i Entire installation instructions for the Baldur's Gate Mega-Mod

3.
NEVER ENDING JOURNEY (NEJ)
NEJ integrates the game Icewind Dale in extended and improved form
into Baldur's Gate. NEJ is regarded by many players as the best game
at all. So far the game is unfortunately not yet finished.
Earlier NEJ was a component of the megamods. Presently, however, the current versions of NEJ
are not compatible with most of the other mods of the megamods. The "old" compatible version
used here is no more supported by the mod's author. Above all there are absent a lot from
the content which NEJ has presently.
There are attempts to integrate this great Mod in future into the megamod. Nowadays the current versions of
NEJ should be played, however, as an independent installation. The current stand-alone installation for it is:
SoA + ToB + ToB patch + Baldurdash-WeiDU v1.6.6 + BGT v1.05 + BGTTweaks + TS v7.02 + NeJ2 v6.9.1 +
the new patch v6.9.4. + BGT Songs.
For the installation of NeJ2 v6.9.4 you must use BD-WeiDU v1.6.6 instead of BG2 Fixpack! A special BGT.TP2
file is required! Look at http://vlad.blackwyrmlair.net/files/Setup-BGT.tp2
You can restore optional the original BG1 songs. Install them at the end of your installation. Before transition
from BG1 to BG2 you should uninstall these songs and return to the songs from BG2, TS and NeJ2.
NEJ2v6.9.4 is compatible neither with Big Picture-WeiDU with nor with BG2 Fixpack; if you try to install it, it
ruins your whole installation!
If you want to play NEJ with BP within the megamod, you must use NEJ2 v4.2, the patch v6.02 and the BGT-
NEJ v1 patch. There is an incompatibility between NEJ and CtB in the kind of a small number of creatures that
uses the same animation what looks a little bit funny. This problem will be solved with "Infinity Animations".
3.1. Never Ending Journey 2 v42b
~SETUP-NEJ2BIFFER.TP2~ ~SETUP-NEJ2.TP2~ ~SETUP-NEJGUI.TP2~
This mod is a completely independent game without any connection to the BG2 main-plot. If you go
through the portal in the north of the startposition in Irenicus dungeon, the party travels by time and
space to the Icewind Dale and brings you into the city of Eastheaven one hundred years before.
3.1.1. Unpack the file NEJ2v42b in your main SoA directory. The WeiDU-setup starts automatically, updates
itself and breaks off. Now you find the following files and folders in your list: Intro, NeJ, NeJ2,
tisunpack.exe, Setup-NeJ2.tp2, Setup-NeJ2.exe, oggdec.exe, NoCD.exe, NeJUninstaller.bat,
NeJ-Readme.txt, NeJAreasSounds.bat.
3.1.2. Unpack the NEJ2Biffer_v3 in you main SoA directory. Now you find the following files and folder in
your list: BP-NeJAreasSounds.bat, BP-NeJUninstaller.bat, BP-NeJUninstalierReal.bat, NeJ2Biffer-Readme.txt,
Setup-NeJ2Biffer.exe, Setup-NeJ2Biffer.tp2, SetupNeJ2GUI.exe, Setup-
NeJ2GUI.tp2, tisunpack.exe. The older tisunpack.exe is substituted with newer from the biffer
folder.
3.1.3. One or more files of this mod must be changed. This will be done by the patch from the folder BiG
World Fixpack.
3.1.4. Start the installation with the setup-NEJ2Biffer.exe. This starts setup-NEJ2.exe automatically. This installation
may last 20 minutes! Afterwards the DOS dialog appears:
Install Component 0 [Biffing NeJv42 files. Run this INSTEAD OF Setup-NeJ2.exe! Run Setup.NeJ2.exe
FIRST to uninstall!]? [I]nstall
Successfully installed [Biffing NeJv42 files. Run this INSTEAD OF Setup-NeJ2.exe! Run Setup.NeJ2.exe
FIRST to uninstall!] Press ENTER to exit
What should be done with all components that are NOT YET installed? [A]sk about each one?
Install Component 0 [Never Ending Journey v4.2 - Part 1]? [I]nstall
The next three components are replaced by the new mod BGTNeJ2
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