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Re: mercnet problems

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 8:07 am
by navbuoy
Well, normally its best to have the ACTUAL CD to convert from using in this case Power ISO.

http://www.poweriso.com/tutorials/conve ... to-iso.htm

http://www.poweriso.com/tutorials/conve ... to-iso.htm

That is the procedure you should follow so try that and see if that helps...

Re: mercnet problems

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 8:08 am
by Trigger
Sorry, yea I used the actual cd to make the iso file. I will have a look at that tut just in case though.

Re: mercnet problems

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 8:12 am
by navbuoy

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[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

mount X C:\MERCNET
mount Y [whatever the actual drive letter of your CD/DVD ROM is on your computer]:\ -t cdrom
Y:
install
Try this instead then and run off your actual CD

Re: mercnet problems

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 8:24 am
by Trigger
Got a good feeling about this one :) haha thanks so much for your help. I'm alright at this game on single player but as soon as im on MP all you guys will destroy me before i get a shot in. I didn't even know you could get a kill by landing on a cockpit. Alot to learn. Anyway hopefully this works off the cd..... its installing at least.

Type MERCS to play Mercenaries.

H:\>mercs
Error: Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries CD-ROM not found.

I think i need sleep as its 3:30am and theres a chance i might get called into work in 5 hours. I appreciate the help though. Ill see if i have any better luck another day

Re: mercnet problems

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 8:54 am
by navbuoy
Yeah man its still morning here...so go get some rest.

So after the install change it to this...

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[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

mount X C:\MERCNET
mount Y [whatever the actual drive letter of your CD/DVD ROM is on your computer]:\ -t cdrom
X:
mercs
Remember you are finished installing and need to launch off the hard drive - so I am assuming that you assigned H to your hard drive C:\MERCNET (instead of X like I am using above)

Also make sure you are not using any quotes or stuff
let's say you used F as your CD ROM then the mount command should look like this instead of the Y above
I am assuming that your CD/DVD drive is actually on E on your computer if not switch the E to what it is on your machine. Also, LABEL is the actual ID/Name of your CD which you can get looking in the explorer or Computer window for your CD ROM drive - for my Mechwarrior CD it is named MECH2_16B so it would look something like this

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Mount F E:\ -t cdrom -label MECH2_16B
Other than that I am all out of ideas...
http://www.dosbox.com/DOSBoxManual.html
Try the DosBox manual to see if it might be of some help to you.
All the best.

Re: mercnet problems

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2015 3:23 pm
by Trigger
Thanks very much but it looks like ill try NetMech or mechwarrior 3 instead for multiplayer, cant be that much worse haha. Ill try Mercnet on both my brothers computers to make sure but it could be the actual disc version that im using doesnt like the computer. Because when I tried to play the original disc in MechVM it wouldnt work but when I then bought the Titanium version it worked like a charm.

Re: mercnet problems

Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 1:53 am
by Trigger
What version of mercs are you guys using? Can anyone upload their iso and ill try that?

Re: mercnet problems

Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 11:59 am
by Striker
I run mercs 1.06. My ISO/Disc is 1.0 though, so I had to patch it manually.

We had a game going with Mercnet earlier this year. If we can get a bunch of guys playing again, I would love to do a few drops in Mercnet.

Re: mercnet problems

Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 2:02 am
by Trigger
Maybe I have to patch it to get the disc to read?

Re: mercnet problems

Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2016 1:34 am
by Trigger
Is there a patch for 1.5 or 1.6 somewhere on this forum?