can not play in single player ?

[DRAGONART777]

it has been years since i played this. and i seen it on sell had to grab it up. go to play it and there is no single player. it also ask for a disk at the start of the game ? hit cancel and watch video and then nothing but lan line game play ?

[schmatzler]

Originally posted by Egogimb:

so ISO image creation is needed

No, it isn't.

The game just expects a CD drive to be present. On modern Windows you can just open any ISO file with explorer and it will create a virtual CD drive for you, which is the easiest way.

Other options are installing WinCDEmu, Alcohol 120, Daemon Tools Lite or any other software that can create virtual CD drives.

[BIGJOBS]

Just right click on any ,iso file you have on your hard drive and then the game will think there is a CD drive and load correctly

[Brother Bedlam]

Same issue on Steam Deck if anyone knows an easy fix? It seems to run okay as well.

[schmatzler]

The game can now be played if you don't have a CD/DVD drive in your system. It no longer asks for the game disc then.
Previously we had to mess around with virtual DVD drive software to get around that, but a user in our Discord (Stone-D) has patched the igame.dll to finally remove this check.

You can download the patch here:
https://i-war2.com/news/183-better-planets-and-a-real-nocd-patch

I have asked GOG about including this patch (and the community patch) in their release of the game, fingers crossed!

For the Steam release, I would have to contact Atari but last time I did that, I was just met with silence. So I guess we're out of luck here. Buy the game on GOG!