Found this relic cleaning my car's trunk
The CD case was all warped due to heat, the CD didn't survive either :/
How long was it there? Some years, i think
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This game had some of the most immersive hardware controls and interfaces. It supported a Thrustmaster Mark 2flight stick for your right hand control to aim your weapons:
...a Thrustmaster Mark 2 throttle control for walking speed:
... Thrustmaster pedals for torso twist:
...and even i-glasses VR headset (with head motion tracking that would turn the Mech pilots head inside the cockpit!)
Yes dude, definitely played this game with that top joystick, so fun.
Woah, whhaaa?! That game came out in like 1995. I played it and thought it was great but had no idea it had all the hardware compatibility you're pointing out!
This game was the shit when it came out. All the force feedback controls were just perfect.
How was this all possible in 1995 but we had to wait for modders to make the latest MW have those features?
Seriously?? How is THIS the first I'm hearing about all this??
That is some true lostech there, quiaff?
This and Descent are the reasons I play with an inverted Y axis to this day.
Oh my. I remember playing Descent on my Compaq Pentium 486dx. Good times.
I had this on the 486dx2 66MHz. It ran smooth.
Stop bragging, not all of us can splash out the cash to upgrade from 386. :(
We played it on a Mac Performa with like 24mb ram and maybe a 75 MHz PPC processor.
That and a starter’s Jedi game were the first FPV 3D games we’d ever played at home. (Someone had installed doom on the auto as compys at highschool).
Hey, those were the first two games I got to emulate - but including Descent 2.
Reactor online...
Sensors online...
Weapons online...
...
All systems nominal.
I need this to play when my computer starts up..does Linux have a way to do this??..questions for later.
Yes, I've been messing with it lately, can't remember the details, but i'll go look I'm a while.
Edit: the dos version works fine in dosbox, the only thing I see is a note in my startup conf reminding me to stop my kvm, barrier. have not succeeded in running any of the better graphics build.
Just add a service that plays a sound on system startup
Autopilot: Engaged.
Autopilot: dIsAbLeD.
Dang, that brings back memories!
You should just retire that ford pinto.
holy hell, i tried to play this game as a wee kiddo, but I could never figure it out.
Infocom Presents... The Crescent Hawks, Revenge
Are there any good modern mech warrior style games?
Have you tried latest Mechwarrior games?
That sounds like a perfect fit ngl.
E R P P C
Everybody must at least once try the loadout that racks your heat up to near-detonation but dumps enough PPC into an enemy to nuke them in one shot.
Mass jump jets and machine guns was my go to... fly into close range really fast and gun then brrrrrrr. You could win most battles using the smallest mech this way.
I remember tweaking the config and I think blowing my arm off by firing
Is that an Awesome? I think they have a tabletop loadout with 3 PPCs
Mad Cat / Timber Wolf
There wasn't an Awesome in the game, it's set during the Wolf/Falcon refusal war so it's all Clan mechs. Nothing's stopping you from from loading like five of them on a Dire Wolf though.
CRITICAL HIT
OVERHEATING
SHUTTING DOWN
DFA
One of my first computer games. Always wished I had a joystick for it though.
Mine came with a sidewinder joystick. Thank you Tiger Express. Had to spend $200+ for 4mb more of ram(8 total) just to run it.
I bought a "Force Feedback Pro" joystick that came with Interstate '76 and MDK
i76 was great. I remember playing MW2, MW Mercenaries, and i76 all around the same era.
Same game engine!
Yeah it was awesome, it was a great gift tbh
I bought the sidewinder joystick because of it!
I should play games that use a joystick again. Or, you know, games in general.
Oh man, Tiger Express. That was my goto…
1ea Nova + 8ea synch fire medium lasers + all the heatsinks you can shoehorn in there = Can Opener.
loved the music in this game!!! still listen to it from time to time
Love it! Still play through single player for both clans at least once a year.
At this point, maybe just leave it there?
Intro video upscaled: https://youtu.be/o1a18jETT-g
Yep, I still remember it like yesterday.
Thank you for this.
Watched this so many times back in the day, it was sooo cool
Whoomf - one look at that and I’m transported to my Sony Vaio PC with Juno Mail and Geocities
Because of the way PC games were made back in the day you should be able to load that bad boy into a CD player and listen to the soundtrack. Works for me at least with my OG copy of that game.
I loved playing this soundtrack on big speakers. The drums were great.
CD's busted beyond repair, i'm afraid
The ambient soundtrack on this game fucking rips.
Oh I so loved that game, is it on Steam?
Gog I think has it.
Edit: it’s abandonware and is on internet archive.
Awesome, I'm all over this. Such a great game!
Edit: it’s abandonware and is on internet archive.
https://archive.org/details/mech-warrior-2-mr-abandonware
BOOYA! Thanks!
Well.... Thats saved for later.
Are you looking at the one called MechWarriorQuadrology?
I'd also found https://www.myabandonware.com/game/mechwarrior-2-31st-century-combat-34i and also a portable MW2 that some redditor put together.
It’s been a while since I downloaded it, not sure. I just know it’s out there for $0 in various corners of the web.
No worries, I'm sure one of these will work. The myabandonware.com link includes the manual and I believe the DOS version was the best so I'll give that a go once I've dug out my joystick.
Yeah dos joy + keyboard worked best for me but that was like a decade ago. I really liked the ghost bear dlc.
No, it's just on their "dreamlist": https://www.gog.com/dreamlist/game/mech-warrior-2-1999
Edit: it’s abandonware and is on internet archive.
I played it on PlayStation as a kid. I really sucked at it, but I really enjoyed it.
I think I have the game disk within the CD stacks
I can still hear that asshole instructor taunting me.
Absolute classic. Great find! (Or re-find)
Funny thing about this game. The back story for it is basically the same back story for StarCraft.
Played the everloving fuckjuice out of this game as a kid. On a voodoo 6! Man those were the days.
Zero aliens in battletech universe tho
True. I should have been more specific. The back story for the terran race.
How old is your car?
I have this game in my collection somewhere. Haven't looked at it in decades.
That game had an amazing soundtrack by Jeehung Hwang.
First, how old is your car? Second, do you still have the video card?
Oh I didn't notice that! The diamond monster 3d was a voodoo card wasn't it?
Diamond was its own company with a similar fate as 3DFX. Their cards would have been right next to the Voodoo cards on the shelf though!
Well it did have the voodoo chipset and now iirc you could even use the exact same drivers on that card as the voodoo.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/3d-accelerator-card-reviews,42-7.html
The car is 21, bought it used 9 years ago. No, sadly i never had that video card
Did it do a good job of cleaning your car?
I had the demo or something, it was good times
Yasssss!