{"id":576,"date":"2008-05-05T18:15:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T18:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=576"},"modified":"2020-09-02T09:12:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T09:12:19","slug":"bg1-installing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/bg1-installing\/","title":{"rendered":"BG1: Installing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was first written in 2008, various links are no longer available, and I have lost some of my supporting documentation but you might still consider bits of this article useful. I have tagged it as deprecated since next time I play BG1 or II I plan to use the NWN engine.<\/p>\n<h3>21st Century Install<\/h3>\n<p>This is not as easy as it once was. The reasons for installing BG1 have changed with the advent of <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180605200933\/http:\/\/www.gibberlings3.net\/bg1npc\/index.php\">BG1 NPC Mod<\/a>, which requires <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketplane.net\/mambo\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=blogcategory&amp;id=143&amp;Itemid=98\">BGtutu<\/a> and the <a title=\"wonder where these have gone\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190608123208\/http:\/\/www.dudleyville.com:80\/index.html\">Dudleyville<\/a> fixes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><a name=\"goal\"><\/a>My Goal<\/h3>\n<p>I want to play <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180605200933\/http:\/\/www.gibberlings3.net\/bg1npc\/index.php\">BG1 NPC Mod<\/a> and MP. So I need <b>tutu<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Baldur&#8217;s Gate &amp; Tales of the Sword Coast installation disks<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketplane.net\/mambo\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=blogcategory&amp;id=143&amp;Itemid=98\">BGtutu<\/a> , this needs a file system policy<\/li>\n<li>The <b>BG1 NPC Mod.<\/b> which is <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180605200933\/http:\/\/www.gibberlings3.net\/bg1npc\/index.php\">available here&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The basis of the file system policy needs to be based on the contents of <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111219164220\/http:\/\/forums.pocketplane.net:80\/index.php?topic=15921.msg247812\">this thread<\/a> &#8220;True need of two installations!&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.pocketplane.net\/index.php\/board,46.0.html\">this forum<\/a> &#8220;BG1Tutu General&#8221; at Pocket Plane Group. G3 also have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gibberlings3.net\/mods\/tools\/mit\/\">Multi Install Tool Mod<\/a> which is further documented in <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140330073451\/http:\/\/forums.gibberlings3.net\/index.php?showtopic=650\">this thread<\/a> &#8220;Discussion: Multiple BG2 Installations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3><a name=\"links\"><\/a>Other Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141122124045\/http:\/\/forums.gibberlings3.net:80\/index.php?showforum=96\">The G3 Multi Install Tool forum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What I did<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Install BG2 + TOB + Bladurdash on the Aurora<\/li>\n<li>Install BG1 and ToSC on the Aurora<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>While tidying up<\/h3>\n<p>I found <a title=\"A .pdf on instructions on how to to backup and restore a patched BG2 folder\" href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/BG2Filesystems.pdf\">BG2Filesystems<\/a>, on backing up a good BG folder config<\/p>\n<h3>To do next<\/h3>\n<p>I shall next<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>look for the portrait file enhancements I used for BG1 and<\/li>\n<li>install BG1 on the other computer<\/li>\n<li>clean up my BG2 install on the other computer<\/li>\n<li>get hold of <i>Gatekeeper<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was first written in 2008, various links are no longer available, and I have lost some of my supporting documentation but you might still consider bits of this article useful. 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