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Dec 13 2005

AVATAR-CITTERN  How does one get a hold of the original music files that came with the DX2

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Jan 26 2006

KARX11ERX  You can find the songs in mp3 format zipped on www.planetdescent.com. This will not allow you to play them in D2X though, but at least you can listen to them.

D2X-XL (a different D2X version) will support mp3 playback somewhere in the near future.  
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Dec 2 2005

BRYAN GOLDSTEIN  dido please help!  
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Dec 2 2005

BRYAN GOLDSTEIN  I was talking about not getting it to work on my imac g4 with tiger  
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Nov 30 2005

KARX11ERX  Many features missing, network support broken, mouse not working properly ... take a look at D2X-XL (available for MS Windows, Linux and Mac OS X on http://www.descent2.de) and see whether it serves you better. ;)  
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Sep 18 2005

BART  Help I downloaded this but every time I try to start it on my imac G4 10.3 it will not start.  
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Sep 7 2005

DANIEL R  Very good Port. Keep up the good work. I just want to know one thing. Is it possible to enable the cockpit view? In descent 1, the Cockpit looked very pixelated (320x240), put in Descent II the cockpit looked awesome in hi-res. Is there a way to enable the Cockpit view in this port?  
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Sep 6 2005

ANONYMOUS  Don't think they need to add much more than this....I've got the same problem:

1.25GHz Powerbook G4

Mac OS 10.3.9  
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Sep 1 2005
*****

NEXTLOOP  Wow! This brings back memories. This is an outstanding job bringing this game back to life. Hours of fun...  
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Sep 1 2005

NICHOLAS ADAMS  I have a 1.25GHz PowerBook running 10.3.9, 512MB Ram, and D2X will not display correctly. I launch it, and I get a pattern repeated through my screen, and it does nothing.  
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Sep 1 2005

UMAROMC  Give a LOT more info than what you've stated and email them or read their FAQ– you answer's probably there...  
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Jul 23 2005
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STEVE JOBS  Wonderful game, some graphical glitch in the highscore screen but other than that and the cockpit bug It works great, now I can throw away 9. I would like some more levels however.

P.S. the seceret level takes a while to load  
(Version 0.2.6b12)

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Apr 20 2005
****½

DJ  a brilliant release!!

thank you very much :)  
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Feb 22 2005

ANONYMOUS  Not a perfect port, but for a non-profit job of an old dead game, it's pretty good.  
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Nov 23 2004
*****

WARREN  Great game. I play it nightly, all of the time! I just with that it had more levels.  
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Oct 20 2004

GUY WITH 8.6  I really think someone should make this Carbon rather than Cocoa (I'm the guy with the 6500 and 8.6+carbonlib). I would really like to be able to use a modem through something besides my serial ports. I'd doom all of you... if I could.  
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May 20 2004

BLUESPOT  The 0.2.6.b11 suffers from a severe bug which the motions with the mouse are severly limited. Had to come back to 0.2.6b10 !  
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May 16 2004
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ANONYMOUS  This game is so cool,I love it!I'd just like less keys to push.  
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May 5 2004

ANONYMOUS  Pros:

It accepts swapping the original game's data files/folder and allowed playing at all levels.

It kept the cheats intact! (Yeah!)

I like the Open GL. Keep up the dev there. I like the new weapons hit actions very much. It makes the game harder and more realistic.

Cons:

Espace tunnel transition sequences are very slow and choppy. Work on those movies!

I have to quit iTunes to resize the window back to my default. It insists on staying within 640 X 480 limits. (Boo!)

It no longer allows new games except at level 1 (without cheats). What happened to the "Up to level _ _" option? I have to cheat or save the games now to level jump?

Every now then, it self-quits, usually between levels when shifting between screens.

It's a beta and still needs work. But by and large, it's definitely nice to see it ported to X. I look forward to release version.  
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May 5 2004

VADOR  Seems to work perfectly on my iMac flat panel 700 Mhz.

GREAT !  
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May 4 2004

  WORKS GREAT... I haven't had any problems....reminds of me of the old days........  
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Apr 6 2004
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GOSTCODER  What a piece of junk.

It requires some special library, so I finally find the download and instal that, the thing is only 300k, like it would of been that hard to include it in the download of the game?

Finally get the game going. So SLOW, the interface is horrible and the game insists on wasting my time doing a gamma fade when switching resolutions.

Controls can't be configured in-game, you have to abort the current game to change them. Yet another draw-back. The default controls are horrible, I could of forgiven them that if the rest of the thing wasn't so bad.

Default mouse sensitivity is worthlessly slow.

This thing is just a pain in the neck, don't waste your time. If they fix these problems so the interface is quick and easy to navigate, then they'll have something. And get rid of that stupid custom lib guys!  
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Apr 8 2004

ANONYMOUS  uh, it's beta.

I agree it has problems. For me it's mostly have to run joystick sensitivity to "0" start the level, quit level, run sensitivity up to 6, then back in the level to get the joystick to calibrate.

Also, does not recognize game on Kali.

However, it recognized my old pilots and saved games. Great fun fighting the old Boss bots when you can actually see them  
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Feb 3 2004

ANONYMOUS  I bet your iTunes locked up or something like that. With the iTunes playlist support, D2X will wait until iTunes starts up before displaying a menu etc...

Anyone else see this problem?  
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Dec 24 2003

FATALMISTAKE  Danger! Increased boot time to about ten minutes and froze the computer every time I tried to play. Gets to loading data and freezes. Had to restart computer.

I am glad it is working for others, but for me, another gaming disaster.  
(Version 0.2.6.b8)

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Dec 2 2003
*****

PLAYER ONE  This Game Rocks, Till Present i Didn't Find Any Bugs, (Except The Cockpit) & in this Version u Have All Weapons Available & 4 levels to Play

Cheats

Type This During Game Play

Almighty = God Mode

Silkwing = Watch Enemies Fight

Honestbob = All Weapons

LpnLizard = Homing Weapons

Godzilla = Xtra Collision Damage

Duddaboo = Weapons Bounce

Gowingnut = Guide Bot Attacks Robots

AlifaLafeL = All Accessories  
(Version 0.2.6.b7)

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Nov 27 2003

L66  Just tried it with the macintosh data files and it works fine. This are the bugs i've found until now:

-Movies not working

-CD music not working

-In the credits screen the text flickers

-Sound sounds distorted

That's it, otherwise it works perfect under Panther!  
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Nov 27 2003
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L66  Yes, sound is not good here either. Otherwise it works perfect, i only had to set the max framerate to my monitor refresh to remove that 'tearing' effect.

I'm now going to try it with the macintosh data files (yes, i have bought descent 2 years ago :-)  
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Nov 25 2003

SIMX  Err... not "libGL", but "SDL". Sorry about that.  
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Nov 25 2003
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SIMX  Is anybody having problem with poor sound quality? Other than that, this rocks! Be sure to download the "libGL" installer package, since otherwise D2X will just launch and quit without any warning.  
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Nov 25 2003
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ANONYMOUS  AWESOME! This is the best descent I've ever played (including 3). This is how it should have been. The graphics are amazing, but they haven't lost their look in being converted to OpenGL. I think I'm gonna buy a copy of the retail version.

My only complaint is that the old cockpit view is gone, and F3 doesn't restore it.

Oh well, at least I'm playing descent in OS X!  
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