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Limited Run editions arrive
As most people around here know, the third party company dedicated to making limited collector’s editions of retro video games, Limited Run Games, did a run of Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy, back in April. Obviously orders were limited for these, but they have finally begun to arrive at peoples’ homes over the last few weeks. I personally ordered the PC version of both JO and JA, and thought people might be interested in details of these editions.
First off, these come with a lot of stuff. I’ll be posting pictures of all of it, and go into a little detail on each thing.
Jedi Outcast (Overview)
Jedi Academy (Overview)
Jedi Outcast Concept Art
The concept art post cards are really cool. I’m sure these were somewhere on the internet before, but this was the first time I had seen them. One looks like the howler NPC that we didn’t end up seeing until JKA. Another is showing the Doomgiver’s underbelly, and the last is the outside of Kejim Outpost.
Jedi Academy Concept Art
I love saber hilt concept art and these are pretty darn close to what they look like in-game. The Yavin Runner shuttle design is pretty cool and I always thought it looked like something you’d see zooming around Coruscant. The other cards just basically show shots from random levels, which isn’t nearly as cool.
Retrospectives
Each come with a small booklet that has a little statement from Edwin Evans-Thirwell and Ed Smith, who I believe are gaming journalists. I feel this was a huge missed opportunity to have retrospectives from the developers themselves. These are very wordy and one talks mostly about Movie Battles, which I won’t deny is the most popular mode these days, but is odd to mention in a retrospective meant to talk about the game’s history itself, not a fan made mod. Nonetheless, still cool.
Thumb drive installers
One of the interesting parts of these bundles is the thumb drive. Both include an .exe installer for the game, and a PDF of the original guide that was included with the game back in the day. The installers seem to be brand new, and allow you to install each game without a disc at all. I verified that you can copy the installer, remove the drive, and install it from anywhere. Each is the latest version of the game (JK2 SP 1.03, MP 1.04 | JKA 1.01) and don’t need the disc to run. 😳 I was glad for this because I didn’t want to ever have to open the CD packaging (not that I’d need the installers anyway, but if Steam or GOG ever magically disappear, I’m still safe. It’s just nice that they actually are useful. I wasn’t expecting anything on these 2GB drives, but when I saw installers, I half expected them to just be disc dumps.
Thoughts?
Overall these are awesome collector’s editions. Huge thanks to Limited Run Games for making these and still giving so much love to games considered to be dead. These games will always live on here on JKHub, on the servers, in the communities, and now on our shelves and walls. I will be hanging at least one of the posters at my place, and the pins are going on my car sun visor, for sure. Anyone else get theirs? Any non-PC editions to share?

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Yep! I did not open mine, I want to keep it pristine, but I imagine it either has the same installer as the thumb drive or just the traditional disc version.
I’m no youtuber but if people want to see me show off this stuff I could!
Yeah, I don’t think they stated anything about the installer or the thumb drive at all other than it just being a thumb drive. I was pleasantly surprised. I do wish they had the JKA logo instead of the LF one but they are still cool.

Don't wanna look at the spoiler as I'm still waiting for mine and it's only been shipped a week ago. But yeah, HYPE!

Limited Run editions arrive
As most people around here know, the third party company dedicated to making limited collector’s editions of retro video games, Limited Run Games, did a run of Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy, back in April. Obviously orders were limited for these, but they have finally begun to arrive at peoples’ homes over the last few weeks. I personally ordered the PC version of both JO and JA, and thought people might be interested in details of these editions.
First off, these come with a lot of stuff. I’ll be posting pictures of all of it, and go into a little detail on each thing.
Jedi Outcast (Overview)
Jedi Academy (Overview)
Jedi Outcast Concept Art
The concept art post cards are really cool. I’m sure these were somewhere on the internet before, but this was the first time I had seen them. One looks like the howler NPC that we didn’t end up seeing until JKA. Another is showing the Doomgiver’s underbelly, and the last is the outside of Kejim Outpost.
Jedi Academy Concept Art
I love saber hilt concept art and these are pretty darn close to what they look like in-game. The Yavin Runner shuttle design is pretty cool and I always thought it looked like something you’d see zooming around Coruscant. The other cards just basically show shots from random levels, which isn’t nearly as cool.
Retrospectives
Each come with a small booklet that has a little statement from Edwin Evans-Thirwell and Ed Smith, who I believe are gaming journalists. I feel this was a huge missed opportunity to have retrospectives from the developers themselves. These are very wordy and one talks mostly about Movie Battles, which I won’t deny is the most popular mode these days, but is odd to mention in a retrospective meant to talk about the game’s history itself, not a fan made mod. Nonetheless, still cool.
Thumb drive installers
One of the interesting parts of these bundles is the thumb drive. Both include an .exe installer for the game, and a PDF of the original guide that was included with the game back in the day. The installers seem to be brand new, and allow you to install each game without a disc at all. I verified that you can copy the installer, remove the drive, and install it from anywhere. Each is the latest version of the game (JK2 SP 1.03, MP 1.04 | JKA 1.01) and don’t need the disc to run. 😳 I was glad for this because I didn’t want to ever have to open the CD packaging (not that I’d need the installers anyway, but if Steam or GOG ever magically disappear, I’m still safe. It’s just nice that they actually are useful. I wasn’t expecting anything on these 2GB drives, but when I saw installers, I half expected them to just be disc dumps.
Thoughts?
Overall these are awesome collector’s editions. Huge thanks to Limited Run Games for making these and still giving so much love to games considered to be dead. These games will always live on here on JKHub, on the servers, in the communities, and now on our shelves and walls. I will be hanging at least one of the posters at my place, and the pins are going on my car sun visor, for sure. Anyone else get theirs? Any non-PC editions to share?

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Please stop. There are multiple people that have this habit and it’s obnoxious. It happens way too often, and just results in pissing us off. We already get notifications for submissions.
We will get to it when we get to it. It’s not as simple as pressing a button, so we have to set aside a bit of time to take care of them.

If you get directed to this thread going forward, you are guilty of this and I, or another staff member, are asking you to stop.

There are no physical manuals, everything I pictured is what is included. I do wish they had them. The PDF versions on the thumb drives are the same as the ones here and here.

@Apprentice @Teancum your OCD has been saved, it's back.

To be clear, I never removed it intentionally, I'm not sure how it disappeared honestly.

This issue should be fixed now.

I had chosen to pass on this, mostly because I don't need more stuff laying around. I wish I had gotten them for two reasons - the posters would be wonderfully tacky on my wall, and I did not think the USB drives would have an EXE installer.
Regardless - neato!

There's always confusion regarding the requirements for audio files for JK2 and JKA. Hopefully this thread can lay it out plainly for those with issues. It's always recommended to use the free program called Audacity, since it can do a lot of simple things easily, and is cross platform. There is also a free web tool that people use nowadays as well here.
For voice audio files (either the cutscene lines or action lines in the misc folder):
MP3 Sample rate: 44100Hz (sometimes shown as 44.1kHz) Must be mono (1 channel, as opposed to stereo with 2 channels, left/right) Bitrate can be anything (higher the bitrate, the better quality, but bigger filesize - a good medium is 192kbps) For music audio files:
MP3 Sample rate: 44100Hz Must be stereo (2 channels, left/right) Bitrate can be anything For effects (weapons, force, environment):
Looping sounds (example: a fire burning, water running, or saber hum):
WAV Bit depth: 16 bit PCM Sample rate can be anything Must be mono Non-looping sounds:
Same as voice files

This is a bit late, but voting did automatically close at the right time. We didn't have a ton of entries, but those that did enter, really brought their A-game, so I'm really glad for that! The votes are in, and our winner is...
Din Djarin by @Doughnuts

Some people may not be surprised, because this model is outstanding and of course is the main character of the show itself. We had a couple decent models before, but this one really takes the cake. Doughnuts has really come into his own skin with his models over the last couple years, and this is really something to be proud of. Nice work, mate.
The other entries were awesome. Loved the Ice Spider, Boba, and Calodan. Nice work to @ChalklYne, @bigphil2695, and @biggs.
 

This is a bit late, but voting did automatically close at the right time. We didn't have a ton of entries, but those that did enter, really brought their A-game, so I'm really glad for that! The votes are in, and our winner is...
Din Djarin by @Doughnuts

Some people may not be surprised, because this model is outstanding and of course is the main character of the show itself. We had a couple decent models before, but this one really takes the cake. Doughnuts has really come into his own skin with his models over the last couple years, and this is really something to be proud of. Nice work, mate.
The other entries were awesome. Loved the Ice Spider, Boba, and Calodan. Nice work to @ChalklYne, @bigphil2695, and @biggs.
 

There are no physical manuals, everything I pictured is what is included. I do wish they had them. The PDF versions on the thumb drives are the same as the ones here and here.

Many people have received them already, so I’m sure they will arrive soon. Probably are getting shipped out in waves.

Submissions are closed and we’ve got a total of 4 submissions to the Mandalorian contest. The winner will be decided by your votes, so get them in.
All votes will be visible, so keep that in mind before any attempts to fake votes.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

This is a bit late, but voting did automatically close at the right time. We didn't have a ton of entries, but those that did enter, really brought their A-game, so I'm really glad for that! The votes are in, and our winner is...
Din Djarin by @Doughnuts

Some people may not be surprised, because this model is outstanding and of course is the main character of the show itself. We had a couple decent models before, but this one really takes the cake. Doughnuts has really come into his own skin with his models over the last couple years, and this is really something to be proud of. Nice work, mate.
The other entries were awesome. Loved the Ice Spider, Boba, and Calodan. Nice work to @ChalklYne, @bigphil2695, and @biggs.
 

Always happy to see anything related to JK3 still doing well even commercially 😄 

This is a bit late, but voting did automatically close at the right time. We didn't have a ton of entries, but those that did enter, really brought their A-game, so I'm really glad for that! The votes are in, and our winner is...
Din Djarin by @Doughnuts

Some people may not be surprised, because this model is outstanding and of course is the main character of the show itself. We had a couple decent models before, but this one really takes the cake. Doughnuts has really come into his own skin with his models over the last couple years, and this is really something to be proud of. Nice work, mate.
The other entries were awesome. Loved the Ice Spider, Boba, and Calodan. Nice work to @ChalklYne, @bigphil2695, and @biggs.
 

This is a bit late, but voting did automatically close at the right time. We didn't have a ton of entries, but those that did enter, really brought their A-game, so I'm really glad for that! The votes are in, and our winner is...
Din Djarin by @Doughnuts

Some people may not be surprised, because this model is outstanding and of course is the main character of the show itself. We had a couple decent models before, but this one really takes the cake. Doughnuts has really come into his own skin with his models over the last couple years, and this is really something to be proud of. Nice work, mate.
The other entries were awesome. Loved the Ice Spider, Boba, and Calodan. Nice work to @ChalklYne, @bigphil2695, and @biggs.
 

This is a bit late, but voting did automatically close at the right time. We didn't have a ton of entries, but those that did enter, really brought their A-game, so I'm really glad for that! The votes are in, and our winner is...
Din Djarin by @Doughnuts

Some people may not be surprised, because this model is outstanding and of course is the main character of the show itself. We had a couple decent models before, but this one really takes the cake. Doughnuts has really come into his own skin with his models over the last couple years, and this is really something to be proud of. Nice work, mate.
The other entries were awesome. Loved the Ice Spider, Boba, and Calodan. Nice work to @ChalklYne, @bigphil2695, and @biggs.
 

This is a bit late, but voting did automatically close at the right time. We didn't have a ton of entries, but those that did enter, really brought their A-game, so I'm really glad for that! The votes are in, and our winner is...
Din Djarin by @Doughnuts

Some people may not be surprised, because this model is outstanding and of course is the main character of the show itself. We had a couple decent models before, but this one really takes the cake. Doughnuts has really come into his own skin with his models over the last couple years, and this is really something to be proud of. Nice work, mate.
The other entries were awesome. Loved the Ice Spider, Boba, and Calodan. Nice work to @ChalklYne, @bigphil2695, and @biggs.
 

This is a bit late, but voting did automatically close at the right time. We didn't have a ton of entries, but those that did enter, really brought their A-game, so I'm really glad for that! The votes are in, and our winner is...
Din Djarin by @Doughnuts

Some people may not be surprised, because this model is outstanding and of course is the main character of the show itself. We had a couple decent models before, but this one really takes the cake. Doughnuts has really come into his own skin with his models over the last couple years, and this is really something to be proud of. Nice work, mate.
The other entries were awesome. Loved the Ice Spider, Boba, and Calodan. Nice work to @ChalklYne, @bigphil2695, and @biggs.
 

Submissions are closed and we’ve got a total of 4 submissions to the Mandalorian contest. The winner will be decided by your votes, so get them in.
All votes will be visible, so keep that in mind before any attempts to fake votes.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Submissions are closed and we’ve got a total of 4 submissions to the Mandalorian contest. The winner will be decided by your votes, so get them in.
All votes will be visible, so keep that in mind before any attempts to fake votes.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

@Aldro Koon all fair points. I should clarify not all servers are like what I or Bubbles described. I haven’t played on JoF in years so can’t really vouch for that but I have definitely been kicked or banned in the past on other serves for even just a mistaken saber hit on AFK people. It’s kind of ridiculous how some admins can be about it. Pretty sure one of my names is permabanned on KR for something like that.