Vandalism

[General Didieto]

After 15 days literally everyone that uses any machine in my casino, breaks it. Is this a feature? How can I stop it?

[overkill17]

I'm assuming you know about troublemakers being sent by rivals to your casino and weeding them out using your security i.e Bouncers and Guards?

[General Didieto]

Originally posted by semi-♥♥♥♥♥♥:

I'm assuming you know about troublemakers being sent by rivals to your casino and weeding them out using your security i.e Bouncers and Guards?

I know troublemakers, and whenever I discipline them they confess. However the people that break my machines never confess and never stop coming. How is it possible that every single customer that uses a machine is a troublemaker.

[overkill17]

Hmm. How many machines do you have? I barely used to make ~4 slot machines or arcade machines and used to avoid the others or making more. They felt redundant, not lucrative and required maintenance. I remember making more than that usually ended up with me facing your problem. Some would inevitably get vandalised despite my stern watch over them. That I recall is another reason I stopped making them. I think it's inevitable if you make that many machines?

[Yakubian Tricknologist]

it's a glitch. i had the same thing happen to me.

[General Didieto]

Originally posted by semi-♥♥♥♥♥♥:

Hmm. How many machines do you have? I barely used to make ~4 slot machines or arcade machines and used to avoid the others or making more. They felt redundant, not lucrative and required maintenance. I remember making more than that usually ended up with me facing your problem. Some would inevitably get vandalised despite my stern watch over them. That I recall is another reason I stopped making them. I think it's inevitable if you make that many machines?

About 7 of different slot machines and a handful of arcade. My casino is hell on earth right now.

[daMuzza]

Its the copy protection. When it thinks you have a pirated copy the game slowly degrades itself.

[General Didieto]

Originally posted by daMuzza:

Its the copy protection. When it thinks you have a pirated copy the game slowly degrades itself.

So I payed money for nothing? Is there anyway to fix it?

[Scharlatan]

i have the same ♥♥♥♥
=/ bad investment

[daMuzza]

So it seemed like a shame that this game was in a state like this, so I've rebuilt it with the copy protection turned off (which should fix many of the 'bugs' reported)
It also fixes the graphics system from trying to use 16bit modes (that don't exist on modern windows), restores the intro movie, and limits the framerate so the animations don't freeze.

I haven't really tested it much, so I give no guarantees. Also, I don't have anything to do with this re-release of the game on Steam, but I did work on the original game 20 years ago.

To try it, download this file and unzip to your Casino Inc folder (find it by Right Clicking on the game in Steam then hit Properties -> Local Files -> Browse Local Files. Double click on the exe to run it (don't run it through Steam)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2t9kmpbkhcqxhlw/CasinoIncFixed.zip?dl=0

[jwnesb]

Originally posted by daMuzza:

Its the copy protection. When it thinks you have a pirated copy the game slowly degrades itself.

So basically what you're telling me is... From the things ive seen you post about this, my biggest competitor over the past 20 years ive picked this game up on and off, was the game itself because it thinks i was cheating it..... It was the true cause for my sabotage, not the other casinos? And yet i still adapted and would take over the cities regardless... There's something poetic and ironic about this, the copy protection was just max hard mode 😂😂 hey is that also why there would barely be any staff if not at all to hire after beating a city and continueing playing after awhile or is that just game limitations? Also why for some reason almost every single dealer i have is markes as a cheat after playing some hours in but they're really not cheating?

[daMuzza]

Not everything bad that happens is caused by the copy protection. I don't see anything about employees wrongly cheating in the copy protection code.

However, punters breaking all machines is definitely the copy protection being activated.
People spontaneously dieing, or getting drunk is.
Employees all becoming unhappy, or spontaneously being set on fire, is too.
It can also corrupt the game text, mess with the camera, leak cash from the player, randomly blow up vehicles and fail to save games.

All in all, it was really stupid. I know for a fact the copy protection gave false positives even on the original DVD version. It was something we were forced to put in by the publisher.

[jwnesb]

well thank you for the reply and the patch you uploaded, im going to give it a try and see how it works, i gotta say this game has been a childhood favorite for a long time, i hope one day it gets more attention from a clever modder that can crack it open or atleast a spiritual successor one day, it happened for dungeon keeper so hey who knows, its definetly a classic now

[intermittentattacker]

this is too funny, Thank you DaMuzza

[philipdimartino]

Originally posted by daMuzza:

Not everything bad that happens is caused by the copy protection. I don't see anything about employees wrongly cheating in the copy protection code.

However, punters breaking all machines is definitely the copy protection being activated.
People spontaneously dieing, or getting drunk is.
Employees all becoming unhappy, or spontaneously being set on fire, is too.
It can also corrupt the game text, mess with the camera, leak cash from the player, randomly blow up vehicles and fail to save games.

All in all, it was really stupid. I know for a fact the copy protection gave false positives even on the original DVD version. It was something we were forced to put in by the publisher.

Is there a way to increase the screen resolution size to my full screen with your update?

[daMuzza]

The options screen should allow you to change resolution to the max and do full screen.