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Re: Descent 2 mission briefings

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From: Thomas Otto
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 23:41
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> I started Descent 2 the other day without the CD in the drive and I noticed 
> that I got to see mission briefings I normally don't get at all. What's the 
> deal with this?

IIRC the briefings are in the {other,robots}-{h,l}.mvl (high/lowres) 
files. If the game (d2x I presume) can't access these it won't play these.

To see these also while playing without the CD copy these files to the 
datadir, on linux /usr/local/share/games/d2x, dunno about Win.

     -Thomas
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Subject: Re: Descent 2 mission briefings
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