First of all you have to be precise because there are three main versions of FOTRS. 1.2, 1.3 and 2.0.
Then there is our new project, FOTRSU, Fall of the Rising Sun Ultimate, presently at version 0.62. These are all distinct and different mods. FOTRS and all its versions were made solely by the Aces of the Deep modding group in Germany
FOTRS in all its versions was always the most beautiful of the SH4 mods. with expanded navies and great graphics tweaks. FOTRS 2.0, made for SH4 v1.4, was most beautiful of all, with the most ships and a beautiful environment. But most on Subsim couldn't play if because they had SH4 v1.5. Also 2.0 was balanced for multiplayer and very few Subsiim players do that. I styled FOTRS as the GWX of SH4.
The worst was that the AOTD mod crew was inactive. Its uploads were vanishing all over the Internet. I announced the FOTRS Ultimate Project, to bring all available versions of FOTRS home to Subsim for hosting so they would be preserved, and to form a team to get all the great graphics and sound features of FOTRS 2.0 to work in SH4 v1.5.
Our first goal was just to get all Mad_Max's 2.0 stuff working in the most recent version of SH4. Once we did so we found an unplayable game in single player mode, and we found many errors, most stemming from defects in the stock game. We've been working on those aspects for the last eight months to get FOTRSU fun to play in single player. In the meantime we've added lots of features.
But the thing we're proudest of, and which makes SH4 enter a new age is that when you center the rudder the helmsman says "Rudder amidships." That's proof of the abounding excellence of FOTRS and why it's preferrable to TMO.
Also, FOTRSU can be uninstalled by JSGME, leaving you with a stock game where programming errors in TMO make permanent changes to the stock game after you uninstall.