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Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business

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Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business
Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business cover
Developers
Sir-Tech
Linux Titan Computer
Publishers
Retail (NA), GOG.com Interplay Entertainment
Retail (Europe) JoWood Productions
Retail re-release Funbox Media
Steam, Zoom Platform Strategy First
Release dates
Windows November 24, 2000
Linux December 30, 2000
macOS (OS X) November 15, 2013[1]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view, Isometric
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres Tactical RPG
Themes Contemporary
Series Jagged Alliance
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Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business on MobyGames
Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business on Wikipedia
Jagged Alliance 1995
Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games 1996
Jagged Alliance 2 1999
Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business 2000
Jagged Alliance 2: Wildfire 2004
Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge (unofficial) 2007
Jagged Alliance: Back in Action 2012
Jagged Alliance: Crossfire 2012
Jagged Alliance Online 2013
Jagged Alliance Flashback 2014
Jagged Alliance Online: Reloaded 2015
Jagged Alliance: Rage! 2018
Jagged Alliance 3 2023

General information

Unofficial wiki
The Bear's Pit unofficial forums for game series
Standalone expansion for Jagged Alliance 2; does not require the original game to play.
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
Linux
Retail
DRM-free
Funbox Media's Gold Pack release
Windows
GamersGate
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Gold Edition (with Jagged Alliance 2)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Green Man Gaming
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Gold Edition (with Jagged Alliance 2)
Windows
Steam
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Gold Edition (with Jagged Alliance 2)
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Gold Edition (with Jagged Alliance 2). Pre-packaged with DDrawCompat.
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch is 1.01, and can be downloaded from Patches-Scrolls and The Bear's Pit.

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename movie files[2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\Data.
  2. Delete or rename Intro.slf.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Ja2.set[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12380/pfx/[Note 2]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SavedGames[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12380/pfx/[Note 2]
The saved games' subfolder is absent on a fresh installation, and is created automatically when a game is saved for the first time.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

General settings.
General settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Effects, speech, music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Retail only.
Polish
Retail only.
Russian
Not mentioned on GOG.com store page, but available as a separate installer.

Issues unresolved

"Error code 85" or "Application load error" on startup

Many Windows 10 users are unable to run the Steam version of the game due to these startup errors.[3]
The GOG.com version is unaffected by this issue.
No workaround is currently known for the Steam version.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 133 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7
Processor (CPU) 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 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. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References