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Old April 22nd, 2020, 04:57 PM
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Confused

Yes, I know that this is possibly not the correct exact location on
the forum to ask this question. It's not that I'm lazy or hasty, it is that I
am overwhelmed.

There are a lot of "solutions" to things on the internet. That is the problem.
Too much information, and not tailored to the exact situation I find myself in.

Using Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium edition.

download is Dino Crisis 2 for PC, from MyAbandonWare.com

I have zero experience trying to do this.

With difficulty, I used Winzip to extract the download, producing BIN and CUE files.

Not knowing what to do next, I used IMGBURN to try to turn these into ISO files.

This appeared to require the burning of a physical CD, which I did.

Then I tried to launch the game. There was a small icon for doing so, but it only loads and repeats the animation before game start, never goes to the buttons that say "Start Game"

I then flailed around, utterly clueless. Deleted everything I thought related to the game. Downloaded again. Now, I'm getting a tiny box, with illustrations from the game, offering to install various things such as DirectX. I go ahead and install all the choices. Then I click "Play Game", which is an enabled clickable choice.

When I try to launch, getting error:

C:/Users/beatcat/appData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/GameExplorer/{a7b5a4a4-c2ca-4a4.../Play.Ink is not a valid Win32 application

https://ibb.co/9n4Z7sT

Downloaded VirtualCloneDrive next, and it appears as clear as mud, makes no difference.

Could someone, please, for gods sake, walk me through this?
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Old April 22nd, 2020, 09:05 PM
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C:/Users/beatcat/appData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/GameExplorer/{a7b5a4a4-c2ca-4a4.../Play.Ink is not a valid Win32 application
Hi Bob

You may have down loaded the wrong format IE play-station not PC
this game still appears to have peer support at some torrent sites
https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?...age=0&orderby=

Good luck
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Old April 22nd, 2020, 09:37 PM
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Hi Bob
I just downloaded and attempted to mount the ISO and failed at every attempt I looked into the ISO and got this error message::

7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21
p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=en_NZ.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,4 CPUs AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G (630F01),ASM,AES-NI)

Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 660090880 bytes (630 MiB)

Listing archive: /home/john/Downloads/[PC-Game]Dino Crisis 2.iso

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Path = /home/john/Downloads/[PC-Game]Dino Crisis 2.iso
Type = Iso
ERROR = Incorrect big-endian headers
WARNINGS:
There are data after the end of archive
Physical Size = 659664896
Tail Size = 425984
Created = 2002-05-07 09:48:00
Modified = 2002-05-07 09:48:00

I got the second one down the list added by Bone:
You may wish to try others without the guarantee of success.
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Old April 22nd, 2020, 09:59 PM
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How long did it take you to download the file?
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Old April 22nd, 2020, 10:04 PM
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Hi Jill,
In less than thirty minutes I had downloaded attempted a number of mounts at different locations and send my results of my failure to Bob
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Old April 22nd, 2020, 10:43 PM
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Thanks Jaytee, I started to download it, but quit when I saw that it was going to take more than 20 minutes.
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Old April 23rd, 2020, 12:08 AM
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Thanks Jaytee, I started to download it, but quit when I saw that it was going to take more than 20 minutes.
I thought a similar thing but the peers are slow to queue so the initial speed is a crawl then pick up at around 17 peers I did not bother seeding as there were no takers while I was up.
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