Mercenary the 2nd city..

[Shannon]

I've been trying to load the 2nd city (in emulators) and I'm not sure if I am succeeding or not.

 

As was pointed out in the FARB thread the 2nd city image located there is bad.

 

I do the following. After crash landing on the planet I hit CTRL-L to load and press 0 to load slot 0.

 

The only thing that happens is the screen changes colors from blue sky, green ground to magenta sky and red ground.

 

However the opening messages do not change. Also the wrecked ship, radar and landing strip are in the same spot.

 

Is this correct?

Edited October 16, 2016 by Shannon

[drac030]

It has been a while since I last played the Mercenary, but IIRC the Second City disk is just supposed to modify the location (and shape) of the underground and flying facilites you are supposed to explore.

 

The copy I had was not good indeed, i.e. after some time of playing and visiting some objects the 3D graphics was getting corrupted. I am of course not sure if it is the same issue as "in the FARB tread" (whenever it was).

Edited October 16, 2016 by drac030

[+DjayBee]

I am not sure if the game runs well, but the German Second City from Atarimania is the only one which does not crash the game immediately.

I could load it with any of the images of Targ i have

Atarimania: Novagen,German and UK - set video to PAL

Farb: Datasoft, US - set video to NTSC

[Gunstar]

Farb? Edit: Never mind, I figured it out.

Edited October 16, 2016 by Gunstar

[sargie]

That is correct. Take off and fly high then look down - the city layout will be different ?