README: Submitting logs of game problems

[GSH]

The second image is noting that a .pak file (not sure which one) is truncated. BZ2 stores most of its data in those files. After a successful install from the BZ2 1.0 CD (North America), data.pak should be 284MB (298,494,101 bytes), and patch13.pak should be ~99MB. You can locate those files in the same directory you installed BZ2 into; Windows Explorer will hide the ".pak" file extension by default, but that's their true name on disk.

Note that the 1.3.7.2 patch requires a successful install from CD first. Data.pak is from the CD installer and is not touched by 1.3.7.2. Patch13.pak is created by the 1.3.7.2 installer.

-- GSH

[GadenKerensky]

The second image is noting that a .pak file (not sure which one) is truncated. BZ2 stores most of its data in those files. After a successful install from the BZ2 1.0 CD (North America), data.pak should be 284MB (298,494,101 bytes), and patch13.pak should be ~99MB. You can locate those files in the same directory you installed BZ2 into; Windows Explorer will hide the ".pak" file extension by default, but that's their true name on disk.

Note that the 1.3.7.2 patch requires a successful install from CD first. Data.pak is from the CD installer and is not touched by 1.3.7.2. Patch13.pak is created by the 1.3.7.2 installer.

-- GSH

So, should I delete everything in my BZ2 Folder and try again, or what should I do?

[General BlackDragon]

Yea, I'd try an install from CD again, first. (check that data.pak file is the correct size, almost 284mb) and then install 1.3.7.2 onto that.

[GadenKerensky]

So, extract the 1.3.7.2 Patch to the Data.pak file, or to the BZII application itself? I tried that, but I fear I may have misinterpreted the instructions I was given and found.

A thorough step-by-step instruction would be nice, but yes, I'll delete BZII (since I can't find the Uninstall Application and the patch doesn't have an Uninstall anyways), and I should be fine since the disc is not in my PC at the current time.

I'm getting closer and closer to getting this game working, and better than ever. I feel tingly.

[General BlackDragon]

Step 1: Install from disk. (run Setup.exe)

Step 2: Install patch. (run the patch's exe, the file located inside the zip when you download it) Just keep clicking next on everything until it's finished.

[GadenKerensky]

Step 1: Install from disk. (run Setup.exe)

Step 2: Install patch. (run the patch's exe, the file located inside the zip when you download it) Just keep clicking next on everything until it's finished.

Welp, just got a new message during the Installation process, after I deleted everything to do with Battlezone 2 on my PC (disc was not in it).

Any idea what this means and how to fix it?

http://i.imgur.com/ButQtpY.png

[GSH]

As the 1.3 patch readme notes, do not run the setup.exe located in the root of the CD. Dig into the setup folder and then run setup.exe from there.

-- GSH

[squirrelof09]

Looking like you have a corrupted transfer there. The installer is having trouble reading from the source (CD)

[jack775544]

My original 1.0 install of BZ2 has transferred from computer to computer from my original Windows 98 install