Anyways, SC2x is another good example of how game experience changes with its platform. Star control seems to be made for the livingroom and big tv and a relaxing couch. :> Had this feeling with all Lucasfilm games as well. Great Port, Joker!

Thanks Joker, I'm enjoying the hell outta this classic game.

As far as bugs go, I think I may of found one. When I returned to my homeworld of Vela, there is an Ur-Quan vessel in orbit around the newly slave sheilded world. When you approach the Ur-Quan ship it replayed the drone message from the beginning of the game when you approached the earth. If memory serves me correct, there was a battle with an Ur-Quan ship, not a repeat of a previous message. Thanks!

Hi friends,I´m from Spain and i can´t play SC2.I have SmartXX.I search file for execute with XBMC and when it start the screen get black.I am installing in E:/SC2x root but i cant play the game.


Sorry for my English.


Bye

BTW, I posted before that Fwifo was not apearing at pluto, but I checked again and found him there... sorry about that.

The multiplayer bug is still there (where both pads controll the same ship in a vs game), I want to know if someone else have that problem or if that is just I problem I have (configuration Maybe).

Thanks.

Javitole, no se por que tengas ese problema pero probablemente tenga que ver con el BIOS que tenga programado tu modchip o algun setup de tu dashboard.

A mi me funciona bien, y esto es lo que yo tengo:

Xbox V1.1
Bios 4981
Dashboards Avalaunch/Evolution X/ Unleash X

Hi again.This weekend I´ll try to put a diferent bios on xbox.

Thanks again.


Mexpack,gracias por contestarme haber si este fin de semana pruebo otra bios.Tengo actualmente una xbox 1.6 con hd de origen y el smartXX con el evox metido.

Dos preguntillas rapidas:

¿Juegas desde cd rom o disco duro?
Si es en disco duro,¿en que unidad y directorio metes el juego?


Recibe un cordial saludo.

1.- Disco duro
2.- F:\Homebrew\Star Control 2

You can put the folder in any particion (E or F) and rename is as whatever you preffer. I have not tested it yet, but I do not see a reason of why the game would not run from the DVD drive.

The important thing is that you have the proper default.xbe. just grab the files from the link posted a few messages before in this topic, just run the aplication that will download the needed files and prepare the game, and transfer it to your xbox in a folder. that was all that I did.

Suerte.

jaw drops.

Rock on, guys. I'm sure there's even more news if I read on. :-D



I read on. Eeee! it's out! *runs* doesn't walk to "the usual places"
Thanks a MILLION guys!

Damn. It must be fun to finish a product port like that. :-)
off to download and play!!!!

Weird.
This game wasn't in "the usual places" <It should be!>
So, I had to read the whole thread. :-)
But I found out where to get it.


http://www.crusaders.no/~joker/sc2/

just in case a few of you missed it.

David

The fact that its more than 100mb, plus its still unfinished even after all this time has means there is no way its going onto xbins. Hopefully, when its finished TJs magic downloader batch file package will get put on xbins along with the source code.

EDIT: I actually have most of the bugs sorted out, I just need to catch up with TJ sometime in the near future just to make sure we are done.

Thanks Mexpac I´ll try to do what yo say.



Thanks again..

i talked to iriez a while ago and he was pleasantly surprised a working version of this was even released.

a very easy way to host this on xbins (more for availability of it, and the publicity it would put out, i think people need to know of this great classic) would be to host just the batch file (wich downloads from sourceforge) and the only illegal file, the default.xbe

So the scene isn't quite dead after all!

it's been a few months without any news on this... how's it coming along?

Is there any chance of an open beta test?

heres a simple way make a ppf patch of the excuteable it might turn out bigger than the exe but you can atleast host it on xbins

the .xbe is very small, not bigger than any other xapp

the chunk is all the data files, wich are freely hosted on sourceforge anyways

Except the movies are not there Are they free?

hello


yea, movies are free - but they are very large.



Actually, that encounter is without combat, I beat the game with walkthrough on the pc version before I started playing on the xbox version.



To be honest, I had completely forgotten about this project at all. My personal life came sneaking behind me and gave me a nice son that can take over my projects in a few years. But that's not going to stop me from coding, so I'll see if I can manage to put out a new xbe and maybe kick out the sources within a week or so.
I might put up a extra cvs for it here at my place, and ask users to mail me for access or something. Gonna check the updates tmaul did tonight and put up a new xbe or something. I asked Iriez a few months ago if we could put up the game on xbins, and he said it was too big - it already took too much bandwidth, so we can't put it up there.


-The Joker

We have a few options to puting it on xbins:

-make it so the xbe runs with the pc packs and tell s users to downlaod the pc packs from sourceforge.

-just put the xbe on xbinx and gives instructions on hwo to make xiso file.

How does one get a copy of the source files ? I wouldreally hate having a harddisk incident and / or personal life make the work lost.


Thanks for the hard work

Zefrench

Any update on those bug fixes? I really want 2 player melee.

Is this game ported with the help of the official MS XDK? If yes, then please remove the download-URL's. I will contact a moderator about this if the URL's aren't removed.

Any updates? I'm hoping this is dead

I've found (some?) of the movies:
http://www.classicgaming.com/starcontrol/3do/

It links to shitty file planet and you have to register to be able to download... does anyone have the movies? I'm wondering if these are all of them.... I think not. From memory the movie pak was a few hundred megs? I only have the intro, outro and credits. What else is there?

And I assume I just unzip them and rezip them into the correct filename - which is what? I know you need to then change it from .zip to .uqm

wow this looks really cool...
any hope of an update?

They've released 0.5 of the source. Would an updated binary be possible?

bat file from jokers site auto downloaded the movies from SF

the version i got also has the button mapping problem where u couldnt use main weapon only special attack.

ive been playing on and off, but ive been thru 2/3 of the game with no problems.



i may make a torrent of the good version i got after i check if jokers site is down. i wont say where i post it, but it shouldnt be hard to find if you really want it.

Good version? Do you mean you have a newer build that fixes some issues, like the not-being-able-to-fire?

If so, an xbe torrent would be all that's required.

just checked, and joker's site is still up

so just get it http://www.crusaders.no/~joker/sc2/ then run the .bat and it'll download and build everything for you

i think the fire problem was only inside the keys.cfg, and the one presently on joker's site works fine.

em so is this a full working thing?

I cant believe I never heard about this I love and own this game and a working 3do. I believe i have the star map and booklet from the game and a walkthrough.

dl right now cant wait to try it out thanks a millions guys this is fantasic

I ran into the bug that was brought up about remining a planet. I can remine any planet as many times as i want. Im trying not to remine but its hard when you start moving through the game.

Stop cheating jerk!!

*goes back to using the save game editor on the pc version*

i say i was trying not to the only planet i done it to so far is plutoX2, but i think i will get out my 3DO and play the OG 4 awhile.

Can someone please help me with a resolution problem? I have the game working on my xbox, but part of the top is offscreen! This makes it so you can't see the names of galaxies and stuff, which makes it IMPOSSIBLE to get back to the Milky Way after traveling through Hyperspace! Can someone please help!

Anyone here get these Ur Quan movies? It seems big, but would be a nice idea to seed it in a well know bittorrents sites out there ... btw I'm a little lost in the game (don't know where to go) but the never ending remining bug makes the game very easy

DAMN! i cannot tell you how f'ing awesome it is to play SC2 again. esp with 3do music and speech with no (or hardly any) loading times. compared to waiting 5 seconds for the pkunks respawn on the 3do version, this is a godsend.
quick question tho - i know that the pc version let you cycle between different audiopacks (orig/3do, etc). is there any way of doing this in-game or is it just a matter of copying over the audio packs i want to use?

Has anyone finished the game on the Xbox? Because it crashes at the SaMatra.
Also if anyone knows if there is a way to make 2 players work (2 pads control the same ship ) please let me know.

I re-got this file after your post, and just tested it. It still doesn't work for me. A is special fire only, I still can't regular fire.... could you post your key.cfg please?

any new updates on enabling 2 player super melee mode? Also has anyone figured out how to keep the game from crashing once you undertake the final mission?

i just used a merge program to compare my keys with the one inside the rar on joker's site and there indentical.

so i really don't have a clue, maybe it's a setting inside the compiled xbe.

i didn't get to the ending yet, so i dunno if that crash happens for everyone

You mean that Super melee 2 players mode works with you?

i've only tried super melee against computer.
i was referring to people saying you can only use the special attack, the version i got i can use both regular and special attacks, in both single and multi player modes.

Ah, ok.

I got the download from the jockers site too, and never had a problem with the speial attacks.

I played multiplayer with the computer with no problem, but when I tried to play against one of my friends, to my sad surprise both pads control the same ship...

I never played the story mode on the Xbox (have already on 3DO) but a friend of mine did and as far as I know, the 3 main bugs are that you can remine any planet, game crashes at the final battle place (that would suck very bad for any who play the game to finish the story mode for the first time at the xbox) and the multiplayer one (The one I wished was fix).

If any one know a Keys.cfg that works for multiplayer please let me know (unless is forbidden)

Ok, I got the xbe again and it seems to work now for both fires. Perhaps mine was an older build, although they were exactly the same file size (didn't binary compare them though).

so i am one of the peeps that never got to play this on the 3do or PC...
I am wondering if anybody was thinking about picking this back up, would love to experince the endgame =)

thanks

-searchmonkey-

Thank you guys SO much for porting this. I played this game for a LONG time on the PC. Never got to the endgame of the single player, but got close. Maybe I'll get into it again. I think I still have the starmap that came in the box.

Anyway, just a quick question. Is there any way to exit Super Melee 2 mode? I just have to power cycle the xbox.

Also (just as a nitpick) it would be nice to restart the default dashboard when exiting the game. For me the screen just stays black.

I know it has been awhile but it would be really awesome and mean alot to me if someone fixed this up and finished it! Really speaking about the three-four bugs that still exist.
1. Ships aren't circling homeworlds (unimportant)
2. Freezes at the end (important)
3. Reminable planets (unimportant)
4. Super melee mode controller config (important)

Not to mention the source has had several big updates since the port.

Last time i spoke to joker in #avalaunch (6months+) he seemed totally uninterested in working on the project again.
When i inquired him about a possible source release, he left me with the impression of a very unoptimistic "maybe".

So pretty much the only chance we may see a completed port of this would be for someone else to pick up the newest sources and start over.
I think it is also listed as "maybe" in xport's list. But then again so are about 50 more games.

It's really an awesome classic game tho, and alot more suited to console+couch+TV play than the PC.

An Ur-Quan Masters updated port is in my TODO list (the recently released 0.60 version supports network SuperMelee)

Now that's just too hot.

Getting a file from the horrible fileplanet that like the xbox auto update for this port, will let you dl whatever components you need for the pc version. I found this while doing a search for the movie files a few are having trouble finding (this includes me). If I actually get a hold of them will post more info here.

Does anyone have the newest key.config file? The updater tells me the link in the bat file is no longer valid (as well as the link that held the movies originally)


UPDATE: the UQM updater will update everything else but offers no movies option. Can anyone that has the movie files throw them up on a torrent site or rapidshare, etc? thanks

Awesome. Since it seems like there's not gonna be more (or maybe a few) actual games released in 07, it's people like A600, Xport, Nes6502 and others that will make 07 still a great xbox year. Thanks to all.