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Ni1s: New page: This tutorial deals primarily with providing you with an executable, but in order to play the game you also need the game data. FreeSpace 2 game data is available from a number of sources,...

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New page: This tutorial deals primarily with providing you with an executable, but in order to play the game you also need the game data. FreeSpace 2 game data is available from a number of sources,...

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This tutorial deals primarily with providing you with an executable, but in order to play the game you also need the game data. FreeSpace 2 game data is available from a number of sources, see this thread: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38195.0.html (or use Turey's installer, see above for a link)

Note that if you use the retail CD, you'll need to extract the files and to copy them on your drive, reproducing the same layout as in a working win32 installation (just make sure every file is lowercase). This thread on the SCP forum has some more info on it : http://scp.indiegames.us/forum_viewtopic.php?3.282

There are two ways of doing this,
* Use [http://www.winehq.org/ Wine] to install the game in the right directory, using the Setup.exe found on the first CD, or,
* Extract the files manually from the CD.

The second method is detailed below. The wine one is straightforward and you shouldn't need any specific instruction as it behaves like a Windows install, but you'll have to fix permissions and lowercase the filename as well, so keep reading.

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 Download Knossos.NET from here: https://knossosnet.github.io/Knossos-Release-Page/
-<b>Please do note that it is illegal to share or download shared game files off of unauthorized sources. The game can be bought on GOG and Steam for very low prices.<b>
+<b>Please do note that it is illegal to share or download shared game files off of unauthorized sources. The game can be bought on GOG and Steam for very low prices.</b>
 <h2>For Advanced Users</h2>
-THESE ARE THE OLD METHODS! PROCEED ONLY IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!
+<b>THESE ARE THE OLD METHODS! PROCEED ONLY IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!</b>
 This tutorial deals primarily with providing you with an executable, but in order to play the game you also need the game data. FreeSpace 2 game data is available from a number of sources, see [http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38195.0.html this thread], or use [[FreeSpace_Open_Installer|the installer]].

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 This tutorial deals primarily with providing you with an executable, but in order to play the game you also need the game data. FreeSpace 2 game data is available from a number of sources, see [http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38195.0.html this thread], or use [[FreeSpace_Open_Installer|the installer]].

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-This tutorial deals primarily with providing you with an executable, but in order to play the game you also need the game data. FreeSpace 2 game data is available from a number of sources, see this thread: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38195.0.html (or use Turey's installer, see above for a link)
+This tutorial deals primarily with providing you with an executable, but in order to play the game you also need the game data. FreeSpace 2 game data is available from a number of sources, see [http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38195.0.html this thread], or use [[FreeSpace_Open_Installer|the installer]].
 Note that if you use the retail CD, you'll need to extract the files and to copy them on your drive, reproducing the same layout as in a working win32 installation (just make sure every file is lowercase). All that really means is that you need the retail *.vp game data files in the same folder as the binary fs2_open_(r|d).
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 * Extract the files manually from the CD.
-The third method is detailed below. The wine one is straightforward and you shouldn't need any specific instruction as it behaves like a Windows install, but you'll have to fix permissions and lowercase the filename as well, so keep reading.
+The third method is detailed in the next page. The wine one is straightforward and you shouldn't need any specific instruction as it behaves like a Windows install, but you'll have to fix permissions and lowercase the filename as well, so keep reading.
 [[Category:FreeSpace Open on Linux|Acquiring the Game Data]]

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 This tutorial deals primarily with providing you with an executable, but in order to play the game you also need the game data. FreeSpace 2 game data is available from a number of sources, see this thread: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38195.0.html (or use Turey's installer, see above for a link)
-Note that if you use the retail CD, you'll need to extract the files and to copy them on your drive, reproducing the same layout as in a working win32 installation (just make sure every file is lowercase). This thread on the SCP forum has some more info on it : http://scp.indiegames.us/forum_viewtopic.php?3.282
+Note that if you use the retail CD, you'll need to extract the files and to copy them on your drive, reproducing the same layout as in a working win32 installation (just make sure every file is lowercase). All that really means is that you need the retail *.vp game data files in the same folder as the binary fs2_open_(r|d).
 There are three ways of doing this,

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	This tutorial deals primarily with providing you with an executable, but in order to play the game you also need the game data. FreeSpace 2 game data is available from a number of sources, see this thread: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38195.0.html (or use Turey's installer, see above for a link)		This tutorial deals primarily with providing you with an executable, but in order to play the game you also need the game data. FreeSpace 2 game data is available from a number of sources, see this thread: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,38195.0.html (or use Turey's installer, see above for a link)