Bug#788061: Bug#788057: game-data-packager: please add support for Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and Planet Strike

[Fabian Greffrath]

Hi Alexandre,

Am Montag, den 29.06.2015, 17:33 +0200 schrieb Alexandre Detiste:
> What's the purpose of these two files: ?

I just got in contact with ECWolf's upstream author (CC:ed) and he
provided some clarification on the role of these two files. Relaying
here with his permission:

> Anyhow, I stumbled across the thread on the Debian mailing list 
> wondering about noah3d.wad and noah3d.pk3. The PK3 is ecwolf.pk3 with 
> minor adjustments for the commercial release. The WAD serves a 
> similar purpose as SVE.WAD does for Strife. It contains all the 
> changes for the 20th anniversary edition and can be used with base 
> ECWolf by loading manually.
> 
> The pk3 should not be installed since it's tied to the binary 
> version. The WAD can be installed if you like, but it will likely 
> change from time to time as S3DNA updates. You can find the wad in 
> the S3DNA repo, although without the SC-55 music pack integrated 
> (don't feel like dumping 17MB of music into the repo).
> 
> The reason for the two separate files is the PK3 is loaded before 
> anything else (allowing game data to load) and the WAD contains some 
> resources which override the base game data, thus needs to load after 
> the n3d files.

Cheers,

Fabian
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