If anyone's been considering downloading the Matchstick bsp decompiler recently posted on Planetquake, I would strongly urge caution unless you like hard to track down Windows software errors. I just spent 3 hours trying to fix my system after trying to see if I could get a clean .map file for zv4q3. Imagine my surprise when I ended up with IE not working right and an RCP stub error after I installed this utility. I got it fixed, but this whole mess was a result of the fact that this utility's setup program modifies several Windows files. I never got the map to convert either. I don't know why he wrote the installer like this, but messing with system files is a Bad Thing™, and made for one unhappy bird. I don't know if this affects 2k or XP, but it's up to you if you feel like messing with it. As it turns out, the program is only a shell to send commands to q3map2.exe anyway, so unless you feel like trashing your system and losing functionality in IE I'd advise steering clear of it.
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