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[Sir BillyBob]

When you installed both BG1 and TotSC, did you do a full install? This is the only way to have the movies copied to your hard drive so BGT can find them. BGT will not copy them from the CD-ROM.

[Ascension64]

fooze, on Jan 22 2006, 11:48 PM, said:

Could me having EU BG1 and US TotSC + US5512 patch have anything to do with it?

Don't know, but this is very interesting. I'll have a look for you...BTW, what OS do you have and version, language?

[Hety]

Post the size of your moviecd4.bif. Mine is 89 154 212 bytes and i have no problems with it.

Also check if you made FULL install with ALL movies included. If not - copy that bif from your CD to Movies folder in BG1 dir. And remove ALL BG related CD's from cd-drives(put some music in ).

[Ascension64]

The EU versions of BG1 + TotSC that you *ahem* downloaded, are there only three image files? As much as I cannot condone the 'downloading' of games, I just need to know if you actually installed the 5512 patch on top of the Original Saga, which you shouldn't!

[seanas]

Ascension64, on Jan 24 2006, 08:22 AM, said:

The EU versions of BG1 + TotSC that you *ahem* downloaded, are there only three image files? As much as I cannot condone the 'downloading' of games, I just need to know if you actually installed the 5512 patch on top of the Original Saga, which you shouldn't!

yr nicer than i would be, asc. i'd be posting the SHS forum guidelines:

"Board Guidelines" said:

Illegal activities
Spellhold Studios strongly urges our visitors not to post anything in violation of the Copyright- or Trademark-laws; as such activity is prohibited throughout the community.

and then cut-n-pasting my boilerplate rant: we don't support, encourage or discuss pirated materials; if you've got a pirated copy and it doesn't work, yr on yr own - or ask at the forum you downloaded it from. modding is itself a breach of copyright, and only exists at the discretion of the publisher. if we also encourage the avoidance of royalties by discussing/ encouraging/ supporting pirated materials, we'll get shut down. we dont want to get shut down, so take yr quesitons about pirated warez somewhere else.

[Kulyok]

Er, guys... I don't know what country Fooze is from, but, actually, in Russia it is impossible to buy a legal copy of Baldur's Gate/Baldur's Gate II. The only localization in existence (Feargus') is illegal and has no relation to Interplay/Bioware. Alina will correct me, if I am mistaken, but the legal version (promoted by 1C) is still in the works - and it's been five years.

(And, yeah, pirates sell TDD copies in Moscow. Same price as TOB. I don't like TOB, much, except for graphics and Alianna's true story, but, um, I think it is actually worth more.)


So, don't condemn us outright, OK? Like Yoshimo, we simply have no choice.

[Salk]

Kulyok,

how is it possible that games like Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2 had not been distributed in Russia ? I don't mean to say that you're not saying the truth, mind you. It's just that I can't understand why they didn't make it to the videogames market...

[Hety]

Indeed. I tried to it in few online shops, but they either dont have it or dont ship in Russia. Also i asked uncle to buy it in UK, but no luck either(but i doubt he tried alot).

If someone in our beloved country of bears, snow and beautiful women still need a copy- ask Bioware and PM me

P.S.: I had same discussion on few official forums of other games, which are not shipped in Russia. The problem is that piracy level here is so high that its useless to ship non-online games. Also if games are released here they usually lack 3 things:
1. Normal translation(it ALWAYS sux)
2. Patches(they are never done due to translation and problems that it brings)
3. NORMAL english language( coz not many will buy game for 30$ here and our publishers publish em in jewel boxes for like 6-10$, but it destroys any chance the game will be published in english hehe)
End of story.


EDIT:
And here is small list of games taht were never released or sold in Russia(as far as i know):
BG1, BG2, PST, IWD1(IWD2 was published and even in english. no idea why that happened. unique episode), HoMM 4, Majesty(and expansion) and MANY others.

Edited by Hety, 24 January 2006 - 03:03 AM.

[Kulyok]

Yep, Hety said it all.

There's some hope that 1C will release it this year, though. Bet you a dollar that translation will suck again... Sigh.

[SConrad]

seanas, on Jan 24 2006, 11:37 AM, said:

Ascension64, on Jan 24 2006, 08:22 AM, said:

The EU versions of BG1 + TotSC that you *ahem* downloaded, are there only three image files? As much as I cannot condone the 'downloading' of games, I just need to know if you actually installed the 5512 patch on top of the Original Saga, which you shouldn't!

yr nicer than i would be, asc. i'd be posting the SHS forum guidelines:

"Board Guidelines" said:

Illegal activities
Spellhold Studios strongly urges our visitors not to post anything in violation of the Copyright- or Trademark-laws; as such activity is prohibited throughout the community.

and then cut-n-pasting my boilerplate rant: we don't support, encourage or discuss pirated materials; if you've got a pirated copy and it doesn't work, yr on yr own - or ask at the forum you downloaded it from. modding is itself a breach of copyright, and only exists at the discretion of the publisher. if we also encourage the avoidance of royalties by discussing/ encouraging/ supporting pirated materials, we'll get shut down. we dont want to get shut down, so take yr quesitons about pirated warez somewhere else.

seanas said it well enough.