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− | {{Availability/row| Retail | | DRM-free | No disc check. | | DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows }} | + | {{Availability/row| Retail | | DRM-free | Disc is required only for the intro video and WillTV videos to play. | | DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows }} |
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| {{Availability/row| GOG.com | simcity_2000_special_edition | DRM-free | DOS Special Edition pre-packaged with [[DOSBox]].<ref>{{Refurl|url=https://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_gog_games_using_dosbox/page1|title=List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com|date=May 2023}}</ref> | | Windows, OS X }} | | {{Availability/row| GOG.com | simcity_2000_special_edition | DRM-free | DOS Special Edition pre-packaged with [[DOSBox]].<ref>{{Refurl|url=https://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_gog_games_using_dosbox/page1|title=List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com|date=May 2023}}</ref> | | Windows, OS X }} |
Revision as of 23:59, 22 May 2024
For the Network Edition, see SimCity 2000 Network Edition.
General information
- SimCity Wiki
- Simtropolis - A fan site for the series
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability
- Demo #1 | Demo #2
Version differences
- The Special Edition (or CD Collection) is a complete edition containing the base game, Urban Renewal Kit, Scenarios Volume 1: Great Disasters, and additional cities and scenarios not available separately. Includes DOS, Win16, and Win32 versions, though the Win32 version unfortunately has a 16-bit installer.
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name |
Notes |
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Urban Renewal Kit |
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Scenarios: Volume 1 - Great Disasters |
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Essential improvements
Official Patches
- Patch 1.1 (DOS) and 1.2 can be found here.
Skip intro videos
- These steps are for the DOS version; for the Windows version simply run the game without the CD in the drive.
Remove INTRO command[citation needed]
|
- Go to the installation folder.
- Edit
SC2000.BAT with a text editor.
- Remove the
INTRO line.
- Save the changes and close the file.
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
- Many settings (e.g. game speed) are stored in the city file itself.
Save game data location
- The original Windows version can save cities anywhere (
{p
\Cities}} folder is the default).
Video
Input
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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On/off only. |
Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Very little speech in the game ("Reticulating splines" when starting a new city, pilot lines). |
Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Royalty free audio |
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General MIDI audio |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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French |
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Retail disc only |
German |
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Retail disc only.[4] |
Japanese |
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Retail disc only. |
Brazilian Portuguese |
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SimCity 2000: Edição Especial.[5] |
Spanish |
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Retail disc only. |
DOS Issues fixed
Simcity 2000 Setup Program reports insufficient Memory
- The Setup program will report that you have less than 4MB of ram, this is a simple bug and does not affect the installer or game. It will go away if your computer has less than 32MB of ram.
Game Hangs on Dos4GW initialization screen
- The game hangs on the initialization screen for an indefinite amount of time
Make sure your EMS is set up properly[6]
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Simcity 2000 does not work correctly if EMS is set to auto. To make sure the game works correctly, do this:
- Go to your config.sys file
- Edit the EMM386 initialization line. Type 'NOEMS' at the very end to disable EMS, or at the very least set an amount of RAM reserved for EMS by typing '1024 RAM'
- Additionally make sure you are not running any unnecessary TSRs or programs.
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Game does not work with ATI Cards
- Simcity 2000 has an ATI-specific card fix if your machine uses an ISA-based ATI card.
Run ATISET.exe[7]
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- Go to your simcity2000 directory
- Run ATISET.exe before you start the game
- make sure your video card is set up correctly within the setup program
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Windows Issues fixed
Installing on 64-bit versions of Windows
- The original disc release uses a 16-bit installer.
Install and patch with SC2000X
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- A completely open-source (GitHub) installer and game patcher. There are no pre-compiled or pre-patched binaries, it will recognize the specific version of the game and apply patches accordingly.
- Contains the save/load crash patch
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Install and patch with SimCity 2000 Installer
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- An installer and game patcher. The program is partially open-sourced on Bitbucket.
- Contains save/load crash patch
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Black scrollbar padding (Windows 10)
- On Windows 10 the right-hand scrollbar may have a margin of black pixels at some resolutions.
Traffic/water/power/building/etc animations are frozen
DOSBox-specific issues
Game runs too fast (DOSBox)
- Fast computers may cause disasters in Cheetah speed to run faster than the player can react.
Type config CPU cycles auto limit 65000 [citation needed]
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Correcting aspect ratio (DOSBox)
- Running the game on contemporary 16:9 or 16:10 monitors can result in a distorted picture. This can be fixed by altering a DOSBox configuration file.
Correct aspect ratio[citation needed]
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- Go
<path-to-game>\Game\Game\DOSBox .
- Open the file
dosbox.conf in a text editor.
- Locate the line
fullresolution=original . Change this to fullresolution=desktop
- Save the file and run the game.
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
WinG |
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[8] |
DOS video modes |
SVGA, SVGA (VESA) |
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Executable | PPC | 16-bit |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows | |
| |
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Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm. |
Mac OS (Classic) | | | |
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System requirements
DOS | Windows 3.x | Windows | Mac OS (Classic) | macOS (OS X) |
Windows |
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Minimum |
Operating system (OS) |
3.1, 95 |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel 486 DX2/66 MHz |
System memory (RAM) |
8 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
16 MB |
Video card (GPU) |
SVGA video card 512 KB of VRAM |
Other |
2X CD-ROM |
Mac OS |
|
Minimum |
Operating system (OS) |
7.0 |
Processor (CPU) |
68030 processor or higher |
System memory (RAM) |
8 MB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
20 MB |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
, %PROGRAMDATA%
, or %WINDIR%
might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to
<path-to-game>/cloud_saves/
even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves
folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).
References