How accurate is bspsource?

Lain

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so my PC died a couple of days ago, I'm not too fussed as I was due for an upgrade anyways, but what I am fussed about is my work being lost. Only about 1/2 of it was ever released and most of it was indev versions of existing maps (massive changes to remonstrance, detailing and fixes for utilia and the overhaul of cp_banana are ones I'm gonna cry about for a while). My only real solutions are to decompile already existing versions of these maps and see what I can salvage.
So my question is, how accurate would bspsource be to the originals? I use vis groups pretty heavily so I'd want those to stay.
 
Fantaboi

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I think you lose visgroups, visclusters and some areaportals will merge. Also you should be able to salvage stuff from your hard drive
 
Lain

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PSU blew up and took everything with it. Also how would I salvage stuff from the drive?
 
Hyperion

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You lost nothing. Just plug old drives to new pc and you get all your files back. It is very unlikely that power spike would break HDD's or SSD's
 
Geit

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MrHyperion said:
You lost nothing. Just plug old drives to new pc and you get all your files
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Not necessarily true if the power supply surged all the components inside the computer on its way out.

If that's the case, I believe it might be possible to replace just the HDD's controller card with an identical one, but I'm not 100% sure if that'd work.
 
Pocket

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I'd imagine replacing one component of a hard drive would be the kind of specialty repair that would be more expensive than replacing the entire drive, especially if it's a model that's no longer being made, so at this point it's a question of how much your un-backed-up files are worth.
 
Idolon

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BSPSource will tie all of your func_details together into one mega-func_detail. It also fucks up on some other stuff. I'd say it's worth trying, but you're gonna have to put in some work to get it usable.
 
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