SimCity 3000 won't work (yeah the one from 9 years ago)

doorknob60 · 2009-10-06 01:27:59

I can get it installed, and set up a launcher for the ld preload hacks, and the last thing I need to so is patch the game, but look what happens when I run the patch.

Verifying archive integrity...tail: cannot open `+6' for reading: No such file or directory
Error in check sums 1461164458 2069455402

I've googled about it, and everyone says using the env variable _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 will fix it...well it doesn't. Any ideas?

davvil · 2009-10-06 09:40:15

doorknob60 wrote:

I can get it installed, and set up a launcher for the ld preload hacks, and the last thing I need to so is patch the game, but look what happens when I run the patch.
Verifying archive integrity...tail: cannot open `+6' for reading: No such file or directory

It seems the patch uses the old syntax for tail. Try editing it (I assume is a bash script with binary code embedded) substituting 'tail +6' with 'tail -n+6'.

doorknob60 · 2009-10-09 06:23:30

It does, but last time I tried editing it, saving it corrupted the binary part (all the files). I'll try again when I get the chance, though.

Celti · 2009-11-12 12:10:44

This is a bit of thread necromancy, but I ran into this and managed to solve the issue.

_POSIX2_VERSION=199209 sh sc3u-2.0a-x86.run --keep

The environment variable does fix it - but then you run into a second part that breaks. Adding --keep leaves a working directory around (that you can delete yourself, afterward), but skips the broken bit.

Hope this helps people.

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#1 2009-10-06 01:27:59

SimCity 3000 won't work (yeah the one from 9 years ago)

#2 2009-10-06 09:40:15

Re: SimCity 3000 won't work (yeah the one from 9 years ago)

#3 2009-10-09 06:23:30

Re: SimCity 3000 won't work (yeah the one from 9 years ago)

#4 2009-11-12 12:10:44

Re: SimCity 3000 won't work (yeah the one from 9 years ago)

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