Quake II - Quake II PSX v.1.2 - Game mod - Download

Quake II PSX is a mod for Quake II (the 2023 re-release by Nightdive specifically), created by Paril.

Description:

A fully-featured port of the campaign of Quake II PSX for Quake II Re-release. Play through all 20 levels of the PlayStation port, remastered on the 2023 Quake II Re-release engine.

FEATURS:

1. Meticulously recreated by hand; this isn't just a simple copy & paste port. The PSX version of Quake II used an entirely in-house engine created by HammerHead, and due to various technical differences it ended up being simpler and more efficient to simply reproduce the maps using the originals as guidelines. An in-depth explainer on how this was done will be posted here in the future!
2. Enhanced encounters; Quake II PSX had much less intelligent AI, several bugs that greatly affected gameplay (such as difficulties being assigned wrong for certain levels, causing more monsters to spawn on Easy instead of Hard), and many limitations compared to the PC version. We took the time to set this right! The monsters use the new, smarter AI of the re-release to its fullest extent, making the game less about fighting against the dated digital control scheme of the original and more about fighting the Strogg.
3. Thoroughly tested; with a public alpha period tested in a few select circles, the community has been instrumental in making sure that this release goes as solid as possible.
4. Surprising additions; instead of being a 1:1 clone, we decided to improve a few areas of the original port that we felt were lacking. The majority of the campaign should be recognizable to anybody who has played the PCX (or even the PC) version, but a few choice levels received some upgrades to their visuals, encounters or flow. There may even be a few new secrets to discover...
5. Improved monsters; all of the monsters gain their re-release improvements as expected, but the two exclusive monsters, the Guardian and the Arachnid, have been tweaked with a new arsenal and mechanics to make them stand out even more.

Installation Instructions

This mod will only work with Quake II Re-release, or any engines that are compatible with rereleases' game DLLs! It will not work on the vanilla 3.20 or any other version of Q2.

For Windows, installation is fairly simple.

Find your Quake II user data folder; on Windows, this will be located at

%userprofile%/saved games/nightdive studios/quake ii

Pasting that address into a File Explorer window will bring you to the right place.

Download the zip file above.

If using the built-in Windows zip utility, open the zip file and drag/drop the "psx" folder into your Quake II folder as listed above.

If using 7zip, winzip or winrar, open the zip file, select Extract To, and enter the path above into the box. This should extract everything automatically.

Check the folder above to make sure the "psx" subfolder was created during extraction, and that inside of that folder is "game_x64.dll", "pak0.pak", "readme.txt", etc.

Running the mod:

For Steam, to easily launch directly into the mod, right-click Quake II in Steam, select Properties... and at the bottom of the dialog, enter "+set game psx" in the "Selected Launch Option" box. This will launch directly into Quake II PSX. You can then see the new campaign in New Game.

For other targets, create a shortcut to the "quake2ex.exe" for the target (ie quake2ex_gog.exe, quake2ex_steam.exe, or for other compatible engines), and enter "+set game psx" under command line arguments. This should launch the engine directly into that mod and you should see the campaign available under New Game.

If these fail or you simply want to run the mod manually, you can open Quake II Re-release, drop the console with ~ and type "disconnect" to stop the demo, and then enter "game psx" to switch to the PSX mod. Enter "set skill 0" for Easy, "set skill 1" for Medium, "set skill 2" for Hard or "set skill 3" for Nightmare. Then, type "newgame_psx" to launch into the new campaign. Note that running this way won't let you launch a server with PSX due to the mapdb not being loaded; the game must be immediately launched into the mod for that to function.

• Last update: Wednesday, December 4, 2024
• Genre: Action
• File size: 152.6 MB