The Post below this one shows how to use my Mods
Step 1:
Download StoneD's X2/XT PatcherV09b, you can get it here:
The Commander
Step 2:
Run Program Click on Utilities
Step 3:
Click Unpack DAT
Navigate to your X2 - The Threat directory default is C:\Program Files\Enlight\X2 - The Threat
Step 4:
Pick 01.cat, The program will then begin unpacking 01.dat be patient it will take awhile.
Step 5:
Repeated process for 02.cat and 03.cat
Step 6:
open explorer and go to your X2 - The Threat directory (default is C:\Program Files\Enlight\X2 - The Threat)
you will see 3 Folders called XData-01, XData-02 and XData-03.
Step 7:
Go into XData-01 directory and select ALL the folders in this directory and move them all to your C:\Program Files\Enlight\X2 - The Threat directory.
If a box pops up asking if you wish to overwrite existing data click "Yes to all"
Step 8:
Repeate this prosses for all folders in the XData-02 and XData-03 folders
NOTE: You MUST do this in order do XData-01 first XData-02 second and XData-03 last allowing each one to overwrite existing data.
Step 9:
Delete empty XData-01, XData-02 and XData-03 Folders
Delete or move 01.cat, 02.cat and 03.cat
Delete or move 01.dat, 02.dat and 03.dat
Delete or move XData-01.idx, XData-02.idx and XData-03.idx
Step 10:
Your almost there, now you must unpack your .PCK files that you want to modify or replace due to mods you may want to use. To do this run StoneD's unpacker, click Utilities click Decompress PCK go to your "Types" Directory default is C:\Program Files\Enlight\X2 - The Threat\types and choose the file you wish to decompress, TShips.PCK is a very commonly modified file for mods, so choose TShips.PCK
Step 11:
Look in your C:\Program Files\Enlight\X2 - The Threat\types Directory where you just decompressed the TShips file, you will notice that there are now 2 TShips files, TShips.pck and TShips.TXT, you must remove the TShips.pck file so the game will default to the TShips.txt file, I highly recommend backing up ALL files before you modify them.
NOTE: You do NOT have to re-compress these files, the .txt files work just fine
You are now ready to add mods to your game
keep in mind that if a mod adds multiple files to the "types" directory, you must remove the pck versions, for example if a mod adds TShips.txt, TBullets.txt and TLasers.txt, you must remove TShips.pck, TBullets.pck and TLasers.pck Back these files up!! in case you dont like the changes made.
Also sometimes moddlers will re-pack these files into pck files, make sure you backup the originals first before overwriteing them.
Also some moddlers may pack there Mods into a Dat/Cat file, Though this may be handy, I personally like acsess to all files, to unpack these mods simply unpack them like you did the original 3 Dat files, it will create a folder named XData-??, ?? being whatever they named there dat/cat files, for example if they named it 04.cat and 04.dat it will create a folder called XData-04, Then simply move folders in the XData-04 folder to your C:\Program Files\Enlight\X2 - The Threat Folder.
Make Sure before you do the above step that the new mod wont overwrite a previously installed mod or any modding youve done or you will lose all your hard work.
Thats all there is to it, happy moddleing
