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the problem is that the PSX Q2 'Remake' is never gonna be added officially to the licensed KexQ2 Remaster on Steam or any other platform and selectable from the menu like the other mission packs because of licensing and the fact that it used PSX Quake 2 as title
with Remasters and Remakes of official licensed products there is always the problem of licensing
for example Zaero mission pack was published by an actual commercial company that is now defunct so I dont know the commercial rights of it to who they belong
I dont know what happens when a software which rights are owned by a defunct company (that was not bought by another company but simply closed down) what happens to the rights if it becomes free software or whatnot
for example for Zaero from the Q2 fandom wiki it says:
>Patches were released to run it on the game's Linux port, and it is also compatible with Yamagi Quake 2 for modern systems. It is not currently compatible with the 2023 remaster.
but it doesnt say who patched it after the publishing company died
probably someone from the developement team that patched it and uploaded it to ModDB
if they wanna patch the latest version of Zaero thats on ModDB and make it run and add it to the mission packs in KexQ2 idk who they gotta ask for it and idk if they need the source code for the latest updated DLL
there was another commercial mission pack called Juggernaut and this one was published by a company that later got acquired by Activision so the rights are owned by Activision I guess
and another mission pack that ended up being called Quake II - Unseen because this one never managed to become a commercial product because the company (made of 3 guys) that made it never got to get a publisher and later the developer company closed down
this one hasnt been updated to run even on modern source ports it runs only on the original Q2 client from 1995
and then there is Quake II Netpack I: Extremities