Anonymous edits have been disabled on the wiki. If you want to contribute please login or create an account.

Topic on User talk:Suicide machine

I have the informations you were looking for

5
Mirh (talkcontribs)

ARSENAL: taste of power release date seems to be 13 February 1998 (judging from ign and french wikipedia)

for your problem with FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 CD path, I would look in the windows registry (use process monitor if you can't find the right key)
If registry search is still useless, check the .exe with an hex editor

Suicide machine (talkcontribs)

Well, at least the date fits what developer has on their website.

As for FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 - it certainly not registry. 'cause I've tried it - there is nothing. You'd think, if EA was using the same engine for FIFA: Road to World Cup 98, FIFA World Cup 98 and FIFA 99 - then solutions would be more or less the same (both FIFA World Cup 98 and FIFA 99 define CD drive in a registry). For some reason, this is not a case with FIFA: Road to World Cup 98. I've stumbled upon some "fixes" and "super community patches" etc. but in all honesty - these are just cracks and I don't want to implement cracks in my solutions ;)

Thanks for the informations, though - I guess, I'll start working on Arsenal's page - if only there was more information what happened to Tactical Soft - their 2 Arsenal games were actually really cool - would love to see them again in digital distribution ;)

Mirh (talkcontribs)

On the older archived version of their website there's a list of the members of the team. You could try to search their names on google, and if you were lucky enough you could even manage to contact one!

For the FIFA problem (if the only available fixes seems to be cracks) then, I would look in the game executable

If it's as easy as it was for me with atlantis - the lost tales, searching "E:", "D:", "F:" could be enough
I don't precisely know the problem, but.. I could dare: the game has an hardcoded drive letters (usually D:) and your drive is not D:, and this is why it fails the disk check

Suicide machine (talkcontribs)

I've done some more testing of FIFA RTCW 98 using Virtual Machine. I'm almost certain, it's using letter of a first CD drive it can find. I've added one virtual CD drive to my virtual machine. Installed a game from the first one (D:) - works no problem. So I removed the game and everything what was left on a hard drive from it. "Ejected the disk" (virtual) and "Put it" into my 2nd virtual drive (E:). Tried starting a game and got "Please insert CD". And so I went to a device manager and disabled D: drive - the same. I then removed the game and installed again from the same drive (E) - basically an identical situation, but now installer couldn't find D: drive. I ran the game again - worked. So basically installer is witting somewhere a file that tells the game to which drive letter it should refer (registery is literally empty) - the only thing in it is "DisplayName"="FIFA RTWC 98", "3D Card"="None" and "Language"=dword:00000001.

After installation there is a INSTALL.DAT. It's only 2 bytes long. I have 2 versions of it - one from an installation I've made from D drive, the other one from installation from E drive.
From D drive it goes: 0104
From E drive it goes: 0105

I'm guessing this is what I've been looking for.

-- EDIT -- I've replaced 0104 with 0118, which I assumed was going to be X and the game is now working on Windows 7. I guess it's time to write a page, then.

Mirh (talkcontribs)