Cannon Fodder Dies after mission 21

[Al82]

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

The mission 20 crash only if you play the game without loosing for a long time.

Ahhh - this might be what I've encountered...I'd been creating a video trying to beat each mission without losing any men.

When you say "lose", do you mean fail missions completely (so it says try again)?

[Sinphaltimus]

It's good to see work around this crash (by losing just before level 20 I guess, then continuing?) Cannon fodder is on my list of "must finish" games.

[Al82]

Didn't work unfortunately - I tried saving to the save disk, resetting the machine and then playing the mission again from the loaded game but same thing happened.

I also went back a mission and suicided a bunch of troops, then tried playing mission 20 and it crashes at the same point (sector 53 of the third disk).

In the end, I had to load the mission from a save disk I downloaded and finish the rest of the game that way.

[jotd]

I wonder who cracked Cannon Fodder 2, because AFAIR it had no protection whatsoever (DOS disks, no copylock)

More news from the Qwak crack later

[dlfrsilver]

Originally Posted by jotd

I wonder who cracked Cannon Fodder 2, because AFAIR it had no protection whatsoever (DOS disks, no copylock)

More news from the Qwak crack later

It has a copylock, the french release had one and had to be cracked

Mine dies after mission 19. Which rom ver is best?

[dlfrsilver]

It does not die. you have to swap between disk 2 and 3 when you meet the black screen, and press mouse button.

[UrBi]

There is a BUG in the game !!! Exceed 250 recruits and the recruitment
screen graphics will corrupt, causing a crash. Choosing "unlimited
soldiers" will not allow you to exceed 250 recruits. IF you play the
game un-trained, there is no way you could reach this number anyway !!!

Both parts of the game have the same error.

[dlfrsilver]

Originally Posted by UrBi

There is a BUG in the game !!! Exceed 250 recruits and the recruitment
screen graphics will corrupt, causing a crash. Choosing "unlimited
soldiers" will not allow you to exceed 250 recruits. IF you play the
game un-trained, there is no way you could reach this number anyway !!!

Both parts of the game have the same error.

oh yes, but indeed, even by really playing the game well, you will never get 250 recruits.

[Retroplay]

I've been wondering why they left out the helicopter on the mission screens in the localized versions.

[Thegoldenman]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Hello Davittt,

Welcome to EAB

I've uploaded Cannon Fodder by Fairlight 100% working to The Zone! for you.

Thank dlfrsilver for play testing this and originally uploading it for everyone

As for a save state, maybe somebody else can help you with this request...

Can someone post a crc32 or md5 ?

[demolition]

Originally Posted by Retroplay

I've been wondering why they left out the helicopter on the mission screens in the localized versions.

Cracked or originals as well? Perhaps they ran out of space and had to leave something out..
Edit: Sorry for necroing that post - just noticed now that it was from 2018.

[Retroplay]

Original as well.
SPS 2332 (France) and unofficial German ipf both lacks helicopter.

[RichL]

Completed mission 22 after the died in service / hero’s in victory screens, the screen corrupts, music stops and just lots of flashing red on the screen.

Using the FLT disks.

Win UAE stock A500, 512k RAM and 512k expanded. 2 disk drives.

[RichL]

Actually it got past mission 22, I did all phases of mission 23 but the same thing happens now at hero / died in service bit at the end of mission 23.

I checked and I have 237 recruits so isn't the over 250 bug as mentioned above.

I've only managed to finish this game once on original disks back in the day. And so nearly at the end again as mission 24 is the last mission of 6 phases.