Mike's Enhanced Dune 2000 Trainer
I'm a sucker for this classic game. Originally the trainer stopped working after Windows 98SE, most likely due to the slight architecture differences between Win9x and WinNT (2000 and XP were based off NT.) I paid someone on RentACoder.com to patch up Razor's trainer so it would work under Windows XP, and he did a pretty good job. All of the features appear to work, except for "Show Map (F4)".
If you play multiplayer practice games, It appears that enabling Atreides = Player 1 (you), Ordos = Player 2 (computer), Harkonnen = Player 3 (computer) - the colors and units will not coordinate, but you can enable instant build for the other two players (which can be very fun, racing against the computer. It's almost impossible.)
Your Dune 2000 must be updated to version 1.06 - which is included below as well. It can be applied to the stock install without an issue.
Update: I am now hosting a neat collection of maps below thanks to the folks at FED2k/Dune2k.com. It appears their downloads are offline and I could not find any other place with them. Someone was nice enough to email them to me and I am hosting them here now for everyone to enjoy!
NOTICE: A lot of people claim this is a virus. I've ran multiple virus checkers and programs for years and have used this for years without a problem. I believe it is a false positive due to the fact that it is a program which alters the memory of another program - which is probably typical virus behavior. If anyone can identify what this supposed "virus" actually does I'll be more than happy to pay someone to investigate and fix it. However, I have never seen any malicious stuff on my system because of this, and if it was a true virus, it would be caught by all the major ones that I have used. So, don't use it if you're scared; it is no skin off my back. For the thousands of downloaders (including myself) who use it without being paranoid it's a virus - enjoy!
Downloads
- dune2000-maps.zip (3,795KB, 2008/11/29)
- mikes-enhanced-dune2000-trainer.exe.txt (130KB, 2005/01/10) - remove the .txt at the end to run, this is due to too many complaints of it being a virus/malware. It is not!
- dune-2000-v1.06-update.exe (4.7MB, 1998/12/17)
your great!
only site i've found with a working trainer!
Man!! my respects to you!!
Trainer working!!
Tks!!
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your trainer working!!!!!
Tanks!
It doesn't work on my computer. I have win xp SP3 and the game always returns on first mission.
Did you make sure to update everything? Works fine for me.
Just like you.. sucker for this classic game. Dont know why, but it is satisfying.. hahaha.
Well done! Thank you for the maps and for paying to get that trainer working. This is why I love the Interwebs ^^
hey why i cant play? it sais its a spawned game wtf
? I have no clue what you're talking about.
@mike
i need cd game xd
If you don't have the game CD, then go buy one? It's probably like $5 on eBay, or $10 in a store... It might even be so old you can download it now like they did with older GTAs. I bought a copy I think off eBay years ago.
@Zebran
and me too.
? used win xp sp3
trainer not work. return the first mission.
Hmm. I think I've played it without issue on SP3, but I can give it another shot.
Hi Michael,
Like the player above, when I run the game the following message appears:
"This is a spawned game. You may only join/play LAN multiplayer games. Please restart the game with the CD to continue." There is an OK button, but clicking it just returns you to the main menu. Even though I don't wish to play against anyone but the computer, to choose any main menu option simply returns to this error message.
finally i been looking for a trainer for dune for ever and a day...thank you.... oh and mike i had the same problem... you gots to mount the iso with daemon (or another virtual drive) then run the game it will work fine after that...............
Hey guys, I'll give it a go both with the actual game CD and an ISO copy of it using Daemon Tools Lite on an XP SP3 fully up to date machine.
Hopefully tomorrow.
i have a copy of game and downloaded your trainer and update and it dont work, i dont get it, am i supposed to save update in the game file folder? sometimes it says mmmm wrong version of game trainer may not work, idk any help?
oh and i have xp home edition sp1 and a copied game too dont know if that would affect
You should upgrade your XP 🙂
No, it shouldn't need to be placed anywhere specific. Does the Dune update apply properly?
says also something about type your original dune 2000 installation directory here
i cant upgrade my xp sp2 screws things up how do u know it applies properly
@travis
Well that's just weird 🙂
You need to put in your Dune 2000 install directory, like C:\Dune2000 or wherever you installed it to.
the wrong version of game thing i dont get it says it and that the trainer might not work with it
Can you send me screenshots of these messages? Email is on the sidebar ->
when i run the update exe in the dune folder is it supposed to make the folder "type your original dune2000 installation directory here'
dude now some of the cheats work but it wont let me past the first level any help on that
Can you help me how to run Dune 2000 multiplayer game in any mode (LAN or Null modem) under XP SP3? I swer i did it once but i cant do it now again!
Thank you very much.
I really like dune and I thank you for having the trainer...
Thanks man....
Come on dudes, if you cannot pass first mission it means your iso copy is wrong! Get a correct iso, install, and optionally patch it with no-cd patch. WARNING: You must install and run from the first CD/DVD drive available on your PC otherwise it will not work. (eg: If you have 3 CD/DVD drives E: F: G: you must install and run from E:) 😉
Jihad rules!
Sorry it took so long, I finally decided to take a crack at this.
Windows XP SP3, all up to date:
I tried my original Dune 2000 CD, but apparently now it has bad blocks. Ugh.
So I mounted my backup ISO copy of it over the network using Daemon Tools Lite 4.30.3.
It installed fine, to C:\Program Files\Dune 2000 (and the internet stuff in C:\Program Files\Dune 2000\Internet)
Downloaded dune2000-v1.06-update.exe from my website, when prompted in the auto-extractor window, put in C:\Program Files\Dune 2000.
Started up mikes-enhanced-dune2000-trainer.exe, and then started the game from the Start Menu.
Alt-tabbing out of the game, I can see that my trainer's buttons are all active and selectable.
I start out by picking Atreides, "Hard" level, select Instant Build, Unlimited Spice, etc. The first mission completes instantly since the only goal is to collect spice. Mission 2 starts out without an issue as well.
Perhaps you guys do have a corrupt ISO copy? Everything works fine here, the .exe from my website is 100% intact. I haven't scanned it to check for those malware/whatever warnings though as I don't have any anti-virus on here, just Windows Defender. I did run this though a commercially licensed virus scanner (ESET) and both .exes came back clean...
will it work for vista??
@kezza
Good question - I have not tested it in Vista (nor will I :))
It would be good to know if it works in Win7, and Win7 64-bit.
I do have a laptop with Win7 64-bit I could try it out on.
Vista is a plague. Upgrade to Win7 at least, or downgrade to XP 🙂
I uploaded IceCheat Trainer +5. Not so many options but it works (tested on: Windows 9x/XP SPx):
[URL=http://uploadbox.com/files/409f10d4d0/]http://uploadbox.com/files/409f10d4d0 /[/URL]
CAUTION: If you have issues with freezing display on dual or more graphics cards>just alt-tab>disable extra displays>alt-tab and you will be OK (Please read the readme of the game too. It helps a lot to set correct parameters for your display).
Jihad rules!
Win7 is a plague too! I have installed a hacked version, but I don't want to get into the trouble to check if it runs DUNE 2000. Just for future Office releases, because I am sure they will drop support of XP to sell their garbage...
Well yes, I still am against Windows 7, but if given the choice, it is MUCH better than Vista.
XP > 7 > Windows 3.1 > Vista
It works on Windows 7. I checked it (Dune 2000 RIP) in my pirated Win7.
URGENT:
Michael Avira warns that your trainer is a Trojan:
http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/ada26f22a477a48f9db87adae.....1244716893
@Selim Wormrider
I'm not really going to bother worrying about it. It's probably because it has the same traces of something that some other game trainers have in it that DO malicious stuff. Or it finds certain calls inside of it to be trojan-like. I mean it -does- alter memory addresses of the Dune 2000 program to make things work... that's probably virus-like behavior in itself. When I hired the RentACoder guy he did not mention anything "extra" when he was tinkering with it. Anyone - feel free to pick at it, make a version that doesn't get flagged as a trojan (if possible), or figure out what this trojan does, if it truly is one, because I don't know anything about it nor have ever noticed anything from using it 🙂
can some one plz send me dune2000 full game download plz [email protected]
@david
Go buy it. It's probably a few bucks somewhere. :p
the trainer doesn't work on my computer. It said wrong version of the game or something...
@Anonymous
Did you make sure to update everything? So it's 1.06?
Also I still have not checked the game in anything above XP SP3. Not Vista or Win 7. I do have Win 7 on my laptop now, I can install the game and try it quick on that.
not to worry about that, man. I use Black XP SP3. And about updating, i don't have any crack for v1.06 so...
@Anonymous
Well, I wanted to test it anyway and totally forgot. Also, the update to 1.06 is in the links above. It should apply right on top of an installed directory. Unless you're saying you can't update it because it is cracked. I have a legit copy and I don't see where the copy protection comes into play though. It doesn't require the CD or anything else.
no man, crack for single player, not for "no cd". You know, I want to play some mission with trainer.
@Anonymous
There are some crack for v1.06 in different languages. Just search it using Google.com or faster: gamecopyworld.com or gameburnworld.com. Trust me. I've done it and now i'm playing House Harkonnen, mission 8 with a lot of unit!
I have been playing this game since the original Dune2.
I really like playing all the levels in Dune2000 with the original trainer in Win 98 but it hasn't worked since I upgraded to Win2000 then Xp.
Finally found one that works in Xp (thanks entirely to you)
I shall be eternally grateful
Kind regards
David
Southampton, UK
Well, bad news - I can't seem to figure out how to get Dune 2000 to install on 64-bit Windows 7. So I can't test compatibility on my new laptop. 🙁
Without running it inside of a VM or something of course, in which case, it would obviously be compatible assuming it's 32-bit XP or any other compatible OS. :p
Whenever I try to download the trainer, my antispyware blocks it and says it's a high risk trojan horse.
@Luke
What version of anti-spyware/etc? Someone had linked (possibly above, I'm lazy) and it was flagged as a Trojan in a few out of hundreds of anti-virus programs. I think because of it's nature of modifying memory segments or whatever it needs to do to alter how the game runs, the signatures in the file look malicious.
hey man, you're awsome, nuff said!
this is the only site I've found with a site that actually has the damn trainer on the site for download, others were just links I found that were dead ones to sites that just deleted the files. hope you keep up the files here and keep up the good work, cause... Best Trainer Evar!