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Posted January 18, 2012
Hey all... I recently bought and downloaded Heroes of Might and Magic 2 Gold from GOG.com here, and I can't seem to get it to work properly. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

Basically, I open up dosbox, and mount the heroes file (in my case, C:\Heroes2\ ) to the C in dosbox, go to the C, and open the Heroes 2 game. Now, when it starts, it says I don't have the Heroes 2 disc in my computer, and that I can only play as a guest in online game. Both the single player and campaigns are not open for me.

How do I fix this? Any help is appreciated :)
Posted January 18, 2012
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SkipperOtter: Hey all... I recently bought and downloaded Heroes of Might and Magic 2 Gold from GOG.com here, and I can't seem to get it to work properly. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

Basically, I open up dosbox, and mount the heroes file (in my case, C:\Heroes2\ ) to the C in dosbox, go to the C, and open the Heroes 2 game. Now, when it starts, it says I don't have the Heroes 2 disc in my computer, and that I can only play as a guest in online game. Both the single player and campaigns are not open for me.

How do I fix this? Any help is appreciated :)
I think I know your problem, as I had the exact same one playing HOMM1 on the Mac version of DOSBox. You have to mount the folder as the C drive, AND as a CD drive.

I think you can just do this by double clicking the HOMM2 shortcut in your start menu. If you want to or have to use DOSBox manually, do exactly what you did except then type this command too.

mount d "c:\Heroes2\" -t cdrom
Post edited January 18, 2012 by PenutBrittle
Posted January 18, 2012
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SkipperOtter: Hey all... I recently bought and downloaded Heroes of Might and Magic 2 Gold from GOG.com here, and I can't seem to get it to work properly. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

Basically, I open up dosbox, and mount the heroes file (in my case, C:\Heroes2\ ) to the C in dosbox, go to the C, and open the Heroes 2 game. Now, when it starts, it says I don't have the Heroes 2 disc in my computer, and that I can only play as a guest in online game. Both the single player and campaigns are not open for me.

How do I fix this? Any help is appreciated :)
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PenutBrittle: I think I know your problem, as I had the exact same one playing HOMM1 on the Mac version of DOSBox. You have to mount the folder as the C drive, AND as a CD drive.

I think you can just do this by double clicking the HOMM2 shortcut in your start menu. If you want to or have to use DOSBox manually, do exactly what you did except then type this command too.

mount d "c:\Heroes2\" -t cdrom
Tried to mount it as a cd as well... doesn't seem to have helped any.
Should I, like, just download/install it again, and see if the .exe that appears on the start menu gets it working on its own?
Post edited January 18, 2012 by SkipperOtter
Posted January 18, 2012
Not sure what I did... but it works now :D
Posted January 18, 2012
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SkipperOtter: Not sure what I did... but it works now :D
GOG's games are already programmed to work in DosBox (well those that were made for Dos), all you have to do is click on the games start icon and it should load up Dosbox by its own little self. Unless you already tried that first and it didn't work..if that was the case I don't know what the problem was, glad it's working for you now though. Have fun playing that is a great game! :)
Posted January 18, 2012
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SkipperOtter: Tried to mount it as a cd as well... doesn't seem to have helped any.
Should I, like, just download/install it again, and see if the .exe that appears on the start menu gets it working on its own?
It wasn't C:\Heroes2\ that needed mounting, that's why that didn't work. ;)

There should be a pair of files inside that directory called something like GAME.GOG and GAME.INST. Those are actually renamed bin and cue files containing a disc image. That's what needed mounting, but as others have mentioned, GOG sets it up so the desktop/start menu shortcut runs DOSBox with a custom configuration that does all the mounting and loading needed for that specific game.
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