User Guide

ENTERING THE PARK
When RollerCoaster Tycoon begins (after the title sequence, that is), you’re left looking at a
screen with four big buttons:
Start New Game lets you begin
a fresh game–a scenario
of your choosing.
Load Saved Game is what you
use to continue a game that
you saved previously.
Show Tutorial
runs the
beginner’s tutorial.
Exit shuts down the
game and returns
you to Windows.
Those of you who think you can figure it out for yourself, go ahead and
click Start New Game. For the rest of us, here’s a walk
through the tutorial.
If You Get Lost
If at any time you are unsure of what to do, or you run into something you do not understand,
please consult the Reference section of this guide. In it, there are point-by-point descriptions
of all the major parts of the game.
The Tutorial
The tutorial is a brief guide to how RollerCoaster Tycoon works. When you click the Show Tutorial
button, the game runs itself for a while. It starts one of the game scenarios, then goes through
the motions, step by step, of setting up a few rides and performing a few other important park
management tasks. You can learn a lot by watching this.
Note This!
You don’t have to just sit and watch if you don’t want to. While the tutorial is running, you can
click any mouse button or press any key on the keyboard to take over control. The only proviso
is that you can’t give control back to the tutorial. Once you take the reins, it’s your park.
As you watch the tutorial, you can follow along in this text; it’s written in the form of instructions
and their results, as if you were actually going to do the work yourself. If something the game
does in the tutorial is not clear, the chances are good that it’s
explained here. Let’s begin.
If Autoplay Doesn’t Work
If, for whatever reason, the Autoplay feature does not work when you put the CD in the drive,
here’s how to start the installation program yourself:
• Double-click your “My Computer” desktop icon.
• In the window that opens, double-click your CD-ROM drive (it’s usually the D drive).
• In the list that appears, find a file named setup.exe and double-click it.
The installation program should begin.
• As is usual in Windows installation procedures, there are two decisions you need to make
before the installation process can begin. The first decision is to what directory you want to
install the game. You can accept the default, type in a directory path, or use the Browse
button to seek out a directory. Click OK when you’re done.
• The second decision is what sort of installation you want to do. Pick one of the options presented:
Minimum - installs all of the files required to play the game, but leaves some of the larger files
on the CD. This type of installation strikes a balance between the needs of game speed (more
files copied) versus conserving hard disk space (less files copied).
Full - installs the entire game, including all of the larger files. If you have the hard disk space
to spare, doing a Full installation can make the game run faster.
• Click Install to continue. (If you change your mind at this point, click Exit.)
• RollerCoaster Tycoon will now copy the files you selected to your hard drive from the CD-ROM.
• After the game itself has been copied over, RollerCoaster Tycoon installs a few necessary utility
programs. These include Microsoft’s DirectX drivers (version 5.0). Note that the space these
take up was not included in the total noted when you selected what type of installation to do.
Once the installation is complete, the game is ready to go.
To start playing now:
• Leave the RollerCoaster Tycoon CD-ROM in the drive.
• Click the Play button.
To play later:
• Make sure that the RollerCoaster Tycoon CD-ROM is in its drive.
• Open the Windows Start menu,select the Programs menu then open the Hasbro Interactive
menu, then open the RollerCoaster Tycoon sub-menu, and then click the RollerCoaster Tycoon
option.
OR
• When you put the CD in, you can wait for the Autoplay screen to pop up, then click the Play
button.
Have fun!
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