Hey I'm new, really hoping you guys can help me, getting frustraited...
Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 9:34 am
Hey all, I've been having a nightmare of a time getting mechwarrior 2 to run, and it seems to want to make me angry at every step of the way. Now I have yet another problem with it, and while I found a way through all my previous issues, this one has me stumped and I couldn't find any solutions online. I'm hoping someone here has some idea what's going on.
So I have the original DOS version, 1.0 "IBM CD-ROM." I installed it via dosbox, found out it couldn't read the CD, ripped the cue bin, finally got it running. So far so good, despite the frustration.
As I'm going through the game, the increase in difficulty for some missions is being compounded by the fact that my right side keeps exploding, sometimes seemingly for no reason, even when I swing my mech to shield myself with my left side. Looked online and found out that this was a known issue and patch 1.1 fixed it, so I downloaded the patch. You guys don't seem to have it in your download forum but I eventually found it online. I extracted it, and then patched via dosbox. It said it updated successfully.
But... now when I try and run the game, exactly as I was before (Mount cue, mount c:\, run c:\mech2\mech2) it just hangs. Forever. With a little blinking cursor at the bottom of the dosbox window doing nothing.
I don't know if the patch I got wasn't legit, or dosbox can't install it, or I don't even know. At this point I'm about ready to pull my hair out. I can't even figure out where my save file is because of the odd sorting of the mech2 folder, so if I have to reinstall to fix the problem I'm going to lose all my progress, but reinstalling would leave me with the detachable arm action feature unless I can install the patch anyway. Help?
So I have the original DOS version, 1.0 "IBM CD-ROM." I installed it via dosbox, found out it couldn't read the CD, ripped the cue bin, finally got it running. So far so good, despite the frustration.
As I'm going through the game, the increase in difficulty for some missions is being compounded by the fact that my right side keeps exploding, sometimes seemingly for no reason, even when I swing my mech to shield myself with my left side. Looked online and found out that this was a known issue and patch 1.1 fixed it, so I downloaded the patch. You guys don't seem to have it in your download forum but I eventually found it online. I extracted it, and then patched via dosbox. It said it updated successfully.
But... now when I try and run the game, exactly as I was before (Mount cue, mount c:\, run c:\mech2\mech2) it just hangs. Forever. With a little blinking cursor at the bottom of the dosbox window doing nothing.
I don't know if the patch I got wasn't legit, or dosbox can't install it, or I don't even know. At this point I'm about ready to pull my hair out. I can't even figure out where my save file is because of the odd sorting of the mech2 folder, so if I have to reinstall to fix the problem I'm going to lose all my progress, but reinstalling would leave me with the detachable arm action feature unless I can install the patch anyway. Help?