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Forum moved and a contest!

Warll — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:26:34 +0000

Just a heads up, the forum has now moved permanently to be hosted under smrsimple. Over the years we’ve outgrown our old home at Hooked Gamers and so Falconer was kind enough to hand off everything to me.

To start everything off we’re having a contest. More specifically the “2010 Screenshot Contest!” head over the the 2010 Sid Meier’s Railroad Screenshot Contest! topic to learn more.

Happy Birthday!

Warll — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:19:22 +0000

As of today the 17th of the 10th month of 2009 Sid Meier’s Railroads is now three years old! Since Sid Meier’s Railroads!: Intercontinental was launch to coincided with Sid Sid Meier’s Railroads’ first birthday it itself is now two years old as well.

A lot has happened in these short years, not least of which is now just about every modern computer is able to run Sid Meier’s Railroads on the highest settings. To celebrate I’m going to go play a game of Sid Meier’s Railroads online and dream about what the next year is going to bring.

Program to automatically move maps around.

Warll — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:38:04 +0000

Due to a limitation of the program you will have to change the file extension on zip files to .7z instead of .zip in order for the program to recognize them, David should be able to fix this.

So its been on my, and I’m sure others wishlists, for a while now, a simple program to manage maps. Moving the maps in and out of the Usermaps folder is quite trivial right? Well I thought so and approached my friend to see if he would be kind enough to write up a program to do so. Turns out it was not near as simple as I had hoped. Even still the poor guy put up with my demands and churned out over ten revisions, and at least one UI overhaul all in under nine hours. If you are interested his site can be found at bigtreeworld.com he also has programed his own web browser you might want to check out too. The program requires the Microsoft .NET framework to run, Windows Vista and Windows Seven ahould already have the required files.

Instructions:

Download any number of maps from the map database
Just like when you move files by hand “My Games/Sid Meier’s Railroads!” must be empty, if your is not see this post here
Copy the .zip files you downloaded all into one folder, it does not matter which folder.
Run SMR-MapShifter and select the folder where you stored the maps.
Optionally you may go into the settings menu and select if Sid Meier’s Railraods!.exe is to be launched after the files are moved, sadly this feature does not work if Sid Meier’s Railraods!.exe is not in the default directory.
Select the map from the list and press the “Shift the Map!” button.
The files have now been moved over and you may now select the new map from within Sid Meier’s Railroads!
To play another map just run SMR-MapShifter again and select another map, the press “Shift the Map!”. The program will take care of clearing the /usermaps folder and then copy the new map over.

Download MapShifter installer | 468KB