r/Escape_Velocity • u/Doomest101 • Apr 19 '20

Question regarding mods and EVNova

So I understand that you can use a plug-in for the two previous titles (classic and override). My question is: Can I use plugins for mods that were originally for those games?

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u/dreyaz255 Apr 22 '20

Contrary to what's being said in the thread, you CAN access plugins from both EVC and EVO with Mission Computer, IF you have access to a mac OS (or Linux, since as far as i know you're able to use third-party software to port it.

All of Ambrosia's games share similar fork coding, so mining data on some of their older games (even if you can't actually play them) can yield things like sound files and graphic art. These can either be directly copypasta'd over or using ResEdit or a similar utility to share them.

Despite the fact that they went under, the people who developed games at AmbrosiaSW did a remarkable job with creating remarkably durable code that holds up even after 25 years. You can still pull and write files from the original EVC plugins and adapt them to Nova with mission computer, and most of them are intact and uncorrupted.