Quake II Enhanced mission pack(s) are embeded in pak0.pak file now (as of 2023.08.10)

[todortanevski]

This is pretty new - can this be reverse engineered to be used with linux ports like this one?

I have paid for the game on GOG/Steam but it is only usable/playable on Windows OS.

It would be really good to be usable on our favorite Linux as well.

baseq2 structure is like this:

[baseq2]$ tree -L 1 . ├── game_x64.dll ├── music ├── pak0.pak └── video

where pak0.pak is 1629M and contains two new mission packs - Nintendo 64 one and brand new "Call of the machine" - these two are not available from this pack at all.

[kondrak]

Not impossible to pull off but definitely not within the scope of the project (and the amount of time I can dedicate to it these days). Also, would be difficult for me to test without getting the enhanced edition myself and frankly - not what I feel like spending money on right now :)

I'll leave this open, though, as it would make a nice improvement.

[folknor]

Also, would be difficult for me to test without getting the enhanced edition myself and frankly - not what I feel like spending money on right now :)

It's free if you already own Q2, which I suspect you do.

[folknor]

Also, here is the code for the remaster: https://github.com/id-Software/quake2-rerelease-dll

EDIT: It should be noted that the readme for the code is exceptionally well written. Very useful for you as well.

[kondrak]

I actually had a look at this recently and indeed, the re-release is well documented.

With that being said, there's so much architectural change (not to mention need to use a fairly recent compiler, preferably something that support C++20) that I consider adding support to this in vkQuake2 as not feasible. The amount of changes would require modifications in other mods and given that APIs have changed - likely in the remaining parts of the game itself. This is far beyond the scope of this project. Not to mention - I have no way to test this on Linux or Mac anymore.

On the bright side - this looks like something that Yamagi team, for example, could incorporate - so might be a good idea to report that to them as well and see what they say :) The modding community is really rich and vkQuake2 is primarily my testbed for Vulkan.