- Download WinPack300b and extract to your PC desktop.
- Insert the Island Thunder PC disc, cancel any autorun processes, locate and open the cd from your computer, you should see a few files around, the ones we need are the MP2 files in
data1.cab , do not do anything yet
- Open up winpack 300, you should see a few odd buttons, do not do anything to them, instead just press load packed file, proceed to open
data1.cab . You should see a bunch of folders when it is finished opening, the only ones we are concerned about are the ones containing MP2 in the name, there should be a few.
- Proceed to extract all of the folders with MP2 in their name to the desktop, when finished, you should have around 16-20 folders, you are going to have to rename all of them in a case sensitive way so that it will run. First find the folder
Mp2 , there should be nothing inside it besides one text file entitled modscount.txt , this will be the folder that you place the other renamed folders into.
- Start renaming the folders, example, a folder named
Mp2_Video would be renamed Video , then it would be placed inside the folder Mp2 , continue on with that process, there are two cases though that are different, the sound folders, and the shell folder. for sound there should be a Mp2_Sound and a few other folders like Mp2_Sound_RussianVoice , that roughly means that you have to rename that folder to RussianVoice , then place inside the sounds folder inside the Mp2 folder.
- If you extracted all the shell folders there should be a few like
Mp2_shell_english and ones with a few other languages listed after shell_, you will only need the version for your language region, so rename Mp2_shell_english to just shell , there should also be a Mp2_shell_art folder that goes within the shell folder. When finished renaming all the folders, there should be 16 items in your Mp2 folder, they are: Actor , Attachments , Briefings , Command Maps , Equip , Kits , Map , Mission , Model , Modscount.txt , save , shell , sound , textures , and video .
- Copy this file to a cd, or transfer the entire folder to your Mac.
- Now run the Island Thunder Mac patch, it fixes all the little problems that occur after the rough conversion. When the file is done, open the installer and follow the instructions the installer provides, also you might want to consider installing the Microsoft Mpeg 4 codecs that the video files use, after running the patch, move the
Mp2 folder to your Ghost Recon - Desert Siege/Ghost Recon Data/Mods folder.
- To play Island Thunder, you activate it like a mod, except it must be the 2nd mod on the active mod list (Desert Siege > Island Thunder), the first should always be Desert Siege.
- You might notice some sounds play a bit too loud, to fix this you will need a utility called SoundAPP](OS 9) or Sound Converter(OS X). You will need to convert all the
.wav sound files to .aif , nothing else is required (although you must convert all the files in the sounds folder, the sound/Russian voice and the sound/English folders as well).
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