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'Read Me'
Risen 2 - Mod Starter
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This tool was developed to make mods installation process more easy
and compatible with any Risen 2 language versions.

If you just want to download & play game with mods, then it is
enough to:

1. Launch Risen 2 MDS.
2. Click on "Internet MoDs DB" in main menu.
3. Download needed mods*.
4. Select & then install needed mods from your offline list.

* - After downloading needed mods, Inernet connection will be not
needed anymore.


Main Risen 2 - Mod Starter features:
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- Mods Online DB*
- Providing short text info and image-preview for every mod.
- Installing few mods (in any combinations) at same time.
- Deleting installed mods by clicking on one "Delete" button.
- Supporting all Risen 2 language versions (recompiling strings.pak)
- Steam Patches compatible**
- Automatic R2MDS updater (version checker & updater).
- SaveGames manager***
- Integrated Tools****
- Multilanguage interface (RU/DE/EN/UA/IT/PL/CZ/ES).


* You are able to download/upload new mods from/to InetDB.

** If new patch will rewrite any of already installed mods,
then on next R2MDS launch, it will automatically delete all
untouched mod files and will ask user to reinstall mods to
make them works again.

*** Changing SaveGames locations on request, optionally making
SaveGames from different mods combinations not compatible/
not visible)

**** Risenaut, RisenPAK, RisenTAB, RisenCSV, Risen 2 Tune, FNT
Editor. In "...\R2MDS\Readme\" folder you can find all
readme files for any of this tools.



Requirements
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- Installed Risen 2: Dark Waters v.1.0.1168 or higher.
- Admin permissions for install & run R2MDS.



License terms
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Copyright © 2012 Igor Vitol <http://forum.worldofplayers.de/forum/members/86717>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

IN CASE IF SOME RULE BECOME LEGALLY INVALID, THEN IT HAS TO BE REPLACED BY THAT LEGALLY VALID RULE WHICH COMES CLOSEST TO THE ORIGINAL RULE, IN THIS CASE OTHER RULES ARE STILL BINDING.



Credits
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- Interface translations:

- Translation to the Italian language by Xardasrule (aka xardas66).
- Translation to the German language by foobar.
- Translation to the Polish language by Macrentofeth.
- Translation to the Czech language by El Kamil.
- Translation to the Spanish language by Ancalagon el negro.

- R2MDS background inteface image by Odin68.

- Risenaut (PAK View), RisenPAK, RisenTAB, RisenCSV by NicoDE
(Copyright © 2009 Nico Bendlin <[email protected]>)



Additional info
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Additional info, instructions, manuals and discussion you can find in this forum thread:

http://forum.worldofplayers.de/forum/threads/1147645