I lost my Merc's v11 mod & Merc's Hell's Ravine, due to a corrupted disk, Please HELP!

[Whiterabbit01 0]

Hi,  I  have always loved Battlefield 2.  In fact  the first three battlefield games are amongst my all time favorite games and I  every so often reinstall them when I get the urge.  

 

Recently I lost one of my Hard drives to a serious crash, which destroyed  the database of all my Battlefield  mods and maps.  Thankfully,   all of those I always backed up on CD's and DVD's. Over the past several weeks I've been adding   my backups to the database and finally got to all my Battlefield back ups.    Unfortunately, some of the disks  appear to have degraded as I can't  download certain files that I was after; namely, The Merc's v11 mod and  the Merc's Hells Ravine map. (not caliban55's Hells Canyon)

If anyone has a back up of  those two files I would be eternally grateful. 

 

I was one of Hayabusa's  mod and map tester's.  The reason I'm after the v11 mod is that  one of Hayabusa's  compatriots Andremino (aka MadOsga) who later went on to create the Marines mod, created an add-on mod that works with  the Merc's v11 mod, but none of the other versions.  The mod allowed certain  static objects such as trees and a few buildings to be destroyed,  leaving smoking ruins.  This really added   to the feel of the mod, especially The Darks maps.  Sadly during  testing of the mod for the multiplayer part of the game,  Adremino's wife passed away suddenly and he stopped working on the mod, but the single  player   part of the mod worked perfectly.

 

Regarding The Dark, I tested all of his maps as his αlpha and βeta tester  and still have  his last  map that we were still testing when he suddenly up sticks and disappeared from the community.  We were  finalising the testing of a particular map, with just a small adjustment to    a small section of the maps nav mesh and it would then be ready for  final release, but it never happened.  Whether it was a fall out  between one of the newer Beta testers, who criticized The Darks map, which I remember really upsetting him, or  his impending  finals at university, I really do not know the reason, but  he did disappear. With  his web site closing withing  several days and  trying to email him landed on deaf ears.  

 

 

I'm still adding to my database, with  over 100 DVD's with Battlefield 2  mods, and maps stored, so i may come across other stuff that's inaccessible.  Thankfully most of what's been lost on the corrupted disks I've been able to source from here and other sites that still host Battlefield 2   files. 

Regards

Whiterabbit01

 

p.s. 

If any ex members of the Mercenaries, Marines or MCC mod's see this, please do get in touch, in particular Homegrown, Hayabusa, MadOsga & Rono  Also  mappers such as Shane John, Ray Clovis, BigFoot, & BeerPizzaChips (who moved from Germany to Australia about 18 years ago.