Descent 2 anyone? [Archive]

TheSmJ

7 Jun 2006, 01:21 PM

Just wondering if anyone is interested in some old-fashoned Descent 2 action. I haven't played this game in multiplayer since the Kali days and I'd really like to give it a spin again.

Since the Descent trademark was offically canned by Interplay in 2002, and Parallax software hasn't existed since 1998, I can make a copy of the disk for anyone who is interested. There's also been a few fan made patches which enable TCP/IP play (rather than IPX) and 3D acceleration in OpenGL.

If anyone is interested let me know and I'll make it available on my server for download.

deicist

7 Jun 2006, 03:40 PM

Got any screenshots of openGL descent 2? I can't seem to find any on the interweb.

Sledgehammer70

7 Jun 2006, 03:49 PM

wow that game seems so old.... I think it was just the game play wasn't to par :(

GHoosdum

7 Jun 2006, 03:58 PM

I'm interested in giving it a go. I think I have a Descent 2 disc sitting around my house somewhere... I'd be interested in checking out the fanmade features you mentioned.

oCoMiK

7 Jun 2006, 05:01 PM

SmJ of The,

I'd be interested in checking it out as well... IP beats IPX any day... I always wanted to do PodRacer in a LAN but IPX always seemed to cause a problem.

TheSmJ

7 Jun 2006, 06:17 PM

There are a lot of similar mods out there, but as of late I've been messing with http://www.dxx-rebirth.de/ the most.

Here's the complete program, high res movies and all. Just unrar it where ever you want and run the exe. You'll need to use the command line -gl_trilinear to get it to run with 3D acceleration.

There are a bunch more command tweaks too. Check the readme file.

http://thesmj.no-ip.org:91/d2x-rebirth.rar