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Civilization 2 websites archive search and rescue side project

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Lightbulb  May 30th, 2021, 01:14 (This post was last modified: July 26th, 2021, 06:35 by Blake00.)
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Hey guys,

Today I just finished a huge side project I've been working on for weeks now over at CFC and wanna put copies in other Civ2 forums to make sure this important archive resource is accessible to all communities and not lost.

While doing my scenario search & rescue project and Civ video series prep work I've located quite a few old Civ2 scenario repositories! Using similar research and hunting techniques I've used over the years when tributing long lost libraries of fan games/mods for my retro gaming website Blake's Sanctum and also in real world work I do, I've used link lists on surviving sites to collect old addresses to paste into webarchive, each time I found a backup of a long lost site I'd then visit it's own links section to find even more long lost site links to paste into the archive search. This branching out takes days or even weeks but leads to huge results! The larger sites (in particular any Apolyton hosted ones) seem to have good backups with working downloads still, presumably due to someone manually backing them up to webarchive. Whereas the smaller sites often don't have working downloads due to the bot crawler only backing up small stuff. However the smaller sites are still useful as they often contain useful info, strategy guides and custom Civ2 graphic files that were more likely to get backed up than the scenarios due to their smaller file size. This was actually quite fun to make as visiting these sites is like stepping into a time machine to the late 90s! smile

Below are all the repositories/sources I've managed to find in my rescue efforts, please let me know if there's any other good dead or alive Civ2 scenario site/sources missing! Obviously there's quite a bit of crossover and duplication between them but many tend to have something the others don't.

Compilations & collections:
Large website repositories:
Civilization Mods/Scenarios:
Civ1 Soundtrack Overhaul mod, ToT Graphics for Civ2MGE mod, Star Wars Civ2 Scenario, Heroes of Might & Magic Civ2 Scenario, Wonxs C&C Civ2 Scenario Remaster, Red Alert 2 Siege of New York Civ2 Scenario, Civ2 Master of Magic Jr Scenario Remaster For ToT, Attilas Conquest - Play as Barbarians in every Civ game Scenario Series.

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Blake's Sanctum:
- TC Mods: Quest for Glory IV 3D Hexen, & Star Trek Doom 2
- Game Shrines: Age of Wonders, Babylon 5 Fan Games, Civilization, Command & Conquer, Elder Scrolls, Dune Games, Final Fantasy, Freelancer, Heroes of Might & Magic, Imperium Galactica, Master of Magic, Quest for Glory, Starflight, & Star Trek Games
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Lightbulb  May 30th, 2021, 01:16 (This post was last modified: July 22nd, 2021, 05:53 by Blake00.)
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Small website repositories (often a modders homepage):
Forums containing scenario files & links:
Other Civilization 2 websites (no scenarios):
RIP Lost Civilization 2 websites (no working backup found):
Like I said above, if you know of a great Civ2 related page missing from here let me know! smile

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Civilization Mods/Scenarios:
Civ1 Soundtrack Overhaul mod, ToT Graphics for Civ2MGE mod, Star Wars Civ2 Scenario, Heroes of Might & Magic Civ2 Scenario, Wonxs C&C Civ2 Scenario Remaster, Red Alert 2 Siege of New York Civ2 Scenario, Civ2 Master of Magic Jr Scenario Remaster For ToT, Attilas Conquest - Play as Barbarians in every Civ game Scenario Series.

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Blake's Sanctum:
- TC Mods: Quest for Glory IV 3D Hexen, & Star Trek Doom 2
- Game Shrines: Age of Wonders, Babylon 5 Fan Games, Civilization, Command & Conquer, Elder Scrolls, Dune Games, Final Fantasy, Freelancer, Heroes of Might & Magic, Imperium Galactica, Master of Magic, Quest for Glory, Starflight, & Star Trek Games
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May 30th, 2021, 11:21 (This post was last modified: May 30th, 2021, 11:43 by GreyWolf.)
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That's a lot of Civ2 material! I never got into CIv2, starting with Civ1 and moving immediately to Civ3. I did play a couple of Civ2 scenarios later - namely, the Fall of Rome one and Brown Man's Burden.
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July 22nd, 2021, 05:45 (This post was last modified: July 22nd, 2021, 05:46 by Blake00.)
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(May 30th, 2021, 11:21)GreyWolf Wrote: That's a lot of Civ2 material! I never got into CIv2, starting with Civ1 and moving immediately to Civ3. I did play a couple of Civ2 scenarios later - namely, the Fall of Rome one and Brown Man's Burden.

Ahh yes I know those ones. smile Yeah sadly it doesn't look like there's any Civ2 fans left here these days. But I still post copies of my work here for preservation purposes.

Have made some updates to the list including separating out the compilation CDs and download section zip backups from the regular websites into their own new section at the top of the list. In this new section I put all the CD scenario & map collections I've found (including a new one uploaded to ModDB by a guy called foo_jam2002 that has some interesting scenarios I haven't seen before in it), along with recently acquired huge classic Apolyton & CFC backup collection zips, and finally the new browsable backup collections I'm in the process of building on ModDB and Web Archive Library.

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Civilization Mods/Scenarios:
Civ1 Soundtrack Overhaul mod, ToT Graphics for Civ2MGE mod, Star Wars Civ2 Scenario, Heroes of Might & Magic Civ2 Scenario, Wonxs C&C Civ2 Scenario Remaster, Red Alert 2 Siege of New York Civ2 Scenario, Civ2 Master of Magic Jr Scenario Remaster For ToT, Attilas Conquest - Play as Barbarians in every Civ game Scenario Series.

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Blake's Sanctum:
- TC Mods: Quest for Glory IV 3D Hexen, & Star Trek Doom 2
- Game Shrines: Age of Wonders, Babylon 5 Fan Games, Civilization, Command & Conquer, Elder Scrolls, Dune Games, Final Fantasy, Freelancer, Heroes of Might & Magic, Imperium Galactica, Master of Magic, Quest for Glory, Starflight, & Star Trek Games
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