Railroad Tycoon II GOLD for Dreamcast

[delmoko]

Attention Dreamcast Railroad Tycoon II fans:

I recently completed the 24 campaigns in the game and I have some questions.

1. Can the keyboard be used for this game? What does HARDWARE/SOFTWARE mean in the option menu for the keyboard setting? How does it work?

2. How do you enact the CHEAT CODES? It says you will unlock them through the campaign mode, but like I said, I beat all 24 campaigns and all the Cheat Codes are still “??????????” on the screen! Very frustrating.

3. Has anybody had problems with saving their game? Mainly when you’re about 15-20 years into a scenario and your railroad is pretty big, you go to Save the game and it just kinda locks up on you. I know it says you may need 200 blocks to save mid game, but the VMU I’m using already has 40+ blocks used up from saving the 24 campaigns. Do I plug a 2nd controller/VMU into port 2 and save there? I don’t get it?!?!

4. I played a “stand alone scenario” last night, WESTERN UNITED STATES I believe and one of the standards for winning the silver/gold was to have 10 Million in Industrial profits. Something that COULD have been easily done (Iron/Coal from Vancouver/Seattle to Portland for steel, then steel to Spokane for Goods; REPEAT), but the scenario would not let me buy industries. Just a small glitch? I think there are a few like this in the game unfortunately. 

My biggest complaint is that the manual for this game just plain sucks. It doesn’t tell you ANYTHING! I’ve been a RRT fan since it came out on the PC, so that helped. If I didn’t have background, I would have been totally lost. The tutorial is OK, but they really could have put together a HELPFUL manual for players. That’s really my only complaint, because the game itself is TOP NOTCH!

I’ve only heard bad things about this game for the Playstation… has anybody played both?? I’d love to hear your opinions.

Please help if you can!!! I wanna hear from some fellow Tycoons!!!!

A true Railroad Tycooner,
Delmoko

[Guntz]

What's this doing in "Latest Review"? Shouldn't this go in Insert Coin?

[delmoko]

Im new here, sorry.

[Guntz]

Gonna have to wait for a mod to stop by and remove this thread since you already posted this in the correct forum.

[delmoko]

In the meantime, what do you know about Railroad Tycoon II??

[delmoko]

Seems like you people know everything about anything SMS/Genesis/Dreamcast except Railroad Tycoon II... And you call yourselves nerds???

Freddy Shelton would be ashamed, as am I.

[TheRollingStoner]

We are very sorry for not catering to you. I'm sure someone will be able to assist you shortly.... or not, I don't care.

[NeoVamp]

And you call yourselves nerds???

Actually I don't, because to me nerd is still an insult.

[doomguy]

I can tell you what i do know, i used to play the pc version of the first for hours on end i had the 2nd on the dreamcast for like 2 days before i broke it shame because it was awsome from what i remember.

[Jasper061992]

I can tell you what i do know, i used to play the pc version of the first for hours on end i had the 2nd on the dreamcast for like 2 days before i broke it shame because it was awsome from what i remember.

Ha! Broke the Platinum version for the PC, luckily I still own the old Xplosiv copy I had for many years. I should get the PSX and DC versions just for the sake of it tho.

Anyways, I never completed 1 campaign or scenario in the games considering how difficult it was for me lol. All I mostly did was just watch the AI build their own railways and watch the trains hehe. I always more of an Rollercoaster Tycoon fan out of the two.

Well thats all I can give you TC, sorry it doesn't say much, but whatever.

[delmoko]

"Nerd" is not an insult. I'm a huge RPG nerd. Big Whoop. If you liked the old PC ones, you will LOVE the Dreamcast one. I'm all about "old school," but this one is great... if only it had better directions! Either way, its Uber Fun.