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Eltheron
Senior Scribe
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 Posted - 31 Jul 2011 : 19:38:09
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Everyone in the world who loved Baldur's Gate has probably done this already, but I'm having so much fun with it I had to come and tell someone. 
I re-installed my BG1 and BG2+ToB games, then found this amazing site with all sorts of mods. One of them, called BGtutu allows you to modify the entire BG1 such that it plays in the BG2 framework.
So I'm actually running BG1 with the rules and interface for BG2. It's killer fun. I have a level one mage with a familiar, wandering around the sword coast. AWESOME!
Anyway, I'm sure everyone else here has probably already done this, but it was totally new for me. 
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Hawkins
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 01 Aug 2011 : 01:42:02
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| I actually have installed it twice before and then had stuff happen to the PC so I was not able to play it. I have been thinking about trying it again recently. Do you happen to have the url of the site that you downloaded if from? |
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Eltheron
Senior Scribe
740 Posts |
Posted - 01 Aug 2011 : 02:15:27
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Yep, you have to do full/complete installs of both Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, then you can use the free mod called "EasyTuTu".
The site is located HERE. http://www.usoutpost31.com/easytutu/
There's one version if you have the expansion BG2: Throne of Bhaal, and a different one if you only have BG2: Shadows of Amn.
In addition to the main mod, I installed the hotfixes mod and also the degreenifier (explained on the same page). All the mods are free. 
So awesome!
One hilarious thing I've discovered, you can use the standard cheats (I know, I know, cheating's bad) to give your level 1 character all the best items and spells from Throne of Bhaal and totally kick butt, lol!
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"The very best possible post-fourteenth-century Realms lets down those who love the specific, detailed social, political and magical situation, with its thousands of characters, developed over forty years, and want to learn more about it; and those who'd be open to a new one with equal depth, which there just isn't time to re-produce; and those repelled, some past the point of no return, by the bad-taste-and-plausibility gap of things done to the world when its guardianship was less careful."
--Faraer |
Edited by - Eltheron on 01 Aug 2011 02:18:26 |
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bladeinAmn
Learned Scribe
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Zireael
Master of Realmslore
Poland
1190 Posts |
Posted - 01 Aug 2011 : 19:57:38
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| TuTu is buggy and not updated in ages. Use BGT (Baldur's Gate Trilogy) instead. I can confirm that it works fine. And has all the perks of Tutu. |
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Thelonius
Senior Scribe
Spain
731 Posts |
Posted - 01 Aug 2011 : 20:45:48
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| Read about it long ago and felt like using it, but after I installed BG1 I just felt like I prefered remembering the feelings it first caused me (with my very first char being a blue skinned wizard and dying one time and another), and decided not to install it. Both games are very good, but some how I feel like them being good for different reasons. |
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Lily M Green
Learned Scribe
Australia
115 Posts |
Posted - 01 Aug 2011 : 20:52:04
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I find the best sites with the most up to date Baldur's Gate / Infinity Engine engine game mods are the Spellhold Studios and Gibberlings 3 modding community websites. Really well organised with literally hundreds of mods from (most useful) widescreen and text magnifier mods, which will leave your game vanilla but make it a whole lot easier to play through to full fan NPC mods (which - apparently - vary in quality from not too bad to truly awful).
Now, if only I had a computer that will actually run the games without keeling over... |
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Edited by - Lily M Green on 01 Aug 2011 20:52:39 |
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skychrome
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 02 Aug 2011 : 01:04:44
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Thanks for the reminder Eltheron! Actually I played BG2 and ToB ten times over but never started BG1 because I wanted to play it with Tutu, which I found too complicated to make it run.
I should have another try for it I guess. Best computer games series ever! I wish they would still make games like that. |
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Seravin
Master of Realmslore
Canada
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Posted - 05 Aug 2011 : 03:11:49
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| Would be so amazing if they could just take everything from BG1 and 2 and make it modern graphics/sounds. *sigh* I wish! I'd never leave the Sword Coast/Amn. |
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Kno
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 12 Aug 2011 : 11:18:32
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The Curt Jester
Acolyte
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Posted - 16 Aug 2011 : 05:35:25
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Speaking of remaking BG1 with a newer engine and graphics, there is a group of people remaking BG1 using Neverwinter Nights 2. Not only are they designing the areas to look like the BG1 areas did, but they are doing custom scripting to get all the quests and stuff to work as they did in the original game. The project seems to be nearing completion. Check out the link if you want to see the discussion about it and some screenshots: http://social.bioware.com/forum/Neverwinter-Nights-2/NwN-2-Modules/The-Baldur039s-GAte-remake-thread-10--I-think-3120312-1.html
You can view screen shots here, though I'm fairly certain they are outdated and a lot more work has been put into the areas since these were taken: http://s403.photobucket.com/albums/pp113/drechner_BG/#!cpZZ1QQtppZZ32
I doubt that I'll enjoy it as much as the original, but it does look interesting enough for me to try it to see how it works out. Certainly a lot of effort has already gone into it! |
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Edited by - The Curt Jester on 16 Aug 2011 05:37:52 |
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Joran Nobleheart
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USA
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Old Man Harpell
Senior Scribe
USA
498 Posts |
Posted - 30 Aug 2011 : 21:44:43
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I will definitely give BGtutu a look, if nothing else. The only alteration I've ever used on my Baldur's Gate games was the XP Cap remover, but I would certainly have no objection to an upgraded interface.
Out of curiosity - are there similar mods available for the Icewind Dale games? |
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rhune
Acolyte
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Posted - 23 Sep 2011 : 17:42:27
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| Have yet to try Tutu, but maybe I'll give this a shot after I finish my solo cleric/mage run. |
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bladeinAmn
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 24 Sep 2011 : 05:11:52
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Originally posted by Old Man Harpell
I will definitely give BGtutu a look, if nothing else. The only alteration I've ever used on my Baldur's Gate games was the XP Cap remover, but I would certainly have no objection to an upgraded interface.
Out of curiosity - are there similar mods available for the Icewind Dale games?
There's also an Unfinished Business mod for BG1, which unlocks content that's already in the game engine but stayed locked at the time of release (some of which made the game more challenging, some of which made the PC & party run around a bit much; either way it's your choice to do put them in the game or not when you install the mod). BG2's Unfinished Business mod does the same thing. You might find it interesting, even if the other mods don't do it for you. Oh, and there are mods which make the both BG 1 & 2 more in line with P&P 2e rules.
There are IWD mods, at least for IWD1:
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/icewind_dale/mod_guide/page1
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Edited by - bladeinAmn on 24 Sep 2011 05:17:03 |
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Light
Learned Scribe
Australia
233 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2011 : 07:50:11
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Since one guy above me was talking about a BG1 Module in NWN2 I thought it suits to tell everyone that BG2 is likewise being remade as a Dragon Age: Origins module. It's called the Baldur's Gate II Redux. I'm too lazy to find its actual site or blog or wherever the developer hang out but there are numerous trailers.
Here is one of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq4n_qVo21k
and here is part of the introduction remade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2lzUaFPNc&feature=related |
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Thelonius
Senior Scribe
Spain
731 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2011 : 11:34:08
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quote:
Originally posted by Light
Since one guy above me was talking about a BG1 Module in NWN2 I thought it suits to tell everyone that BG2 is likewise being remade as a Dragon Age: Origins module. It's called the Baldur's Gate II Redux. I'm too lazy to find its actual site or blog or wherever the developer hang out but there are numerous trailers.
Here is one of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq4n_qVo21k
and here is part of the introduction remade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2lzUaFPNc&feature=related
Yah I saw that too, but for the moment I think just Irenicus's lair was done. |
"If you are to truly understand, then you will need the contrast, not adherence to a single ideal." - Kreia
"I THINK I JUST HAD ANOTHER NEAR-RINCEWIND EXPERIENCE"- Discworld's Death frustrated after Rincewind scapes his grasp... again.
"I am death, come for thee" - Nimbul, from Baldur's Gate I just before being badly spanked
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Light
Learned Scribe
Australia
233 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2011 : 02:59:09
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Originally posted by Thelonius
Yah I saw that too, but for the moment I think just Irenicus's lair was done.
Yeah it's a long way from being finished. |
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Baldur's Gate 1 with BGtutu is awesome!
