Hi

I installed my old worms 2 disc on my laptop, running xp sp2, and it wouldn't work. I found out about the lowest drive thing, and decided that maybe the problem was that I use a USB mouse, and it was thinking that was a drive or something, so I changed my disk drive to r:, and then the game worked beautifully. I thought it was 1997 all over again!

the next time I tried to play it, I got the same error message, but the drive is still labeled r:. Any one have any other ideas? I have read through the sticky, but I'm not sure if any of those apply to my situation.

thanks for the help.

this is the problem i had that brought me here. I found when i patched to 1.5 this happened on two computers with only one cd drive.

my only suggestion is get this game open sourced. my that would be the best thing ever :( regular patches, get *bsd, *nix, and mac versions, better LAN support... i dunno. I'd do more programming if I could help modernize worms 2 -- but no dice.

sorry, i went on a tanget. I posted to say that perhaps it's because you're patching? you didn't say really.

I would also like to find out why I can't patch my Worms 2 and have it work.

(PLEASE, TEAM17, THIS GAME IS A CLASSIC! IT'S 10 YEARS OLD! YOU HAVE OTHER THINGS TO THINK ABOUT THAN FIXING A 10 YEAR OLD GAME! IT NEEDS TO BE SET FREE!)

PLEASE, TEAM17, THIS GAME IS A CLASSIC! IT'S 10 YEARS OLD! YOU HAVE OTHER THINGS TO THINK ABOUT THAN FIXING A 10 YEAR OLD GAME!

upgrade to W:A

Thinkpeace: Which version of the game do you have?

Jkiv: As I understand it, T17 don't own all the rights to the game, and couldn't hand over the source even if they wanted to. I know. :(

Franpa: As funny as it is that your answer to all W2 problem is "Buy WA", this really is not constructive in offering technical support. If that's the first reply people see, they may be put off altogether. So please, useful comments only.

im just saying that if he wants a game with updates and stuff that he should buy W:A.

As I understand it, T17 don't own all the rights to the game, and couldn't hand over the source even if they wanted to. I know.

Who owns the rights? Bleh, it's probably no use.

im just saying that if he wants a game with updates and stuff that he should buy W:A.

I'm sure [the owners of Worms 2] expect me to buy the latest as well. I thought so too. That's why I bought W:A and found that it was just bad compared to Worms 2. It irks me that most [people who own the rights to games] keep abandonware laying around untouched. The Quake3 engine was opensourced and only good has come from it.
I'm sorry for being so... linuxy.

As far as I'm aware, there are various third-parties involved in the WA source code. There's just no feasable way it's going to be open-sourced. Let's not forget there's probably deals with Trymedia and Sold-Out software that'll stop them from doing this too.

On a similar note, Spadge has made it clear in no uncertain terms that WA is not being ported to other platforms like Mac or Linux. No way. Not going to happen. I'll try to find the post if you want me too.

WA is definately better than W2, although I'm sure lots of people still play W2 out there. In my opinion, the only advantage is the level of weapon customization, but you can always use the fiddler with WA to get even BETTER customization than W2 will allow, but it doesn't work online. I was never a fan of the ridiculous customization in W2. I far prefer WA's method of one value that changes the over-all damage in 10% intervals. You know what to expect then.

Actually, WA is probably only far superior due to the Beta updates. And when the large map patch comes out, you'll have no need to play W2 again.

As far as I'm aware, there are various third-parties involved in the WA source code. There's just no feasable way it's going to be open-sourced. Let's not forget there's probably deals with Trymedia and Sold-Out software that'll stop them from doing this too.

On a similar note, Spadge has made it clear in no uncertain terms that WA is not being ported to other platforms like Mac or Linux. No way. Not going to happen. I'll try to find the post if you want me too.

WA is definately better than W2, although I'm sure lots of people still play W2 out there. In my opinion, the only advantage is the level of weapon customization, but you can always use the fiddler with WA to get even BETTER customization than W2 will allow, but it doesn't work online. I was never a fan of the ridiculous customization in W2. I far prefer WA's method of one value that changes the over-all damage in 10% intervals. You know what to expect then.

Actually, WA is probably only far superior due to the Beta updates. And when the large map patch comes out, you'll have no need to play W2 again.

Yea, I meant W2 open source, not WA

I think the same things still apply. After all, it's the same game engine. But don't quote me on that.

I'm sure WA has progressed to the point where it is substantially better than W2. If this is true, there shouldn't be any risk of releasing W2 to the public other than, yes, if the WA engine is the same and, yes, there are contracts/deals with such and such.

But a boy can dream.

Nevertheless, to get this post back on track, any reason why for the no cd other than what the FAQ say?

Spadge has made it clear in no uncertain terms that WA is not being ported to other platforms like Mac or Linux.
Actually, he wasn't so specific about Linux. That's why Deadcode and CyberShadow still plan to make WA compatible with Linux.
Yea, I meant W2 open source, not WA
That doesn't matter as W2, WA and WWP share the same engine with the same source code that can't be open-sourced.