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I am a game preservationist trying to archive an early version of PlanetSide 2 from mid-June 2012 that was passed around and discussed on this forum. It is said to be the E3 version of the game that could be installed by modifying the launcher from DC Universe Online. This version of the game would contain early content and continent assets that were scrapped before the real beta was available. I've discussed this with a member from this forum who was around when this happened but they have been unable to find the related threads, and I've found remnants of discussion on the PS2 subreddit and on youtube uploads of music that was ripped from this specific version. This version of the game is the last important backup I need to preserve the early days of PlanetSide 2. If you have any additional info on where to find this backup, you were around to download it, you know someone who was around to download it and you have a hard-drive backup, a copy of this version of the game before it was removed, an old pc that still has it installed please get in touch with me. I will provide a place to upload the files. You can contact me here or through my email for this project: ps-preservation@proton.me
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Jul 25, 2022 00:27
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what do you mean preserve?
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Jul 25, 2022 14:28
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This version of the game includes heaps of early content that I've not found in any other beta client. There are early map renders, unfinished versions of the in-game music (which was extracted from the game by whichever group had it downloaded and uploaded to youtube), according to the player I talked about there is a very unfinished prototype of an entire game world that has since been canceled and has never been seen again. I am working to document and showcase lost content from this game, and I've gotten pretty far, but there are some things that could only be in this client such as the prototype lava world, missing textures for unique gun models that were replaced with cookie-cutter models, early overview maps of the game worlds the game did get. My long term goal is to rig up these beta clients so they can be walked through offline so long-time players can re-experience the unique way the game looked back then, and I'd love to get the prototype lava world running so the SA member I talked with can see it again.
RhettVX fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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Jul 25, 2022 16:23
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what
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Jul 26, 2022 00:45
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Jul 26, 2022 01:13
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It's a long shot, but people keep pointing me to this forum as the place where this version of the game was discovered and discussed. I only need to find one person who downloaded this version of the game a decade ago and never bothered to delete it.
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Jul 26, 2022 02:42
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Higby gave us a few hundred SOE-bucks for helping diagnose this years back but I didn't keep it installed and I can't imagine anyone else did. I'll reach out to the one other person I know who downloaded it but I figure there's basically 0% chance they still have it
Phoix fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Jul 27, 2022 |
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Jul 27, 2022 19:27
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I appreciate it. Do you remember if any of the people who ripped music and other info out of that build re-hosted the download anywhere? I imagine any re-hosted downloads are long gone by now, but any fraction of a percent chance of archiving this thing is what I'm after.
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Jul 27, 2022 19:45
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That's wild, hope you find it. Have you done this with any other games?
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Jul 28, 2022 05:43
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I've helped out the group working on the PlanetSide 1 server emulator with some archival and recently I became fascinated with the Chinese PlanetSide "clone" called Welkin 4591/Mars War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJyY2vdQ3PE. I've archived a pile of different chinese and english clients for that game and some fan-made english localizations, but I've only had the time to get a surface level look at the game files. Aside from those 2 games I'm focused on PlanetSide 2 and other games that use the same engine, Forgelight, such as EverQuest Landmark and H1Z1.
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Jul 28, 2022 22:10
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Man, I miss Mars Wars.
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Jul 29, 2022 02:01
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Small update on preservation progress. I still don't have the build of the game I'm after, but I do have an early July 2012 build that has a prototype of Esamir left in (In-game screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/6iAhLH7). The rate of finding earlier builds has slowed significantly. I'm running low on hope of getting this early June version archived, and running low on ideas for how to find it if anyone even has it anywhere still. On the topic of Mars War, I have been able to archive all sorts of stuff from it, and I still do want to get that game running again, but I just have too much going on to spend time on it right now. I haven't given up on this PS2 build yet so if anyone knows anything that could help me get closer, I would appreciate you reaching out. Thanks.
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