Installing CorsixTH and Theme Hospital
For those of you who have heard of Theme Hospital, there is an open-source clone called CorsixTH. This tutorial is about how to download and install the second playable beta of CorsixTH.
Requirements
- These instructions are for Windows – Linux folk usually help themselves and Mac folk don’t know how to play games.
- CorsixTH uses the data files from the original Theme Hospital game. Where you find a copy of the original game is beyond the scope of this tutorial. Ask around.
- The data files need to be unpacked or mounted. In this tutorial we have installed Virtual CloneCD and mounted the downloaded image.
- You’ll need to download the second playable beta of Corsix TH.
Installing Theme Hospital
You’ve either unpacked the files somewhere or mounted the ISO using a DVD emulator (such as Virtual CloneCD). Either way is fine, as long as you can get to the game files.
We’re not going to install Theme Hospital, we’re just going to copy its files.
Your Theme Hospital image should be mounted.
Right click on the virtual drive and choose open.
You should now see all the files from the game.
Right click on the HOSP directory and choose copy.
The rest of the files are not necessary. Only the HOSP directory contains the data files for the actual game.
Right click in some other folder and choose paste.
It doesn’t matter where you paste them as long as you know in which directory you put the files. Choosing My Documents is easy because the directory is shown (see screenshot lower down).
The files are being copied...
Copying done! Go into the folder with a double-click.
Remeber where the files are!
That path, encircled, is what you’ll be needing later when you install CorsixTH.
Installing CorsixTH
Go to the download page of CorsixTH.
Select the installer.
Save the file somewhere.
When the download is complete, run the file.
Yes, Windows. Run the installer.
English will do fine.
Next.
That's interesting. Next.
Where to install Corsix TH. The default is fine.
Remember where you copied Theme Hospital to? Copy that address.
Paste the Theme Hospital address / path here. The path should end with HOSP.
Next.
Yay! Finished!
You have now installed CorsixTH and pointed it to the place where you have your original Theme Hospital data files.
Running CorsixTH
Corsix TH can be found in the start menu.
If it works correctly you’ll see the screen below:
The Corsix TH opening menu.
CorsixTH encountered an error during startup – consult the log window for details.
Error message telling you that the Theme Hospital data files could not be found.
If you see this message it’s probably because the address to the data files is not correct.
Go to where you installed CorsixTH. The default is C:\Program Files\CorsixTH.
In the Corsix TH program files directory, there is a config.txt.
Double-click the config.txt file to open it with notepad.
Make sure the theme_hospital_install setting is correct.
When you type in the correct address for the files, make sure you include the double square brackets.
theme_hospital_install = [[C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\HOSP]]
If that still doesn’t work, join us on the #corsix-th IRC channel.
“Mac folk don’t know how to play games”, are you stupid?
April 16th, 2012 at 15:34