SE4 deluxe

Possum · #1 August 25th, 2006, 12:55 PM

I was at the MM site, looking for release info on SE5, and I saw a patch for (supposedly) all previous versions of SE4, to bring it up to "Space Empires Deluxe, V1.95"

So I was wondering, is anybody playing this on PBW?

Captain Kwok · #2 August 25th, 2006, 01:02 PM

Deluxe 1.95 is fully compatible with 1.91 games on pbw.

PvK · #3 August 25th, 2006, 01:03 PM

Maybe we should have a "What is SE4 Deluxe?" sticky thread.

gregebowman · #4 August 28th, 2006, 07:44 PM

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PvK said:
Maybe we should have a "What is SE4 Deluxe?" sticky thread.

You do, by me, that was created about a month ago when I found out about the Deluxe version. Knock on wood, I might get a computer soon that will let me try out these new patches.

Q · #5 August 29th, 2006, 05:28 AM

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gregebowman said:

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PvK said:
Maybe we should have a "What is SE4 Deluxe?" sticky thread.

You do, by me, that was created about a month ago when I found out about the Deluxe version. Knock on wood, I might get a computer soon that will let me try out these new patches.

Why do you need a new computer to try the new patches for SE IV Deluxe?

Fyron · #6 August 25th, 2006, 01:42 PM

There is no "supposedness" about it, the (1.93) patch does patch all versions of SE4 up to 1.93, which you can then patch to 1.95 with the 1.93 to 1.95 patch.

Ed Kolis · #7 August 25th, 2006, 01:53 PM

Actually it's the 1.94 patch, not 1.93

Possum · #8 August 26th, 2006, 07:20 PM

Actually, gentlemen, there are 3 patches.

One to patch Deluxe 1.94 to 1.95

One to patch Deluxe 1.93 to 1.94

One to patch any old version of SE4, Classic or Gold, to Deluxe 1.94.

Which means that, despite never having bought SE4 Gold, I can now patch my classic SE4 to the latest version \0/

But, gentlemen, you didn't answer my original question - is anybody actually playing this on PBW?

Hmm, I wonder what the *&^%#* the password was on my old account? No chance of recovering it if I can't recall it; I'm sure my email addy has changed since then.

Suicide Junkie · #9 August 26th, 2006, 08:18 PM

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But, gentlemen, you didn't answer my original question - is anybody actually playing this on PBW?

And the answer, to reiterate what Kwok said:

Gold and Deluxe are the same thing. The only major difference is the publisher's packaging.

Fyron · #10 August 26th, 2006, 09:13 PM

That's not quite true... there are several bugfixes in Deluxe that are not present in Gold. Savegames between the two are compatible (1.91 and any of 1.93-1.95), but the game exes are not identical.

Possum:

Some mods have to be processed with Deluxe to bypass certain bugs in Gold (like seeker targetting seeker issues), but such games can still be played with Gold 1.91 (not anything earlier, of course).