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Robot Arena => General Support => Topic started by: Dark Richician on December 25, 2008, 05:27:08 PM

Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Dark Richician on December 25, 2008, 05:27:08 PM: Hi. I'm new. I got RA2 and installed the DSL 2.0 things and I'm sure I did everything right, but nothing is different! There's no new components, no new robots, nothing! What's going on?
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Somebody on December 25, 2008, 05:36:47 PM: Then you didn't do it right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

READ EVERYTHING IN THE INSTRUCTIONS! DO EXACTLY WHAT IT SAYS!!
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Dark Richician on December 25, 2008, 06:25:23 PM: Maybe I haven't actually installed the files, which it doesn't say how to do. How do I install them?
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Somebody on December 25, 2008, 07:39:31 PM: If you want to keep playing the original game, make a new copy (you can just do copy/paste on the desktop). When it asks if you want to overwrite files, you click "Yes to All". It will change all of the files to DSL files.
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Dark Richician on December 25, 2008, 07:45:59 PM: What do you mean a new copy?
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Somebody on December 25, 2008, 07:59:50 PM: If you want to keep playing the original Robot Arena 2 game. You need to make another Robot Arena 2. DSL will change absolutely everything in the game, and there is no easy way to go back to the original game. If you want to keep playing the original game too, just right-click it, select "Copy". then Right-click anywhere on your desktop and select "Paste".
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Dark Richician on December 25, 2008, 08:26:08 PM: The copy is the same as the original and the files won't go into it.
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: R1885 on December 25, 2008, 09:09:02 PM: It would help if you told us what you are useing. Do you use XP or Vista?
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Dark Richician on December 25, 2008, 09:10:29 PM: Windows XP
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: R1885 on December 25, 2008, 09:16:06 PM: Is the game your useing a downloaded, or is it from the CD?
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Dark Richician on December 25, 2008, 09:18:59 PM: It's the CD and all I want is to get the Robot Wars robots but I've had no luck.
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: R1885 on December 25, 2008, 09:23:38 PM: Do you use a Nivida card? If so, you need to download patch1.3.
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Dark Richician on December 25, 2008, 09:27:34 PM: Nope. I don't even know what a Nivida card is.
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Scrap Daddy on December 25, 2008, 09:30:11 PM: I think i know the problem..

Do you even know how to get to your RA2 folder? I have a feeling you just downloaded dsl and expected it to work.
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: R1885 on December 25, 2008, 09:31:11 PM: I ment a graphics card.
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Dark Richician on December 25, 2008, 09:33:55 PM: Quote from: Scrap Daddy;25364
I think i know the problem..

Do you even know how to get to your RA2 folder? I have a feeling you just downloaded dsl and expected it to work.

That's would be it. I can get to the folder but I can't work out what else I need to do.
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: R1885 on December 25, 2008, 09:37:22 PM: You need to exract it with Winrar.
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Dark Richician on December 25, 2008, 09:39:49 PM: If you mean drag the files from WinRaR to the RA2 file, I already tried that and it made no difference
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Sage on December 25, 2008, 11:30:37 PM: Quote from: Dark Richician;25368
If you mean drag the files from WinRaR to the RA2 file, I already tried that and it made no difference

There's instructions dude. Follow them.
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Naryar on December 26, 2008, 02:31:56 AM: I actually took Inf's copy of stock RA2 1.3, installed DSL 2.1 (it seems to work) and made a RAR of it, to make things easier for the DSL-hungry newbies here.

I actually try to get the RAR uploaded in the gametechmods file uploader... Well the thing is something like 250 MB... but even if i wait one hour, it doesn't works.
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Somebody on December 26, 2008, 07:25:02 AM: Quote from: Dark Richician;25355
The copy is the same as the original and the files won't go into it.

The copy is supposed to be the same. You can get Winrar on the website (on the homepage of this site). It has a free trial period (which is forever, because it never goes away :-D)

If you don't have it, you need it to get DSL. Also When you get the Rar file, you need to extract it and click Yes to All when it wants to copy over other files.
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Dark Richician on December 26, 2008, 10:33:02 AM: I've already got WinRar, I downloaded DSL 2.0 and the zipped I download after it that goes with it, and I've extracted the files but nothing on the game has changed. I want to know what to do with the downloads once I've extracted them
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Sage on December 26, 2008, 10:55:33 AM: drag the folder to your desktop.
open it.
open your RA2 folder.
drag the files.

(At least, thats what i did. i might have gone through and dragged only files, and no folders, to make sure i didn't overwrite anything i needed. You might as well do that.
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Dark Richician on December 26, 2008, 11:30:32 AM: Finally changed everything. Now how to I play as the Robot Wars robots?
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: ACAMS on December 26, 2008, 11:41:48 AM: Now you will have to download the extracted AI bots, or extract them yourself.

To extract a bot yourself go to Exhibition and see the bot you want....the very top team is team0 the first bot is bot0
now go to your Robot Arena folder...which if you did it right should be C:\Program Files\Infogrames\Robot Arena 2 DSL
now go to the AI folder and open the team folder the bot you want is in and right click...select copy, then paste it in the Robot designs folder. There are other ways, but for now just do that and rename it to the bot name after you KNOW that it is right.

EDIT: Since you obviously don't look for stuff, you can find the extracted bots here https://gametechmods.com/?do=RA2_Downloads under RA2 Bots
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Dark Richician on December 26, 2008, 12:19:53 PM: All sorted now. Thanks, everyone
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Sage on December 26, 2008, 02:32:24 PM: You're welcome, and good luck.
Title: Confusing problem
Post by: Somebody on December 27, 2008, 08:08:17 AM: Have fun!