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Homeworld Troubleshooting

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I just installed Homeworld, and even after rebooting the game says that I have an invalid CD in, and cannot play. Could someone help me here?
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You got the GOTY edition, right? Did you put in the music CD or the game CD?
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THERE'S ONLY ONE CD IN THE GOTY EDITION!
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Beowulf wrote:THERE'S ONLY ONE CD IN THE GOTY EDITION!
There wasn't in my version.
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Several hours of playing that game got me frustrated enough to never play it again. Way to complicated to be fun.
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Beowulf wrote:THERE'S ONLY ONE CD IN THE GOTY EDITION!
I bought the GOTY version and there were 2 cd's in mine too.


And now to reply to a different post:
David wrote:Several hours of playing that game got me frustrated enough to never play it again. Way to complicated to be fun.
I felt the same way at first, but it's just that the game has a steep learning curve
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JediNeophyte wrote:
Beowulf wrote:THERE'S ONLY ONE CD IN THE GOTY EDITION!
There wasn't in my version.
My friend got 2 cd's also in the GOTYE
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And I've got the second CD sitting right next to me, to boot.
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Then how come I only got one?!?
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Beowulf wrote:Then how come I only got one?!?
Maybe yours was a return copy and the first purchaser didn't put the cd back in when they returned it? Or maybe it was stolen out of your box b4 you bought it. I worked at best buy, that kind of stuff use to happen all the time
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Beowulf wrote:Then how come I only got one?!?
Shitty quality control where the games were boxed?
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Hmm... The box was still factory sealed when I got it...
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Stores can re-seal boxes that were returned.
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phongn wrote:Stores can re-seal boxes that were returned.
I use to re-seal stuff all the time and it looks the same as when the factory did it
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Yeah, but Fry's will shrink-wrap it and put a stick on it saying that it was returned...
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Never mind, after I made the post I noticed that on the other CD there was a notice saying it had the latest updates. So I used it and it works, me a happy camper!
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