Curse of Monkey Island and Windows XP. Discussion in 'PC Games' started by ilnabe. No problems at all. Perhaps it is the no cd thing i use. Dplayer33, Jun 26, 2003 #6. I have Finished curse of monkey island on XP pro and then whent back to play it again a year later this time with my girl who loved Escape from monkey.
First post, by mary55908
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I installed DOSBox, mounted the game, and after jumping through a couple of hoops I got it to play... there is no sound.
My issues thus far:
I'm Running Windows XP
The Directory is set up as follows:
C:MONKEYMONKEY.EXE is the setup program for Monkey Island 1 & 2
The files to initiate gameplay are located in subdirectories:
The first time I mounted the game, I ran the setup file. When I tried to save my configuration (set to soundblaster) within the emulated program, said program crashed at which point DOSBox displayed the error message:
ERROR: error opening .ini file
So I loaded ...MONKEY1.EXE which produced the error message:
No CD-Rom drive or MSCDEX not installed
I decided to try and pretend that my C:MONKEY directory was really a cd rom drive so I mounted it with -t cdrom
I still received the error:
ERROR: error opening .ini file
When I tried to run the setup program, however when I ran ...monkey.exe the game worked... but with no sound, which is why I was using DOSBox in the first place.. any suggestions? Did I miss something?
EDIT: Also, I have searched high and low, I found one thread in this forum concerning this game, but it didn't help and the person didn't state their problem very clearly, and it was ultimately useless. I have done various searches on google to no avail...
*Note, I am able to save the configuration when I run the setup program in my Windows XP environment
For A While there we thought this was going to be the beginning of a renaissance in adventure games, but it's over a year later and all we have to look forward to is a sequel to another LucasArts classic, Sam & Max. And even that is being turned into an action/adventure for consoles. It's enough to make you cry.
Escape From Monkey Island on the other hand will make you laugh more than any game released in the last three years. It's not a patch on the first two, of course, but it has enough in-jokes and silly puzzles to keep fans of the series more than happy. It uses the same 3D engine that the far more original Grim Fandango inaugurated and features some great voice acting, but Escape suffers from being too uneven and too derivative. If you haven't played the first two titles you'll miss so many references that most of the game won't make sense, but on the flip side, you won't notice that almost every joke and situation is borrowed or recycled from those gems. To make up for it, Escape does have a lot of subversive, self-deprecating digs at both George Lucas and its own desperate attempts to be a commercial success. And it's still a great game.