It would be cool if some game company would make Shattered Steel 2. Bioware announced making shattered steel 2 but never did it. Great game with great audio!
I'm trying to get shattered steel running. I've got the demo going at full speed, but the full game requires the cd to be present while playing. So I have the exe files set to the proper location in D.O.G. and have the game itself installed on my physical drive J:\INTRPLAY\SSTEEL. In my profile settings under drives, I have the actual cd mounted as A. When I attempt to load the game It says "no cd rom found."
maybe you should try the CD as another drive letter, I think most older software would assume A: is a floppy diskette drive, though I don't know if that would cause your problem.
What is D.O.G., I have only tried to run the game in DosBox.
do you use the DOS version (in Dosbox) or the Windows version?
I haven't tested the Windows version, but I think you have to edit dosbox.conf and add the CD drive as a CD-ROM device in the [autoexec] category instead of mounting it the usual way.
My conf has these lines (you'll have to change the CD letter to the one used in your computer):
One quick question though, do you know how to rip the music from the game and what application is needed to open the animation, texture, and model assets?
in the DOS version which I own the music is standard CD audio (starting at track 2, track 1 is the data track), which can be ripped by just about any media player made in the last 15 years. I have no idea if they've used different methods for the soundtrack for the windows version or such. As for textures, animations and models I have no idea. Since it is an rather old game they might use their own file formats.
it's CD audio, it isn't stored in folders, but in separate music tracks on the CD (just like a regular audio CD). To access the tracks you shouldn't need to do any more than to load up your favourite media player, put the disc in the tray and tell it to open the Audio CD. if you're using WMP, Itunes of Foobar it shouldn't be hard to rip the music to mp3s onto your harddrive. If you've got an standard stand-alone cd player you can play the cd there as well, just skip the first track.
All I had to do was to mount a folder as a DOS harddrive (inside Dosbox) and mscdex mount the cd drive (in the dosbox ini file), then install the game from within dosbox and it ran quite fine.
I use the regular DosBox program, the dosbox.conf file is just a regular text file where the settings are stored.
MSCDEX was the Microsoft CD-ROM drivers in the DOS age. In the end is an autoexec segment, the commands you enter there will be automatically run when you start Dosbox. My autoexec looks like this (change D:\ to where your CD/DVD ROM is):
I have no trouble running the demo on xp even though it hates our sound card but the only issue I have with the full version is that it does not recognize the disk as present in the cd drive.
the nuclear rocket was fun also, i waited till my lan-mates crowded a bit, and then shoot the rocket in the middle ... ke-boooom !! haha.. so much fun at that time
Sounds like a lot of fun, i have never played this on LAN. Terrain deforming was pretty unusual back then I think (got to love those post-nuclear smoking craters). :)
It was released on CDROM for MS-DOS, Windows 95 (though that version is pretty hard to find, haven't seen it anywhere in years) and Mac. The video is showing the MS-DOS version.
I played it in 1997-98 here in São Paulo. The game was sold attached with a PC game magazine, called "BIGMAX" (1 CD - complete version, with the excellent CGs). I have this game until nowadays. The soundtrack is very-well made, and the gameplay is amazing too. Thanks for the video, because here in Windows XP, Shattered Steel doesn´t work, unfortunately...
You could always use dosbox to play it. You'll have to enable the CDROM drive in dosbox first, but there is a tutorial somewhere on the dosbox site on how to do that.
i loved that game, i even have a PC with win98 to play it, what happen with shattered steel 2 ?!?!?!?!!
i want it!!!!!!!!!!
it was a very good game, by the way, what do you have to do in world 2, mission 2, i cant pass it, nothin happen in that mission (i am goin to install a patch so maybe it fix it, also i made a copy because the original is very scrathed!!!)
I have some nuke footage in my second Shattered Steel video (look at the related videos, there's one titled "Shattered Steel ingame video #2" ... though you can't see much as I'm the bot getting nuked, just a bright flash and my burning remains in a crater. :)
All I had to do was install the program, create a folder that I could use as my virtual DOS partition (I chose E:\dosgames) and then when starting dosbox enter mount c e:\dosgames .. this will make C:\ in DOSBox show the contents of the folder you chose, and then you could just install whichever games you want to it from inside dosbox.
That's awesome man. I was beginning to wonder if many a Mech gamer completely forgot about this AWESOME masterpiece for a game along with its INCREDIBLE soundtrack, hell that beats ALOT of today's gaming soundtracks.
I can't tell you how much I missed the hell out of this very game. For over 5 LONG years, I've trying to find in my own house, that is since my father just took it and hid its location--that is if its STILL in that very same secret location, heh. . .sigh.
Got give props to you for that being so, man. For computer game from the late '90's, this is DEFINITELY one to behold.
I think its great that this MASTERPIECE wasn't completely forgotten, cause it seems you just can't get a reference to it, as if it just fell off the earth and NEVER existed, at ALL.
It's great that ANYONE, would bring something of kind about this workmanship, and put it up for the chance to be seen again for ALL to see.
that was one of the most fun games ever. it's only problem was: it was interplay's answer to "mech warrior", published in too much of a hurry, it was buggy and everybody out there concentrated on mech warriof... but i had it and a couple buddies and me had one helluva time networking it.
Hei, can you record the music of this game and send to me. I love this game. Awesome!
But it do not run anymore.
RABREPOHL 7 months ago
first game from Bioware!
Outlander999 1 year ago
high end graphic ^^
GamingAtGermany 1 year ago
Raptor rules!!!
catssaymiau 1 year ago
It would be cool if some game company would make Shattered Steel 2. Bioware announced making shattered steel 2 but never did it. Great game with great audio!
unit87 2 years ago 2
@unit87 i think december 11 they will announce a new ip and some people believe it is this game
whitestar111 1 year ago
@whitestar111 Lol that's one day before my birthday :) It would be an awesome present ;)
unit87 1 year ago
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whitestar111 1 year ago
better mech-warior but is my Taste
Marvel6663 2 years ago
i have this game i found it in a box in the garage full of old games not even opened
ReaperBRAD 2 years ago
I'm trying to get shattered steel running. I've got the demo going at full speed, but the full game requires the cd to be present while playing. So I have the exe files set to the proper location in D.O.G. and have the game itself installed on my physical drive J:\INTRPLAY\SSTEEL. In my profile settings under drives, I have the actual cd mounted as A. When I attempt to load the game It says "no cd rom found."
terraflux16 3 years ago
maybe you should try the CD as another drive letter, I think most older software would assume A: is a floppy diskette drive, though I don't know if that would cause your problem.
What is D.O.G., I have only tried to run the game in DosBox.
fisk0 3 years ago
dude google the name of ur game and no cd Example: Shattered Steel no cd a list of sites should come up offering no cd patches for ur game:D
jonathantrooper716 2 years ago
How do you get the game to work?
every time i click "start mission", it tells me to insert the shattered steel cd when the cd is already inserted
60829 3 years ago
do you use the DOS version (in Dosbox) or the Windows version?
I haven't tested the Windows version, but I think you have to edit dosbox.conf and add the CD drive as a CD-ROM device in the [autoexec] category instead of mounting it the usual way.
My conf has these lines (you'll have to change the CD letter to the one used in your computer):
[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount c E:\DOS
mount d D:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
mount i E:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
fisk0 3 years ago
One quick question though, do you know how to rip the music from the game and what application is needed to open the animation, texture, and model assets?
shizaquife 3 years ago
in the DOS version which I own the music is standard CD audio (starting at track 2, track 1 is the data track), which can be ripped by just about any media player made in the last 15 years. I have no idea if they've used different methods for the soundtrack for the windows version or such. As for textures, animations and models I have no idea. Since it is an rather old game they might use their own file formats.
fisk0 3 years ago
I have been up and down the disk and yet I cannot find the music folder, what folders must I go through to get to it?
shizaquife 3 years ago
it's CD audio, it isn't stored in folders, but in separate music tracks on the CD (just like a regular audio CD). To access the tracks you shouldn't need to do any more than to load up your favourite media player, put the disc in the tray and tell it to open the Audio CD. if you're using WMP, Itunes of Foobar it shouldn't be hard to rip the music to mp3s onto your harddrive. If you've got an standard stand-alone cd player you can play the cd there as well, just skip the first track.
fisk0 3 years ago
i remember when i tried to play it under win xp. how can i play it in dosbox?
flashmate99 4 years ago
All I had to do was to mount a folder as a DOS harddrive (inside Dosbox) and mscdex mount the cd drive (in the dosbox ini file), then install the game from within dosbox and it ran quite fine.
fisk0 4 years ago
what is mscdex, which frontend do u use?
flashmate99 4 years ago
I use the regular DosBox program, the dosbox.conf file is just a regular text file where the settings are stored.
MSCDEX was the Microsoft CD-ROM drivers in the DOS age. In the end is an autoexec segment, the commands you enter there will be automatically run when you start Dosbox. My autoexec looks like this (change D:\ to where your CD/DVD ROM is):
mount c E:\DOS
mount d D:\ -t cdrom -usecd 0 -ioctl
fisk0 4 years ago
I have no trouble running the demo on xp even though it hates our sound card but the only issue I have with the full version is that it does not recognize the disk as present in the cd drive.
shizaquife 3 years ago
the nuclear rocket was fun also, i waited till my lan-mates crowded a bit, and then shoot the rocket in the middle ... ke-boooom !! haha.. so much fun at that time
pbw119 4 years ago
Sounds like a lot of fun, i have never played this on LAN. Terrain deforming was pretty unusual back then I think (got to love those post-nuclear smoking craters). :)
fisk0 4 years ago
YIEHAWW !! this game was so much fun in multiplayer, remember it well, making massacres with the heavy plasma cannon :)
pbw119 4 years ago
sorry to ask a question thats probably already been asked, but, what format is this game? cya later, alex
alexh826 4 years ago
It was released on CDROM for MS-DOS, Windows 95 (though that version is pretty hard to find, haven't seen it anywhere in years) and Mac. The video is showing the MS-DOS version.
fisk0 4 years ago
I played it in 1997-98 here in São Paulo. The game was sold attached with a PC game magazine, called "BIGMAX" (1 CD - complete version, with the excellent CGs). I have this game until nowadays. The soundtrack is very-well made, and the gameplay is amazing too. Thanks for the video, because here in Windows XP, Shattered Steel doesn´t work, unfortunately...
veterano1976 4 years ago
You could always use dosbox to play it. You'll have to enable the CDROM drive in dosbox first, but there is a tutorial somewhere on the dosbox site on how to do that.
fisk0 4 years ago
i loved that game, i even have a PC with win98 to play it, what happen with shattered steel 2 ?!?!?!?!!
i want it!!!!!!!!!!
it was a very good game, by the way, what do you have to do in world 2, mission 2, i cant pass it, nothin happen in that mission (i am goin to install a patch so maybe it fix it, also i made a copy because the original is very scrathed!!!)
Celestial2006 4 years ago
Heh, this brings back memories, get some nuke footage with the scorpion!
tzrhead 4 years ago
I have some nuke footage in my second Shattered Steel video (look at the related videos, there's one titled "Shattered Steel ingame video #2" ... though you can't see much as I'm the bot getting nuked, just a bright flash and my burning remains in a crater. :)
fisk0 4 years ago
one of my favourite games of all time, but i cant run it on xp though. too bad, any advice is welcome
commandro 4 years ago
It works fine in Windows XP using the DOS emulation program DosBox.
fisk0 4 years ago
yeah, now i only need to figure how it works
commandro 4 years ago
All I had to do was install the program, create a folder that I could use as my virtual DOS partition (I chose E:\dosgames) and then when starting dosbox enter mount c e:\dosgames .. this will make C:\ in DOSBox show the contents of the folder you chose, and then you could just install whichever games you want to it from inside dosbox.
fisk0 4 years ago
That's awesome man. I was beginning to wonder if many a Mech gamer completely forgot about this AWESOME masterpiece for a game along with its INCREDIBLE soundtrack, hell that beats ALOT of today's gaming soundtracks.
I can't tell you how much I missed the hell out of this very game. For over 5 LONG years, I've trying to find in my own house, that is since my father just took it and hid its location--that is if its STILL in that very same secret location, heh. . .sigh.
LinkSOB 4 years ago
that looks like quite a good game
I wanna get mass effect when it comes out!
oh well cya, alex
alexh826 4 years ago
Yes, I love the game. I actually bought it just a few weeks ago, I remember playing the shareware/demo version when I was a lot younger.
Yes, Mass Effect seems pretty interesting, though my computer certainly wouldn't be able to run it.
fisk0 4 years ago
Got give props to you for that being so, man. For computer game from the late '90's, this is DEFINITELY one to behold.
I think its great that this MASTERPIECE wasn't completely forgotten, cause it seems you just can't get a reference to it, as if it just fell off the earth and NEVER existed, at ALL.
It's great that ANYONE, would bring something of kind about this workmanship, and put it up for the chance to be seen again for ALL to see.
LinkSOB 4 years ago
that was one of the most fun games ever. it's only problem was: it was interplay's answer to "mech warrior", published in too much of a hurry, it was buggy and everybody out there concentrated on mech warriof... but i had it and a couple buddies and me had one helluva time networking it.
daskraut 4 years ago