MechWarrior 2: Resource Forum

I have a soft spot for Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries, it being my first true Mechwarrior game, though playing online frequently frustrated me given the many balancing issues that game had. Mechwarrior 2 feels the most like a proper mech game to me, though I can't get Mercenaries to run half decently fo...

...and there was much rejoicing!

P.S. Now that I will possibly be playing with more than just close friends and family, what's the policy on legging? It is generally considered bad form, or is it fair game?

Turns out getting a LAN party started was as easy as starting an emulated IPX server from within DOSBox, no VPN required. Was able to play on the computer acting as the server, and multiple clients were able to connect easily. Lots of fun was had.

Thanks! That's an undertaking I haven't the resources to try this week, but when I get the chance, I'll try it and post the results.

I chose a perfect time to start trying to play NetMech with relatives

I don't suppose there is any decent way of playing Netmech over LAN, is there?

I will try that and post here with the results. Thank you very much.

I followed the instructions for compiling, and after I entered make This came up g++ -c -pipe -O2 -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4 -I/opt/gnome/inclu...

Just got the DOS version in the mail and it works perfectly with MechVM. Thanks to everyone who provided advice.

I'm not able to run a virtual machine at this time, and I'm working on finding a copy of the DOS version. So in the meantime I decided to use Slug's patch after installing the 1.1 update. The menus and cinematics ran perfectly, but once it started to get in game, I got a generic "MECH2.EXE has ...

I'm running XP, trying to play what I assume is the pentium edition (has netmech, 95 only). I installed it using Mechvm, and it initially didn't play, so I renamed _dplay.dll to dplay.dll and still only gives me a gray screen when trying to run. Is there any solution for this?