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Article #161036Re: WC4 mpeg2 DVD
From: mghe... Mattias Hembruch
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:51
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:51
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In article <70qc505nc5esde0kp...@4ax.com>, TC <T...@blacklance.org> wrote: >On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 07:18:52 -0600, in alt.games.wing-commander "XxShadowxX" ><mitu...@netscape.net> wrote: > >>To clarify: I already have a Creative DXR3 card, which should be >compatible with it. >> >>Basically, I'm looking for just the game itself - not the hardware, as >I already have all of the hardware the game needs. > >Yes, you can pretty much only get the game on ebay. There are often auctions >that include only the game and not the hardware. (For example: >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3085110532&category=4315 ) > >If it isn't clear from the picture in the auction that it is, in fact, the >double sided MPEG2 version of the game be sure to email the seller and confirm. >There have been instances where, even if it's listed in the description as the >MPEG2, double sided version, the item has actually been the single sided >non-MPEG2 version and vice versa. Sellers sometimes get confused and copy and >paste descriptions from other places that don't realize describe a different >version of WC4 DVD. How can one tell the difference? I have a WC4 DVD that doesn't have any real labelling on it, except on the inside rim of the DVD. The movie files on it have a .vob extension.. Mattias
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!zeus.visi.com!priapus.visi.com!orange.octanews.net!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!news.octanews.net!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!diablo.voicenet.com!meganewsservers.com!feeder2.on.meganewsservers.com!news.uwaterloo.ca!not-for-mail From: mghe...@ecexh.uwaterloo.ca (Mattias Hembruch) Newsgroups: alt.games.wing-commander Subject: Re: WC4 mpeg2 DVD Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:51:12 +0000 (UTC) Organization: University of Waterloo Lines: 28 Message-ID: <c37ba0$bjr$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca> References: <5385ca744ad63c2a945c08b059e67b10@localhost.talkaboutgaming.com> <1079163177.961758@news.ainet.at> <0a4aa2edd2ee7d694db83e085028d8d4@localhost.talkaboutgaming.com> <70qc505nc5esde0kp75gj4jt3ualjq0tpq@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ecexh.uwaterloo.ca X-Trace: rumours.uwaterloo.ca 1079455872 11899 129.97.56.64 (16 Mar 2004 16:51:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: ab...@uwaterloo.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:51:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit