can cavestory run on windows 98

Jul 21, 2015 at 6:52 PM
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I'm trying to run cavestory from an originally windows vista dual boot with windows 98. When i try to open the EXE file i doesnt do anything exept show the busy (hour glass) cursor then returns to normal. My hardware i good enought for it (1gb ram, 2ghz processor, a video driver capable of cave story(it played ikachan pretty well) heck i can even play Minecraft on the system(although it is unplayably laggy). I also have KernelX and microsoft visual Cpp runtime library. Despite all this cavestory will not run on the system. And there aren't many topics about this so i posted one myself. I also understand that if I needed to play this badly i could boot into vista, but i would still like to run it on my windows 98 partition if possible.



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Jul 21, 2015 at 6:57 PM
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Maybe it does, seeing as Cave Story's development started around 1999(If I'm not mistaken).

I could always try to see if it works on a real 98/95 system if I get home before this thread dies, but that would take too much time.
 
Jul 21, 2015 at 7:10 PM
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do you have DirectX 7
 
Jul 21, 2015 at 7:15 PM
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I have directX 8 or 9 when i try to install directX 7 it detectas a newer version and quits.
 
Jul 21, 2015 at 7:31 PM
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I remember playing Cave Story on Windows 98 using VMWare before. I admit, it was a bit laggy because VMWare can take so much memory.
 
Jul 21, 2015 at 7:48 PM
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Installing win98 on hardware not meant for it way harder than a virtual machine, I cant even use my disk drive-and here i was thinking it would be easy as or easer than a VM

ill go with a fresh install
YAY IT WORKED all i needed was a fresh install sorry for te trouble.
(The one i was trying to run was the one i think i was skrewing around with in ollydbg to see it it would glitch out or something.)
 
Jul 21, 2015 at 7:52 PM
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> messes with exe
> doesn't run anymore
> ???

well, mystery solved gang.
 
Jul 21, 2015 at 11:32 PM
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it does, if you look on the deluxe package installer it actually says a minimum requirement of Windows 95. Plus, I've played it on a 98 before (My first time beating Hell.)
 
Jul 22, 2015 at 8:37 PM
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Is Vista that bad that you'd downgrade to 98?
 
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