I just want to say thank you to everyone who helped me download Zoo Tycoon 2 onto my brand new laptop! Abandonware Games is where it is at. Not only did I get Zoo Tycoon 2 but also Zoo Tycoon so now I can reminisce in the old days of playing this game and enjoying it. Thank you guys for all the help! It was a success!

i'm playing the marine show mogul campaign right now, and the final goal is to have a 5 star marine show. i've had a 5 star marine show for a while now--it's run for guests at least three times. but the campaign isn't completing. am i missing something?

UPDATE: i ended up deleting the show, getting and training two new animals, then remaking another 5 star show and it eventually passed. still not sure why the first one didn't work, but whatever

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I'm getting increasingly frustrated at the message spam about how animals can't reach their food because they might be too close to another object. Is there a mod to block out these messages?

Hi.

New player here.

After applying Radical Remake, I noticed that I cant use rocks to fully cover my fences. Is there a no grid hack that would work with RR?

Thanks.

The only link I found in the wiki leads to the Round Table, but the download button leads to an empty drive folder. I really wanted the desert rocks :(

I would like to remove every UI or HUD element from first person view (the bars topscreen) in ZT2.

I looked for a mod doing that but couldn't find anything. I also tried to mod it myself by editing some dds files (back_topbars.dds and buttons.dds) in x300_000.z2f/ui/maingame to fully transparent squares. But it didn't seem to change anything to the game...

Would anyone have a solution ? Thanks !

I wanted to rename the Giant Dinsaur poo in ZT1 to something that would make me laugh, What fies do i have to edit to rename the different poo piles?

Growing up Zoo Tycoon and Zoo Tycoon 2 were my favorites! I still have the disk bundle for Zoo Tycoon 2 but my laptop won't play it....How does everyone still play this game? Do I need to purchase like a old PC or laptop to be able to play it? I miss this game so much! Planet Zoo just isn't doing it for me

I keep seeing folks talkin about a first person keeper mode in one of the ZT games, but I can not remember which one at this time! Which one (or ones, if there’s multiple) is that? What platform is it on, and where would you recommend getting it? Especially if it’s the PC version! (If it’s disc, I’ll have to go buy a disc reader!)

Hello! I'm new to reddit and I'm almost 100% certain this is not the place to be asking this, but I've been trying to download marine mania/ dinosaur digs from my original disc set and I keep encountering this error message?

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I can guarnatee that I haven't touched the file its talking about. I've tried a couple of things to fix it (going into task manager settings, file explorer settings, ect.) and nothing seems to have any effect. Just thought I'd ask here in case someone has encountered a similar issue?

Thanks!

I seem to remember a cheat code for this game that if I named a guest 'zombie!' he would turn green and scare other guests. Much like the green of when you name a guest 'Stinky'. Does anyone else remember this? Maybe I am thinking about a different game. I can't find anything online about it.

I've never had a zoo last long enough but apparently a blimp flies across the sky if your park lasts 20 years.

if i alt+tab for a few times back to desktop it sometimes crashes and i have to open task manager and close down the game is there a  fix to this I have tried window mode but i can't see very well i can here sounds but have to go to taskmanager and end the task from there

Hello,

I loved Zoo Tycoon 1. I still have an old laptop with 15 + year old save files on it and the original discs. I occasionally pull it out and have a play.

I'd really like to get it up and running on my brand new laptop. I tried to download it from Internet Archive but got a popup from McAfee or something alerting me of malware. I do not believe there is actually malware in it. Looking for workarounds and any emulators or stuff I need so I can play it on my new laptop?

I do have the og cd roms but my new computer doesn't have a disc drive

i remember the original reason i bought this game when i was a litte kid was that i saw like watchmojo video about scary game glitches and one of them was the ghost animals and im wondering now if it was even real or if it was just a mod or something

HI all, I've tried following these directions for unlocking all items in zoo tycoon 2. The problem is I have the amazon download version of the ultimate collection. I've tried searching all the files in the article and none exist in that version of the game apparently. Am I SOL and have to play through it to get all the unlocks? I know I can but I just very rarely play and wanted to spend some time in my fav game with my day off tomorrow. My other computer corrupted so I lost my save file. TIA for any advice on how to hack or tips to quickly get through campaigns

For days I have been trying to get it work but I can't get it to work. I tried Crossover/Porting Kit but I get to the point that game starts loading then it freezes and I have to Force Close it.

Hi everyone. In some campaign challenges, namely the conservation type ones, you start off with some unhappy animals and have to make them happy by building them a better exhibit. The problem is, these pre-placed animals seem to have locked needs? Even if I make a perfect exhibit, their needs will not update to reflect that they now have the right biome/space. I know it's not the species themselves that are glitched because when I adopt a new animal of the same species and put it in the same exhibit they are happy. I finished one campaign by just selling the starting animals and buying replacements, but in some campaigns the animal buying tab is inaccessible.

I thought it might be some needs hack mods, but I removed all my mods which effect animal needs. The only thing editing default animals now is radical remake, which I really don't want to uninstall...

Has anyone else faced this issue? How did you resolve it if so? Alternatively is there a mod which allows you to buy animals in the campaigns which have that tab disabled? Then I can just replace them as I did before.

Where can I get the game? What are the max/min requirements for my PC build. I will do anything.

Hi everyone. My longtime game (18 years in game time 😭) recently crashed so I am now starting over. I’ve opened up a new zoo on challenge mode and it’s been opened for 2 months and I haven’t had a single visitor, not even any spawning outside of the zoo. I have 3 species set up, food, bathrooms. The zoo is open and admission is free. I don’t have any mods downloaded. Am I just totally missing something?? I don’t remember having to do anything specific to get guests to start arriving. Or does it sound like there is a problem with my game? Thank you in advance!!

so i have this issue. either i can have the marine biomes, but half the radical remace ones (like cold desert) wont show, or, i can have the radical remake biomes, but not the ability to use marine biomes or tanks.

i have tried both the reg file by horse14t and the mod by thom.
the reg file does nothing (probably because im running the game off of a external harddrive or something) and the tank fix mod and radical remake biomes basically cancel eachother out deppending on which one is lowest in the registry.

any tips or am i out of luck?

Edit: found a thread about editing XML files, solved my issue for now

Hello,

Recently, in the Restorers Discord we had to purge a bunch of suspicious accounts after it became clear that community wide banned user, Reza, was trying to sneak into the server multiple times under various aliases (including stealing other people's usernames).

These alt accounts typically had no icon and were made on the same day as joining (or at least very close to the same day).

If anyone innocent got caught in the crossfire of this purge, please message me, u/mjmannella or another staff member, and we will unban you and you can rejoin the server.

If you are thinking of joining the server, but have a fresh Discord account, please give your account an icon and wait a couple of days before joining (you may also message me, MJ or another staff member beforehand so we have a heads-up that this account is safe to join). Once you are given the User role, you will be able to comment and confirm that you're not this banned user.

If you get unfairly banned still, again please message me, MJ or another staff member, and we will revoke the ban immediately. Unfortunately, this is just what we have to do in order to keep our Discord safe for modders and users alike, without making the Discord needlessly annoying to join (like requiring phone numbers or a typed sentence).

I hope you all understand and have a lovely day, thank you.

-Horse14t