Warcraft II Finally PORTED to pocketpc... but HELP let's make it work...
Hey I am not making this up. I just saw this article at POCKETGAMER But I have been trying all evening to make it work. I have an original Warcraft II CD (Not battlenet) but I can't even get the daggum PocketConsole/PocketCMD to work.
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Wow, great. I'll try to make it work, seems complicated though
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PocketConsole doesnt work on WM2003SE in my experience, but if all you need it for is to start it with the -F parameter, then just make a shortcut.
Make a normal shortcut to the executable, open it up in a text editor, and change it from something like this
28#\path\to\program.exe
to
28#\path\to\program.exe -F
Unless I'm missing something, this should work.
Jon
(I did all that... I can read readme.txt's :P)
Yeah it does mention that in the download site that it is "buggy" with wm2003se but I thought some of you would be able to make it work. (I mean look what happened with emulamer and morphgear, and pocketsnes) I believe in yall :D !!!
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I just installed wargus (first installing the pocketcmd driver and and copied my copy of WC2 into the wc2 directory and it seems to work, though a bit slowly.
I installed PocketConsole, reset my Axim, then installed PocketCMD. I copied wargus onto a CF card and copied my WC2 CDROM contents into the wargus/wc2 subdirectory.
To run, I just clicked on 'stratagus640' and it seemed to work (I'm not bothering with PocketCMD--in fact, I can' even run PocketCMD because it complains about missing items). I've tried the shortcut idea to run 'stratagus640 -F', and that didn't seem to make any difference.
When I first ran wargus/stratagus, the screen cursor seemed to be off about 1cm to the right of where I was tapping on the screen. I went into the WC2 options, selected the "Fullscreen" option and that fixed it. Game seems to run, but it's definitely slower than what I remember (even after increasing the gamespeed in the options menu).
I am having trouble building structures and accessing some other items in the lower-left corner because the Axim thinks I'm trying to access the MS keyboard and so my stylus clicks don't always make it to the application; they seem to get hijacked by Windows. I had this same problem with ScummVM--anyone know how to disable that (or what I'm talking about)?
Do you make a directory of the game in the directory of WC2 or do you select all the files and copy to the wc2 directory? Everytime I try to run it in my axim, it freezes.
Ok I got it working on my x30, actually pretty easy to do. All I had to download was the stratagus. I extracted it then copied the folder to my memory card, and ran stratagus.exe. Runs in landscape mode.
Works fine,not too slow.
I got it going with rescoe explorer last night (File>Run>(browse for file) and enter "-F" under "Arguments"). It runs alright, but there are a lot of bugs. Some important options on the screen were inaccessible because the Today screen buttons weren't disabled. For example, trying to instruct a peon to build kept bringing up my keyboard instead because that button was behind the "Build" button, on the Today screen. Not sure if there's a fix?
I got it going with rescoe explorer last night (File>Run>(browse for file) and enter "-F" under "Arguments"). It runs alright, but there are a lot of bugs. Some important options on the screen were inaccessible because the Today screen buttons weren't disabled. For example, trying to instruct a peon to build kept bringing up my keyboard instead because that button was behind the "Build" button, on the Today screen. Not sure if there's a fix?
See what I mean. You guys rock. This is the best site for us to make things work. Its a bit slow though. As far as the stylus not controlling everything, that is what the button1/shift is for.
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Do you make a directory of the game in the directory of WC2 or do you select all the files and copy to the wc2 directory? Everytime I try to run it in my axim, it freezes.
I copied the entire CD contents into stratagus' 'wc2/' subdirectory.
1. Download this file
2. Extract it and copy all its content to a folder on a card
3. Copy all your Warcraft 2 CD to the subfolder wc2 (don't create a folder)
4. Create a shortcut to stratagus640.exe
5. Here you go!
EDIT: People below are right, in fact you don't even need your original Warcraft2 files... So my 3rd step is not necessary. Good to know :approve:
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It ran ok for me by just downloading the wargus.rar file and running stratagus640. What does copying the warcraft cd to your axim do? Add the cutscenes?