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The retail CD version of Quake II and both addons contain up to 11 Audio CD tracks, forming the soundtrack. Regarding music, STEAM version of Quake 2 - similarly to my version added to Quake 4 release - are both stripped down of music. In case you have the expansion packs, create shortcuts to the game launchfile and add to their descriptions respectivey, after the comillas:Įxample: "C:\Games\Yamagi Quake 2\Quake 2.exe" /quake2 +set game rogue If you own the optional addons you'll need to copy their gamedata too:įor The Reckoning copy the pak0.pak and the video/ subdirectory from your addon distribution into the xatrix/ subdirectory.įor Ground Zero copy the pak0.pak and the video/ subdirectory from your addon distribution into the rogue/ subdirectory.Īfter that, download the latest entry to the patch:Īnd just copy and paste all the contents of the latest download to the Yamagi sourceport dedicated Quake 2 folder. They aren't needed anymore:Ĭopy the pak0.pak file and the video/ subdirectory from your Quake II distribution (CD, Steam download, etc) into the baseq2/ subdirectory of the extracted patch. They're the original executables, documentation and so on. Now it's time to remove the following files from the extracted patch. On Windows it can be extracted by double clicking on it, on other systems an archiver or even the unzip command can be used. The patch is just an ordinary self-extracting ZIP file. Without it Yamagi Quake II will not work!Įxtract the patch into an empty directory. Please note that the patch is required for all full versions of the game, even the newer ones like Steam.

The easiest way to install a full version of Quake II is to start with the patch. Like it has been said, downloading sourceport base for further filesdigging is demanded:

Actually, if to dig the files on the CD, it could even pass without the formal install.

Installed my Quake 2 version with expansion packs, all added to the Quake 4 CD purchase as bonus contents. I have been around it for the last couple of hours and finally came to how to make it go, since even though all the files are at hand, switching between different sites is necessary with downloads unnecessarily grouped in bundles.