This is for those who don't have the Collector's Edition or Pre-Order Edition of BG2 but would like to access the items for sale by Joluv in the Copper Coronet and Deidre in the Adventure Mart. These merchants will appear when the files are installed. This update was being distributed primarily by BGDungeon, but as BGDungeon seems to have disappeared, I offer them here. Thanks to Interplay and BioWare for allowing these files to be distributed, so that all BG2 players have access to the same items.
This is a mod that adds in the content originally included in BG2's Preorder/Collectors edition version to the base CD version. It is mirrored here for archival purposes. Note this is included with the game already if you play Beamdog's Enhanced Edition.
2001 - May - 5
The files AR0406.BCS and AR0702.BCS contained in this archive are the "Bonus Merchant" files (actually area control scripts) that cause the merchants Joluv and Deidre to appear in the Copper Coronet and Adventurer's Mart respectively.
They are being provided by myself due to their primary source, BGDungeon.com, having gone offline, perhaps permanently.
These files have been approved for download by BioWare and Interplay, as they do not contain executable code, nor any of the other bonuses provided by the Collector's Edition and Pre-Order CD's, and make the game fair for everyone by allowing all players access to the same weaponry.
To use:
Simply extract the files AR0406.BCS and AR0702.BCS contained in this archive to your Baldur's Gate 2 Override folder, and quit/restart BG2 if it's already running.
Kevin Dorner
mrkevvy@rogers.com
aka Kivan Do'Urner, solo CG E F/M/T
aaka Elmonster, solo LN/NG H M
This file was obtained from my webpage at http://www.baldurdash.org