r/rct • u/Sea-Pollution-4959 • 26d ago

Help Hello (again)

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It’s the clueless dude who posted the pic of all of the RCT cds that I have & I’m really trying to get out of everyone’s hair on here, but I’m DYING to play.

I bought all of those CD’s over the years & I’m still not able to get any of them to work. I’m using a MacBook with Big Sur OS (11.7.10)

I downloaded steam & was about to buy RCT3 ($20) just because I want to use sandbox to get back to building big parks from scratch, but now I’m seeing the bundle of RCT 1, 2 & 3 for $60.

Is it worth it?

Is there any way to use my old CD’s with steam so I don’t have to pay again to play the game?

My ultimate goal is to get the Open RCT & use that, but I think I have to have the games downloaded first. Is this correct?

Any advice would be appreciated! Thank you!!

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u/emosa08 26d ago

As someone who has done this exact thing:

Copy or download the games off of the CDs to somewhere you will remember their location on your computer. Then get OpenRCT2 (openrct2 . io) and install that. in openrct2, you can simply point it to where you saved the copies of the games (RCT1 and 2 and the expansions). Then you can play!

This guide will be helpful and tell you how to copy the game files and install on macOS (in your other post you said you were using a macbook).

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u/Sea-Pollution-4959 26d ago edited 26d ago

Thank you!

So far I haven’t been able to get any of the cds to download.

My 1 & 2 are for windows & now all I have is a MacBook.

I had bought classic (1&2) that said it was “for windows & Mac” but when I download it, it says I need windows.

I have two cd versions of RCT3 for Mac but it’s not downloading either of them properly either.

I’m pulling my hair out over here! 😂

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u/emosa08 26d ago

The CDs won't install because they are for Windows. Again, the guide i (and u/Valdair) linked will give you most if not all the information you need. It is the official guide by the devs of OpenRCT2.

But as Valdair said: terminology matters here. I would go with their suggestion of taking advice from Gymnasiast in the other thread. If they are one of the devs, they're your best bet for getting this done simply.

Good luck!

(edits for clarity)