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Fresh from your triumph on the starship Marathon®, you are seized by the rogue computer Durandal to do his bidding in a distant part of the galaxy. Within the ruins of an ancient civilization, you must seek the remnants of a lost clan and uncover their long-buried secrets. Battle opponents ancient and terrible, with sophisticated weapons and devious strategies, all the while struggling to escape the alien nightmare…

This release of Marathon 2: Durandal includes the classic graphics, and revamped high-definition textures and monsters from the Xbox Live Arcade edition.

1,850 downloads, 1 review, 1 screenshot, 5.0 rating

Hippieman found some higher resolution renders from the XBLA game on his hard drive. This plugin combines the scraps to give you mostly complete compiler, cyborg, fighter, green trooper, hunter, tick, and f'lickta replacements.

• There is no purple trooper, it will be low res. Sorry, Vidmasters.
• One frame of the brown hunter is missing, and will appear low-res
• The orange compiler was generated from the purple one using the hald clut that was used for the original plugin. All the compilers were squished vertically to fit the original XBLA aspect ratio.
• Not (yet?) included: the "Marine" sprites
• Not included: the Classic Marathon-style red compiler

Notes for version 0.2:

• Fixes black outlines in DDS conversion

1,954 downloads, 0 reviews, 4 screenshots

ULTRA HD Weapons for Marathon 2: Durandal. These ULTRA HD Weapons are based off the original HD versions by Freeverse.

The original HD versions were further enhanced 4 times the originals. These ULTRA HD versions have correct color preservation & have been reformatted after enhancement to be compatible with Aleph One.

INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS: To install, follow the instructions found in the "ReadMe" file located in the "ULTRA_HD_Weapons_M2" folder.

IMPORTANT: This Plugin is not forwards compatible with Marathon Infinity. Only use with Marathon 2: Durandal running latest Aleph One build. Should work with older Aleph One builds, but has not been tested.

COMPATIBILITY: This Plugin is fully compatible with main scenario (M2) & any custom maps/scenarios that do not feature custom weapon textures.

For screenshots & a Marathon Infinity compatible version of this ULTRA HD Plugin please use this link here: https://simplici7y.com/items/ultra-hd-weapons-m3/

1,052 downloads, 0 reviews, 0 screenshots

Welcome to The BOB Factory version 1.0.1 !

Those friendly little BOBs have been kidnapped by the Pfhor for experimental purposes! After being sacked by Durandal and friends a few hundred years ago, the Pfhor Empire has almost reached it's former glory, save for one small detail...what to do about Earth and all those superhuman space marines. So those wily aliens built The BOB Factory. There they plan to develop a new type of assimilated BOB, one that is indistinguishable from normal humans and doesn't say silly things to give itself away. If they reach Earth, those assimilateds would wreak total havoc. This is where you step in and save the day...Space Marine.

Notes for version 1.0.1:

The map consists of 3 levels

Version 1.0.1 fixes the terms & pattern buffers -- making the terms look like terms and the pattern buffers look like pattern buffers.

1,930 downloads, 0 reviews, 0 screenshots

This set of files will bring M1's Alien Weapon to M2, in place of the SMG. Just put the .shpA and .sndA files in your M2 main data folder and the .phyA one in the Physics folder. Then boot up the game and, in Preferences -> Environment, click on each field (Shapes, Sounds, Physics) and replace the standard files with the ones from this package. You're good to go now.

WARNING: Only the Major Enforcers will drop it, for now. They will still shoot with their flame cannons, no worries.

1,670 downloads, 0 reviews, 1 screenshot

SUMMARY: A large, maze-like deathmatch/survival map designed for netplay & the XBLA Survival Plugin.

INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS: After download, extract "M2_Pneumatic_Atrophy.zip" somewhere on your PC. Open the "M2_Pneumatic_Atrophy" folder & read the "ReadMe" file for full instructions.

Tested on Latest "Aleph One" build with latest "Marathon 2: Durandal" data files.

XBLA Survival Plugin can be found here: https://simplici7y.com/items/xbla-survival-2/

1,692 downloads, 0 reviews, 8 screenshots

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Marathon 2's release, this is a 28-level scenario using the same story of the original game and similar constraints, blending together classic and modern level design styles to make an exciting revisit to Lh'owon.

Made by aperturegrillz, BaudrillardBoy, cassis, future you, hypersleep, Kovacs#2398, MurgenROfF, RyokoTK, and windbreaker.

Notes for version v1.0.1.1:

This is the actual fix for the evil spawn point problem.

4,010 downloads, 4 reviews, 8 screenshots, 5.0 rating

No one should spend their Independence day alone. That's why Happy July 4th physics are here to cheer us all up and give us a sweet surprise.

Notes for version 1.0:

Includes the physics model, and the software that created it.

4,021 downloads, 0 reviews, 1 screenshot

NOW UPDATED TO SUPPORT MARATHON 1 AND MOST CUSTOM SCENARIOS!

This plugin allows you to experience Marathon 2's original 1995 classic status bar HUD, but modified to better support today's widescreen displays. This plugin supports Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and many scenarios, and even provides an M2-like HUD for Marathon 1.

This widescreen HUD has 2 flavors, a 'lite' version and an 'enhanced' version:

CLASSIC M2 (UNRESTRICTED VIEW): The original HUD, uses original graphics, but removes the letterboxing on the 3D game view, allowing any widescreen aspect ratio, should be compatible with all scenarios

CLASSIC M2 (WIDESCREEN ENHANCED): Extends the status bar graphics to fill a 16:9 screen. To utilize the extra space, a second inventory page is displayed. In Netgames, this second page shows the scoreboard.

Due to the necessity of custom graphics, "Widescreen Enhanced" HUD is only guaranteed to work with the following scenarios:

• Marathon 1, Marathon 2, and Marathon Infinity
• Any scenarios which use the default M2/MI HUD graphics, such as: Tempus Irae, Phoenix, EVIL, and many more
• The following scenarios with custom HUD graphics: Apotheosis, Apotheosis X, Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge, Marathon Squadron, Portal of Sigma, RED, Return To Marathon, Rubicon/Rubicon X, Trojan

See included Readme for installation instructions.

All Lua work is based on "M2 Default HUD" posted here by Hopper, as well as the scenarios' original art, with additions by me to support the enhanced widescreen features.

Widescreen Marathon 1 Classic HUD is available here

Notes for version 2.03:

v2.03: fix errors with Linux version of Aleph One

v2.02: code tweaks to prevent redundant background fills; no visual changes

v2.01: fix terminals at 'Largest' setting scaling improperly at very low game resolutions

v2.0: add marathon 1 and trojan huds, and code cleanup

v1.9: add scenarios support, resize HUD to be a perfect 2x scale at 1080p, add lite version

6,122 downloads, 2 reviews, 6 screenshots, 5.0 rating

This is the 1996 CD "Pfhrenzy" found on the Macintosh Repository here.

There was some interest in this CD on the Marathon Discord server when I pointed out this CD. Not everyone wanted to bother with emulating Mac OS, but they still wanted to see the maps at least, which can be played with modern Aleph One. Thus, I emulated it myself, and transferred all the files off of the CD and zipped them up for people to look over on whatever OS they preferred.

For this reason, most of the files will look weird or not work at all on Windows or Linux, or perhaps even Mac. I have done nothing to the files themselves aside from put them through 7zip.

3,050 downloads, 0 reviews, 2 screenshots

Miss the music from Marathon 1? Get a full original soundtrack for the entire game.

An original fan soundtrack for Marathon 2: Durandal, composed by Talashar. Featuring themes from Marathon, Halo, M2SE, and more. This won't just be a mashup of themes you know though, levels and characters have been given their own themes.

Based on Treellama's M2SE plugin.

Listen to it on Bandcramp:

https://talashar.bandcamp.com/album/feel-the-noise

Or Youtube:

https://youtu.be/zYGK8K2dv80?si=fxTJvi9prDhRAJeg

2,498 downloads, 2 reviews, 2 screenshots, 5.0 rating

This is a map I built a LONG time ago, and recently finished up... It is meant for Durandal. Screenshots coming soon.

Notes for version :

Fixed the respawning of players AND objects, added sounds, removed the co-op flag, added KTMWTB, removed the extra pistols, removed the health tanks, moved two of the TOZT fuel tanks to risky areas for balance's sake, removed all of the crappy monsters and added screenshots.

3,436 downloads, 3 reviews, 5 screenshots, 2.3 rating

CFP is a complete set of high definition textures for Marathon Infinity and Durandal. Based on the original Freeverse Marathon 2 Durandal XBLA textures, these have been further enhanced by the Alephone community with glowmaps and made to support Marathon Infinity.

Note: If load times are too slow, try uncompromising the plugin in the plugin folder.

Contributors:

Freeverse, Hopper, Treellama, TheDoc45, General Tacticus, J2k, Spurious Interrupt, Tfear7

This is the weapons/items portion of the plugin and can only be used for Marathon 2 Durandal. A Marathon Infinity version is available.

Other CFP Packages

CFP Walls MInf - https://simplici7y.com/items/communityfreeverse-walls-minf/

CFP Walls M2 - http://simplici7y.com/items/community-freeverse-plugin-walls-m2

CFP Monsters - http://simplici7y.com/items/community-freeverse-plugin-monsters

CFP Scenery - http://simplici7y.com/items/community-freeverse-plugin-scenery

CFP Weapons Inf - http://simplici7y.com/items/community-freeverse-plugin-weapons

Masters of textures for CFP can be found here: https://github.com/JoshuaPettus/Marathon-Community-Freeverse-Textures.git

Notes for version 2.4:

• Even more edge cleaning of weapons and items

7,369 downloads, 0 reviews, 0 screenshots

This is a superplugin for AlephOne 1.0 that lets you easily enable all the hi-res sprites and textures from the XBLA version of Marathon: Durandal with one single click. All required graphics are inlcuded- just unzip the downloaded folder into your Marathon 2 plugins directory. In addition to that, some glow- and bumpmap textures have also been included to improve visual experience and take advantage of AOs new shader features. No custom shapes files are required for this to work. Separate plugins for monsters, wall textures and weapon sprites will be released by treellama.

Notes for version 1.1.1:

Please note that this plugin will NOT function properly with previous versions of AlephOne or Marathon Infinity.

WARNING! - there has been a problem with the previous download (player graphics were missing) - I strongly suggest to everybody who downloaded v1.1. to re-download fixed v1.1.1!

4,899 downloads, 2 reviews, 7 screenshots, 5.0 rating

This is a three level campaign textured for Marathon 2. After the events of Marathon 2, Robert Blake and his BoBs escape on the captured Pfhor ship H'farl, but they run into trouble when their navigation system malfunctions in an unknown star system! Help Robert Blake and the heroic BoBs get to safety.

Notes for version 1:

Initial Upload

2,666 downloads, 1 review, 6 screenshots, 4.0 rating

To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Marathon, I present to you a fully dynamic soundtrack for Marathon 2: Durandal.

• Dynamic placement system based on various player triggers: it knows what perils you're in...
• The original instruments, melodies, and rhythms from the M1 soundtrack are back!
• Blends synth jams, DnB, ambient synth, orchestral strings and percussion, rock, acoustic guitar, piano / organ solos, etc.

This soundtrack is perfect for someone who really loves the M1 soundtrack and wants more! Download it now!

Notes for version 1.2.1:

-turned off the debug text on 'All Roads'

-Tweaked and EQ'd some tracks

-Give it a listen NOW on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3cNllPA_VY

-Now on Bandcamp!: https://solar-tron.bandcamp.com/album/marathon-2-an-original-soundtrack

-Download individual tracks: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qhr_Zvm-zzX3Ld0LtcyVOOcZV_boCKhd?usp=sharing

3,020 downloads, 0 reviews, 2 screenshots

This is the Marathon 2: Durandal map file coupled with the Special Edition soundtrack, which, when the map and tracks are installed, will play over the Marathon 2 levels. I DO NOT OWN THIS MUSIC

5,312 downloads, 1 review, 0 screenshots, 1.0 rating

The Map file for Marathon 2: Durandal, as it was presented in the Windows 95 release.

The Windows map file contains several visual (and a few gameplay altering) changes from the Mac version, many small, some big. It also has a few altered terminal images.

Anyone familiar with "Waterloo Waterpark" will immediately be surprised with this rendition.

There are some players who do prefer the Windows map, so I decided it would be worth posting on Simplici7y.

The M2 Win95 map file is not particularly hard to obtain, as it is available in retail M2 copies for Windows, and it's available as a download on the Trilogy Release site, HOWEVER, that merge does not contain chapter screen sound effects. I re-merged the map file with the Mac version's sound resource folder, so now all chapter screens will play the appropriate sound.

2,964 downloads, 2 reviews, 3 screenshots, 3.0 rating

This plugin enables M2SE music with the stock Marathon 2 or Marathon 2 for Windows 95 map.

Requires Aleph One 1.7b1. Simply unzip and copy the folder to your Marathon 2 Plugins directory.

Credits from the M2-SE Music Readme (included):

• The Mark Sumner “Zipper Cat” OGGs are copyright Team Unpfhorgiven.
• The Mike Gorczynski “The Punisher” OGGs are copyright Team Unpfhorgiven.
• The Cannibal Whore Feast OGGs are by Iain McLaughlin.
• The “Mercenary” track "Trapped In Space" is by Julian Zielke and is copyright Team Unpfhorgiven.
• The MuShoo track "We're Everywhere!" was originally a bonus track for M1A1, but is now in use with Marathon 2: Special Edition, allowing M2-SE to flower.

Notes for version 1.0.1:

Added checksum for M2 Win95 map

3,514 downloads, 1 review, 0 screenshots, 5.0 rating

Adds bloom to the original marathon 2 wall textures. Glow shift and scale values taken from thedoctor45's "M2 XBLA HD Graphics SuperPlugin" (unless edited).

2,505 downloads, 0 reviews, 5 screenshots

A full scenario for Marathon 2. It is a 6 level breach and infiltrate mission into a Pfhor military compound, complete with new terminal and chapter arts, as well as some interesting old school mapping tricks and fun bits.

This version of the scenario was built for Marathon 2's texture set, and is best played using Classic Marathon 2.

Notes for version v1.0:

Original posting for simplici7y.

2,108 downloads, 1 review, 5 screenshots, 4.0 rating