So you don't have much of screen real estate to work with. So the dora indicators are all in the centre. Riichi sticks go on the discards. In 1997, 640x480 was a standard everyone had. Shanghai and Kids is the typical Mahjong Solitaire Game with lots of options: shapes, tile sets etc. Kids just gives you a friend kid voice to help you with playing. Shanghai just gives you annoying beeps whenever you do a mistake.īut we're here for the real Mahjong! Shanghai: Dynasty has 3 types: Chinese, Western and Japanese. I know nothing about Chinese Mahjong and American Mahjong, so I can't tell you anything about how well the Chinese and Western option emulate how people actually play. But the game gives you a lot of options. Let's dive into Japanese Mahjong! Multiplayer sounds nice, doesn't it? But its servers are long gone, and the client uses Java 1.1. That's 16-bit software and therefore won't even run on newer 64-bit Windows. I also apply the Shanghai: Dynasty Patch 1.21 to the base game. Why? The patch adds Riichi Mahjong to the game!Īfter starting the game itself, we're greeted by a now tiny 640x480 window. There's no option for resizing the window. We have 4 options to choose from: Shanghai, Kids, Mahjong and Multiplayer. The game uses red book audio for its soundtrack, so better have a real CD drive. Or use a proper image with proper tools. Anyway, we need on Linux we need libcdparanoia (and its 32-bit equivalent) for this to work. This also lets the game do its CD check. Even though the game is only checking for something the label DYNASTY. It can also be a partition. If you're using an ISO like I do, I mean who has optical drives these days, you have to point the d:: link to the ISO for this to work. Also, the internet archive has Shanghai: Dynasty for Download, including soundtrack.ĭepending on your OS, you might run into some DLL install error. Just ignore that and click OK, it just means you run it on something not Windows 95 and have a newer version of it already. Shanghai: Dynasty was written by Quicksilver Software. It was published by Activision in 1997 for Windows 95 and macOS 7. Sadly, it errors out on current Windows. So I've tried VM with Windows 98 and XP before, and the game still crashes the audio in the VM. But I know it runs flawlessly on Linux using WINE! I have written about old software before. I have written about Mahjong before. But I haven't done both at the same time! Let's talk about “Shanghai: Dynasty”.
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