So one day I decided to load up Battlefront II once more and host a Jinglin' Town server. My thought was, maybe I could get a few people on, we'd do some normal everyday Jinglin' Town shenanigans and do a bit of RPing.

Surprise surprise, nobody came. And that's when I realized: nobody has Christmas in Jinglin' Town anymore, or any of the old modmaps for that matter. Those days were long gone. Gone are the days of going to the SWBF Filefront page to check out the latest PotD, the ever-popular PC servers, and most of the abundantly diverse clans. Everybody's moved onto other things and taken Battlefront II's online culture with them. The people that play nowadays aren't the people that used to play. When I was a kid I thought BF2'd be around forever. Technically it is, but, not the naive way I imagined.

I'm glad there's Gametoast, though. A nice holdout for all the original players, modders, maybe even RPers.

I remember when we first started to tinker with the game's brain (Lua for all you other people). I was really big on admin commands before and made an effort to teach everybody that had a PC server about them, but then I stumbled into a server hosted by a person that went by the name of Zerted. At the sight of the very first [NULL] and discovered just what its effects were, I was absolutely thrown in excitement (What is this sorcery?! ). I've always wanted to fly around the map finding hard-to-reach places, and Zerted's magical mod did just that. I remember him giving the download link to FC_29, and I remember the name of the link to this day (The site is down nowadays, though). I don't remember if he told me not to spread it around just yet or not (I could have possibly formed that memory myself), but either way I kept it mostly to myself and used it to garner more attention in my already-loved servers >=). Actually, I do remember giving the FC_29 link but I only gave it to people I liked . And then came the Fake Console's official release and everything was just awesome.

I think 2007-2009 was pretty much the Golden Age of BF2. Now I feel old...I wish I could go back to those days and play with all the people I once knew. Nobody's seen a blue police box anywhere, have they?


TL;DR blahblahblah good ol' days blah blah when I was your age we didn't have BFX blah nostalgia. Also post nostalgia of your own, I wanna hear it.

I just want to start off by saying, Christmas in jinglin town has never left my Addon folder . I remember when battlefront 2 first came out, my brother got it for his birthday and we were both so excited to play it my brother tore through the other presents very quickly just so we could try it out. I was only 8 at the time and my brother had just turned six. We played it on the ps2 for years, and it has become almost a tradition with my friends and I, we play to all the time. I decided about 2 years ago to try out battlefront for the computer, mostly for the mods and online. I have never looked back after that purchase, but I always get a little sad when I look over at my old ps2, gaining dust because my brother has moved on from battlefront.

an new era beginns. and the star wars game of it will be 1313 or sw battlecry

I remember when I first played battlefront in 2009 (I had played it a few times at friend's houses before but had no idea what was going on because I was too young) I thought that the map extended forever in every direction and wanted to explore (for example leave the utapau sinkhole) then in february this year I bought bf2 for pc so I could make my own maps but ran into the dreaded munge problem so then I went on google and found some forum( i don't remember which one it was) that linked to the faq here and BOOM i had discovered gametoast. It helped me get the munge fix and I started modding. I then fed off of everything here but didn't get an account until bf2 started crashing and I couldn't fix it with what I could get from the forums so in june i got an account, made a thread, and so yeah. I miss the old days too especially early 2012 when everything about modding like height in ze and placing objects and seeing them appear in game. Theres my rant/history in modding

I actually saw that christmas in jinglin town server but didn't have any time to join.

i remember back when mods were big, my friends and i would sometimes just pick a mod map and explore the whole thing, especially Rhen Var Temple and its caves and underworld ish area with floating props. i also remember all of the rpgs that people would do. i used to host some pretty good ones about 2 years ago (well maybe 3 years) but after awhile even then i noticed a decrease in the number of good rpers and an increase in unoriginal, and simply put boring, strict rpgs with no real story line.

i was talking on xfire with a friend awhile ago about the rpgs, we thought about finding some old friends to make a good rpg server but we found that most of our friends don't even play swbf2 much anymore, and that we outselves didn't play nearly as much as we used to.

i can almost never find a good mod server, and sometimes find people who have no idea what mods even are.

with christmas coming i feel swbf2 online may get a little smaller, at least for awhile.

Dakota wrote:

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all i really want to do right now on swbf2 is get a good server up and play a few different mods.

Haha, me too! I really wish I could find a dmi server, I think it would be really fun to play.

Dakota wrote: i can almost never find a good mod server, and sometimes find people who have no idea what mods even are.

I've run across people like that too. I'm always happy though, because then I can say, "Buddy, you're about to get your mind blown. Just go to StarWarsBattlefront.Filefront.com and let the amazingness begin.

I actually got to SWBFII too late to really indulge in any nostalgic moments. By the time I started playing online, the multiplayer community had really died down.

I first got battlefront for Christmas on my Xbox 3 or 4 years ago, I spent every hour of my free time playing it, one day I found out that you could make mods with BF2 on the computer, and I got it for my birthday 2 1/2 years ago. I never got to experience the height of the Battlefront community but I'm glad GT is around to keep the community alive.

I remember when I first saw a family member playing Battlefront II. I thought it was the demo at first, but I saw the case... And that's how years of Battlefront II playing started - first on the PC, then on the brand-new Playstation 2!

Online play was fun and intriguing for a first time playing FPS on an online game. In many ways, it was enjoyably frustrating, in others, a sense of ecstasy when my online team smoked the other team, and being near the top of the map's leaderboards.

I got into modding relatively late, when the number of online players started diminishing. That's when I really began loving the game. Even after a series of calamaties with my map project and laptop, I still cherish and reminince about the good old days, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

[TFA]Padawan_Fighter wrote:I think 2007-2009 was pretty much the Golden Age of BF2. Now I feel old...I wish I could go back to those days and play with all the people I once knew.

I agree with you whole-heartedly. The closest I can get to the good old days are inviting my childhood friends over to play a local match of BF2, but even now, years later, they're getting a bit grumpy that I'm pulling them away from their precious Call of Duty or whatnot

Ahh the FC mod. A merger of the Fake Console Mod and the FreeCam Mod. Later becoming v1.3 after the release of v1.2. It was fun discovering new abilities. First showing off flying, teleporting players into Hoth Hunt's force field restricted area, and the first server to spawn human players as Gamorrean Guards are events I fondly look back on. Dominating the map against unsuspecting, surprised players was too easy as a guard. I wish more servers ran the "spawn as locals" script. Trying to run around on the space ships was interesting too. I never did walk on an asteroid... Trying to test and show off the increase/decrease speed and jump commands failed. Everyone thought it was lag.

This was a nice topic to see after not visiting GT for months. Instead of developing in my free time I've been doing more life things like learning dancing, ice skating, skiing, snowboarding, broomball, etc... before I start getting too old to take a hard fall. And of course graduate school takes up all of my non-free time, but I manage to play SWBF2 once every few months.

My website is still running. There's some router issue which is preventing it from being viewable from everyone not on the internal network... Don't know when I'll get around to fixing it. It was always used more by spiders than people anyway.

If I wasn't done testing FC_29 then I would have told you not to distribute it. I didn't know what all of the commands would do when run by a non-host player. If any player could simply decide to fly away or gain a shield, online play would have been destroyed. If I gave it to you, we were probably testing that.

(I'm not back)

Dang.I missed out on a lot.

DylanRocket wrote:Dang.I missed out on a lot.

I had that same feeling when I joined, back in late 2010.

My best friend Duke told me about SWBF2 back in 2008 or so. I didn't have a proper PC or internet access. I went and played SWBF2 on the PS2 at a friend of Duke's. I fell in love with the game instantly, after one CW match on Mos Eisley, and one space battle over Yavin.

I didn't have a PS2, only a GC. So if I wanted to play it, I needed a PS2. So I shoveled snow to make the money I needed, combined with $50 from my dad, and some from my grandpa, I bought a PS2 and SWBF2. For years I had fun with it. But I then I heard about modding. Something I had never been exposed to. I looked it up online at my library, and saw how awesome modding was. Then I was left with a problem.

I didn't have a PC I could run it on. Not until early 2010, my grandpa gave me a little Acer netbook. Didn't even have a disc drive. So then I had to wait until June of 2010, got an external disc drive, and SWBF2 for the PC.

Then SWBF Files became my home, would download mods onto my flash drive at the library and bring them home. But then I wanted to mod myself. So I needed to get the mod tools, which didn't happen until July. Then I found Gametoast as I started modding, although not at first. Initially I only had the mod tools docs to help me.

By August I released my first map, Ryloth: Nabat and I never looked back. Now I'm the founder and Executive Director of Frayed Wires Studios, our modding team and budding indie developer. Marth and I intend to carry the torch past SWBF2 one day, with plenty of plans in the works.

ohai it's Zerted.

Ahhh, I remember the very first time I tried Star Wars Battlefront - 'twas a dark and (not so) stormy night on Marth (LOL, *March) 31st, 2005. I was at my (then) best friend Patrick's house for his 10th birthday party, and I believe his awesome dad rented Star Wars Battlefront for the PS2. I remember being like one of the first ones to get to play it since I don't think they had a 4-way controller splitter thingy or whatever, or at least it didn't work for whatever reason. I remember very distinctly: the very first map we played was Kashyyyk: Islands and I spawned as a CIS (I pronounced it "sis", like "cist", LOL, back then) rocketeer - when I shot my first rocket, I was like "Whoa! Snazzy flare effect on dat rocket, yo!" I actually didn't really enjoy the game at first because it was so dark, lol, and the stupid wookiees kept killing me.

Next thing I knew it was Christmas of 2005 and my parents bought me and my brother a (crappy) used Xbox! Heh, they got me a cool Batman Begins controller that was substantially smaller than the original Xbox paperweight controllers - I had small hands back then. The only games we got with it though were Namco Museum, Lord of the Rings: The Third Age, Madden NFL 2005 (for my brother; football bores the skull out of me :p), and one other game that I can't remember. Then, around like, March of the succeeding year, my brother and I bought Star Wars Battlefront - we didn't have a clue that custom content was a thing for it! D: After grinding like 55,555^Q (where Q = 55,555) hours away on it, my brother found out about Star Wars Battlefront II! Not too long after it was released, we bought it in like early 2006, ground even more hours away on that, and then our Xbox pretty much died lol soon after we got our Xbox 360 for Christmas of 2006. :p

It wasn't until around Christmas of 2007 that I finally asked for and received the PC version of SWBF2, but I ran into the STUPID crash-to-desktop issue with sound, but that was finally remedied after asking around the GameSpot forums (SHUT UP LOL, I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT GAMETOAST YET!) and finding out that I had to enable freakin Stereo Mix... *sigh* So dumb... But yeah, anyway, I gained my now-best friend Redwiz around November of that year and I finally showed him Star Wars Battlefront II when he slept over in January of the coming year and we made this crappy video, haha. Redwiz then acquired SWBF2 for the PC nearly immediately afterwards and found out about mods and maps after several months. The first one I ever played was Ryloth: Fueling Station, and then the Capital Down map pack, and then Christmas In Jinglin' Town, which still remains to be my all-time favorite.

Eventually, in early February of 2010, we were visiting a park in our neighborhood and he said we should make a map of it! Aaaaand you all know the story from there. (See PIO and ME5 threads.)

It's so awesome to read these kinds of stories. all of which lead up to finding the SWBF modding community. Here's my long and probably boring story.

My friend introduced me to Star Wars Battlefront when I was around 10 years old. We had so much fun playing the original game on PS2. The only thing I didn't like about the original version was that (If I recall correctly) the Jedi were invincible unless you tossed them over the edge on Bespin: Platforms with explosives. We began creating youtube videos, recording discovered glitches (Origin of my nickname ) just messing around, and really having a good time. Unfortunately, being the children we were and not knowing of the existing equipment to do so, we recorded BF1 on the TV screen with a digital camera. That went on for a while until the release of SWBF2. By then most of my friends had lost interest. I'd sit in front of the tiny TV screen playing SWBFII by myself day after day trying so hard to get those legendary awards. I'd usually play as the Engineer Droid (Because it was the closest thing to the B1 Battle Droid during ground battles) Running around with that shotgun and destroying those Clone Troopers with flechette rounds was so enjoyable.

When I finally managed to finish all the legendary awards I learned about the cheat codes. The Invincibility and Alternate Soldiers were my favorites, Invincibility allowed for some more interesting glitches (I still remember the code for invincibility! up, up up, left, down, down, down, left, up, up, up, left, right) and Alternate Soldiers almost gave me the B1 Battle Droid I was hoping for. (no color markings on all the droids) Months after I got the game I discovered how to participate in the online play, I had found a very very very long ethernet cable that i'd drag all the way across the house to connect the router and PS2 every time I wanted to play online. Then when I went to bed or my parents asked me to, I rolled it back up for next time.

Then I got the PS3....without PS2 game support. I was a very naive child back then and had sold my PS2 and games, all but the Star Wars Battlefront series. So the game sat there, collecting dust along with my memory card with all the legendary awards....On Sep 15, 2011 Star Wars Battlefront II was on sale on Steam. I remember thinking "OH HEY! I Remember that game!" I quickly purchased, downloaded, ran the game, named my character Glitch, set up my controls, maxed out the game settings, and played for hours on end.

I discovered http://starwarsbattlefront.filefront.com/ downloaded and enjoyed tons of mods (I must have played every decent looking one at least once, went through every page) I thought "I have to try creating my own!" Did some research found the mod tools, attempted to create my own side mod...kept running into problems. I can't recall how I found SWBF Custom, but I joined on 2012-04-01 with dozens of questions in my head. Luckily for me the community was incredibly patient with all my ridiculous and spam like inquiries. I began releasing mods quickly, all becoming higher and higher quality the more experience I gained, I eventually found Gametoast to promote my mods further, and ask questions when I could not find answers on SWBF Custom. Right now I'm working on two mods that I aim to complete before retiring from modding. BFU and USM.

-Thanks for reading! - Glitch25

Well I have been playing BF2 on the PS2 since 2006 or so but I can never play online.

I still love this game to this day.I mod almost everyday but I never released a mod yet.

Glitch25 wrote:I eventually found Gametoast to promote my mods further, and ask questions when I could not find answers on SWBF Custom.

Off-Topic: Correct me if I'm wrong, but a lot of people on SWBF Custom are Gametoast members, including the owner. I'm 90% sure but this is really the only forum I regularly visit.

Cleb wrote:Off-Topic: Correct me if I'm wrong, but a lot of people on SWBF Custom are Gametoast members, including the owner. I'm 90% sure but this is really the only forum I regularly visit.

Yep, most are. I don't know why I didn't hear about this site sooner. xD

THEWULFMAN wrote:

DylanRocket wrote:Dang.I missed out on a lot.

By August I released my first map, Ryloth: Nabat and I never looked back. Now I'm the founder and Executive Director of Frayed Wires Studios, our modding team and budding indie developer. Marth and I intend to carry the torch past SWBF2 one day, with plenty of plans in the works.

That's very awesome that you guys may be moving onto other games in the future. However I feel the need to ask, will u guys stick around gametoast? I mean I know I've only been on this forum for a few months or so, but I don't think I speak for just myself when I say the day u two leave would be a sad one

Lemme put it this way. The two of us might end up being the last people modding the game on a large scale here on this site. So yeah, we'll be around. Assuming neither of us die or we have catastrophic equipment failures (and I've already had two laptops die on me, can't keep me down).

Personally, I've always thought this thread was a little vague. Those users that are new to this site, don't worry that you've missed the 'good ole days,' those will always be what you remember them as. My golden age of modding is multiple years later than the veterans on this site, but I still look back at it fondly.

My first experience with this game was at a friend's house, on his original xbox, hittin' up Star Wars Battlefront, and fanboying like crazy when Battlefront 2 was released. I then just played the game on and off on my ps2 for multiple years, until I found a friend who had never played it before. So, I invited him over to my house, and he was going to learn about one of the best shooters ever made. So, to start him off right, I did a google search for 'best battlefront 2 map' to see which one to start him off with, and the first link I saw was Mav's article on filefront about the 4 best maps that had been made: Pestox, Muunilist, Mos Eisley, and Operation Ferret Master. From there, I just got sucked into the modding world, and haven't regretted a moment of it.