nichegamer.com
I fucking hate Beamdog but how does this happen? How do you not have this saved on a single hard drive or USB stick somewhere?
Icewind Dale 2 source code missing
Colton Cooper
Gavin Thomas
>wanting another abomination with tranny NPCs and "modernized for a 2017 audience" character rewrites
Wyatt Jenkins
Data archiving used to be at premium way back unlike now where you can just dump everything to a couple of cloud services and you'd be 99% safe.
There was also no reason to archive stuff because people weren't really into doing remasters or remakes and those that own the stuff aren't going to pay to keep that shit.
Kevin Carter
I still have hope.
Colton Gray
Forgive me, I'm not into programming but can't the source code be obtained from the original game discs? I have a physical copy of Icewind Dale 2 and would give it to the cause.
Jonathan Rogers
Can't they just rip the code from the game itself.
Landon Cooper
Not the executable source code, no.
Kayden Harris
I don't think so, you might be able to get most of the code back but a lot of it could be hidden after compiling.
Sebastian Perez
Post yfw the original devs are hiding it so Beamdog can't make a shitty remaster
Gabriel Martin
Awww, that's cute.
Isaac Collins
...
Brandon Edwards
If only it was that easy
Ayden Myers
Fucking moralfags need to die
Adrian Gonzalez
I only ever got into this game because it was 3E rules and I just couldn't into AD&D
Landon Thompson
trying to get the source code from compiled code is like trying to get the ingredients back after making a bowl of soup
you can't really do it
Wyatt Clark
Hey guys, check out the new PC case I got!
I just had to wipe the old drive that was in there. It was full of useless junk.
Julian Martin
This is what happens when you lose source code.
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AND THE GRAND FINALE:
Grayson Taylor
>implying they needed the source code to begin with
Joshua Adams
Yes?
Michael Russell
no
Colton Ramirez
There's no reason to be a cocksucker.
Ayden Howard
It's not like anyone cares about the source code for that anyway.
This is like saying "oh man i can't find my garbage"
Brody Taylor
This. They had one job. All the hard work was already done for them.
Elijah Reyes
How is Planescape Torment EE? Are there any additional writing?
Elijah Morris
All i want is a toggle that disables all new content because the UI work they did is honestly great and can't really be reproduced with mods
Wyatt Hughes
No but they fucked up the graphics by applying this nauseous looking filter over everything that you can't turn off even through ini editing.
Luis Turner
>Tranny
>In a universe where magic can change your gender entirely.
I bet any fucking amount of money that they either.
A.Somehow forgot that their dream magic existed.
or
B. Knew so little about the finer details that they didn't know about it.
Josiah Morgan
Did the baldur's gate games always have that outline around all the characters?
Thomas Price
It was actually
C. Complete and blatant pandering to an audience that has absolutely nothing to do with the series or style of game and an addition that no actual fan/consumer wanted in the first place
Jonathan Wood
No Beamdog is just fucking trash when it comes to "enhancing" the graphics of an ages old video game. Do not look at the garbage they used to replace the opening cinematic
Eli Wood
I'd be perfectly happy to play original IWD2 and I actually installed it and got it working on modern resolution and all except for that fucking fog of war which flickers like a strobo light every time you move the camera. Somebody fix that shit and the original is just as fine.
Oliver Ramirez
Used those, didn't fix the problem.
Jonathan Russell
The fuck?
I haven't played baldurs gate but all of the characters better not be this level of special snowflakery.
Parker Green
That's the remaster addition...
Anthony Howard
This shit is why a video game's source could should automatically become public domain after X years.
Gabriel Rivera
There's even a girdle of gender switching in the game
Lincoln Adams
There's a mod that removes all the shit they added.
Gabriel Williams
It's offtopic but have any settings explicitly had this?
Where people who would be considered trans irl would simply change their gender with magic/ritual/prayer?
Anthony James
>thank you for sharing your story with me
>An interesting past
Where is the answer that doesn't involve ass kissing?
Also can you kill it?
Sebastian Howard
If China and general piracy didn't exist I feel like we would have more open source games.
Owen Morales
>you now realize 99,99% of games don't have their source code anymore and once their respective hardware dies or gets phased out say goodbye to them
copyright laws must be like patents - you have to provide all source and documents or no protection for you
Samuel Jenkins
^this
Christopher Myers
>what are emulators
John Jones
Getting copy protection for sales of more than X dollars (say... 10,000) should require you to submit a copy of your source code and original art files to a vault somewhere.
After a certain amount of time, if your software hasn't be made sufficiently usable on modern hardware, the archived code should become open source.
Oliver Long
You're retarded
Liam Nguyen
This is not an answer. It's a good start to recreate the hardware used to emulate games but the process of making the game is lost forever - just like when we have pyramids or moai statues but nobody knows how the fuck they were made. So they can just sit there and wither away for our amusement.
Liam Morris
No its not...