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Monopoly Tycoon

Windows - 2001

Year 2001
Platform Windows
Released in Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States (2001)
Germany (2002)
Australia, Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden (2003)
Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, United Kingdom (2004)
Germany (2005)
Genre Strategy
Theme Board / Party Game, Licensed Title
Publisher Atari Interactive, Inc., Infogrames Interactive, Inc., Novitas Publishing GmbH
Developer Deep Red Games Ltd.
Perspective Isometric
4.41 / 5 - 140 votes

Description of Monopoly Tycoon

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Recently, there've been a bunch of different tycoon series of games. This isn't from any of them.

Monopoly Tycoon, like the name suggests, is based on the classic board game "Monopoly". It has all of the classic locations, as well as a set of docklands properties which may or may not be from some international version of the game I've never seen.

Unlike the board game, which took a completely abstracted approach to running your business empire, this game throws you into the daily affairs of organising a business empire.

In this game, you can run day stores (which fall broadly into two categories, food and goods), and night stores (which sell entertainment services), as well as setting up apartments and hotels. The citizens quickly learn which blocks provide which services, so organising your blocks into sets of each of these three areas is a must. Stock is bought in the morning, and maximum levels are dictated by the base size and number of floors of the business. You can set prices for the goods sold in the stores, too, and you have to keep an eye on the opposition to make sure they're not undercutting you and stealing away our business.

Businesses can be of high, medium or low quality, depending on the block you're building them on. You must keep track of what you're building because a low-quality shack on either of the indigo blocks won't attract business from the wealthy residents, and won't bring in business from the people living in low-quality blocks either.

The AI of the city's inhabitants is good, they learn where they'll get the best deals, and they will ignore you if you're not it. The class system of the townspeople is basic, but effective, the poorer people are, the less concerned they are about image and location, and more about price. The rich people don't care how much they pay, so long as they don't have to walk too far to get it, or hang around with the plebs of the city.

It is possible to lease city blocks for 25-year periods, which can bring you rental income from opponents' properties, or simply prevent you from having to pay it.

There are also city services, such as the Railways, Waterworks and Electric Company, as well as the new Telecoms and Gasworks utilities. Building up a monopoly of either of these aspects of city services is just as devastating as it is in the board game. Opponents' AI is variable, opponents tend to change radically when they're in trouble, but all are consistent with the way they're described by the game. Not too nice for the couple of AI players the design team decided to brand "moron", though. You'll find that a player will usually follow the same tactics, game after game. Some want property, some want lots of businesses, some want the utilities, and it's possible to learn these patterns and exploit them, but they really do feel as if you're playing and exploiting the weaknesses of a personality, rather than just a bot.

Overall, Monopoly Tycoon is one of the best "modern conversions" of popular board games you'll ever find. The underlying economic model is top-notch, the gameplay is fun and innovative, and the nostalgia is intact. The game moves at a frantic pace which may just prove too much for some, but which is ultimately true to the spirit of the board game. Highly recommended, and an induction into the Hall of Belated Fame.

Review By HOTUD

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Comments and reviews

Kiwi 2025-01-31 1 point

Just got it working on my Windows 10 PC! Played (and lost) a few rounds and noticed no issues at all with all cutscenes and music working. I had this game growing up and remember it being fun and I can safely say it has aged pretty well.

I saw other people posting about their install process so I want to share mine in case it helps anyone. I didn't install any of the Extra Packs or textures but if you do I'd suggest doing so after these steps have been done and the game is proven to run. There's a chance the extra packs cause a conflict with the No-CD patch but I can't confirm for sure (just a hunch).

1) Download the following: Core Game "Monopoly-Tycoon_Win_EN_ISO-Version.zip", Patch v1.4 "Monopoly-Tycoon_Patch_Win_EN_Patch-v14.zip", No-CD Patch "Monopoly-Tycoon_NoCD_Win_EN_For-version-14.zip", and the Music Fix Patch "Monopoly-Tycoon_Fix_Win_EN_Music-Fix-Installer-v16.zip". You should have four separate .zip files after doing this.

2) On each .zip file, right-click and extract/unzip the contents into their own unique folders. You can use your favorite compression program like Winrar, 7-Zip, or Windows 10's built-in one. If you're using the built-in extraction feature, when you right-click you'll see the option "Extract All..." in the dropdown. Clicking it will pop-up a window letting you choose the location and folder name to extract the .zip file to. Change it to wherever you like and click the "Extract" button. Again, do this for all four .zip files you downloaded and give them their own unique folders.

3) Go to the extracted Core Game folder and mount the game's installation disc "MONOPOLY_TYCOON.iso". Windows 10 can do this by default so you can either double-click the .iso file or right-click and select "Mount". You can also use a program such as WinCDEmu, Alcohol 120% Free, or any other .iso mounting software if you prefer them.

4) The installation tool will pop-up for the game once the .iso disc has been mounted/inserted. Follow the on-screen prompts such as selecting your install directory for the game and proceed until the core game is installed. When installation is finished you don't need to launch the game yet, but don't worry if you do. Simply close out of the launcher or game and proceed to the next steps.

5) Go to the extracted Patch v1.4 folder and run the patch program "MTPatch1_4.exe". Follow the on-screen prompts until it tells you the patch installation was complete and the window closes.

6) Go to the extracted No-CD Patch folder and run the patch program "lpatch.exe" as an Administrator. You can do this by right-clicking the .exe file and choosing "Run as administrator". This is so the program has permission to edit the game's .exe file. When running as administrator you'll get a pop-up for "User Account Control" verifying you wish to run this program. Click "Yes" and you'll see the patcher's window. Click "Yes" for it to begin the patching process. It'll bring up a window with some info on the patch process that'll tell you when it completes its task. That Security pop-up may require you to select "More Info" and give you a button to click saying "Run Anyway".

If you get an error message titled "File not found" reading with "The file mc.exe has not been found in the current directory", click the "Yes" button and it'll let you manually navigate to that file "mc.exe". It'll be in your core game's install directory, which for me defaulted to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Infogrames\Monopoly Tycoon".

7) Go to the extracted Music Fix Patch folder and run the patch batch script "ApplyPatch.bat" as an Administrator. You can do this by right-clicking the .exe file and choosing "Run as administrator". This is so the program has permission to install an audio codec that the game's music depends on. The patcher will start working right away and will show a console window with either green or red text. If it's green text that says the patch completed successfully then this step is done. If the text is red or otherwise says the patch failed, check out the "How to Install.txt" file that came with the patcher and verify you've done what it suggests there.

8) Go to "This PC" (can be found by going to your Search bar and typing "This PC"). In the left side of the window that pops up, right-click the Monopoly Tycoon mounted disc from the dropdown options. Select "Eject" to unmount the disc as you'll no longer need it so long as the No-CD patch worked. If you're using an .iso mounting program you should also be able to eject it from that software's system tray icon if for some reason you can't eject the way described.

9) Launch Monopoly Tycoon. You can do this by using the shortcut on your desktop (if you chose to have one put there), by searching the game's name in your Search bar, or by launching "mc.exe" in the game's install directory. This should bring up the launcher/config window.

10) Click "Configuration" and give it a few seconds to respond. It'll then pop-up a list of options for you to change as you see fit. Note that you can keep the "No Sound" and "No Music" options un-checked as that's only something you need to consider if the Music Fix Patch failed. So change any configuration settings you want and press the "Done" button.

11) Click "Advanced Options" and change the settings as you see fit. I recommend check-marking the "Windowed mode" for your first run of the game to see if things launch and play well. Full-screen can cause issues on certain setups so it's not a bad idea to verify the game worked in windowed mode before trying full-screen but it's up to you. So change any configuration settings you want and press the "Done" button.

12) Click "Play" and give the game a whirl! If you're in windowed mode you may see the window resize once or twice while it's running the intro videos but it'll stabilize to the resolution you selected earlier.

Feel free to clean up and delete the .zip files and their extracted folders if everything runs as you won't need them anymore. If the game asks for a CD, retry the No-CD patch in case you missed it. Verify you're running the No-CD patch on version 1.4 of the game (the latest patched version). If it still doesn't work, uninstall the game then retry the process from step 1. Ultimately if the No-CD patch doesn't work and it requires you to have the disc mounted/inserted, do so by going to the game's .iso file and double-clicking it. You can verify that the disc is mounted/inserted by going to "This PC" as described before and seeing if it shows Monopoly Tycoon's disc on the left side of the window.

Also if you get stuck in the game window such as when it's full-screen and it won't close out, try doing Alt+F4. If that doesn't work, hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc and see if you can use Task Manager to force close the "mc.exe" process. When restarting the game you may want to go to your game settings and disable intro movies in case that's why it got stuck if it happens right as you launch the game.

Hippie 2024-10-11 2 points

I'll start this by saying that I'm not good at this stuff and I don't really know what I did, but I'll share to the best of my memory in the hopes that this will help someone else:

1) I downloaded the ISO version (107mb) as well as Patch v1.4 (3mb), NoCD for version 1.4 (31kb), and the Music Fix Installer v1.6 (721kb).
2) I extracted them to their own folders (ISO, Patch, NOCD, Music Fix, respectively) because it got confusing otherwise.

3) In the ISO folder, I ran MTInstall.exe and installed as normal, did not install GameSpy, and unchecked all of the boxes at the end because I didn't want to open/run anything else.
4) Still within the ISO folder, I opened the Extras folder, then the Patch folder, and ran MTPatch1_2.exe (I have no idea if this was necessary).
5) I moved the downloaded patch file (MTPatch1_4.exe) to this same folder before running it. Moving it was probably unnecessary but it helps me to keep track of these things.

6) In the NOCD folder, I ran Ipatch.exe as administrator. It was unable to find the mc.exe file, and so I had to manually select it under [ C:\Program Files (x86)\Infogrames\Monopoly Tycoon ]. This is where I don't really know what happened, as I was running into problems and clicking a lot of things. I think running Ipatch.exe as administrator rather than simply double-clicking the file is what helped. Maybe this is obvious, I don't know.
6.5) In the middle of my clicking, my computer started doing weird things and Windows tried running the troubleshooter (multiple times). Unfortunately I don't remember the details, other than selecting an option to use compatibility settings? I have no idea if this helped or was necessary, but in case you run into this too: select the compatibility settings. This was before I figured out the running as administrator thing.

7) With the Ipatch.exe finally succeeding, I launched the game menu. I clicked Advanced Options and checked the boxes for "Disable intro movie", "Disable hardware mixing", and "Disable 3d sound" after watching an installation guide video from KarmaTastic on YouTube (I don't know if this was necessary as the video didn't cover the problems I was actually facing, but just in case).
8) The video also says to go to Configuration and check the box to disable music, but this is later unnecessary. Still, just in case.
9) I ran the game to make sure that it works and it did, yay!

10) I closed the game, opened the Music Fix folder, and then (after reading How to Install.txt) ran ApplyPatch.bat which worked without issue, double yay!
11) I opened the game, turned the music back on, and ran the game successfully. Final yay!

I hope this helps someone in the future, because I have no idea what Marty was saying about mounting and I was getting very confused and worried there for a bit. My game appears to be running without issue now :-)

Tasha 2024-07-06 0 point

This GAME was my favorite!!!!

Bobble 2024-03-27 1 point

Tried following Marty but it didn't work. The little launcher appears but clicking the play button doesn't do anything, then one of the buttons do anything you have to sign out to close the damn thing.

Brute 2024-02-06 1 point

Download the nocd from here, confirmed working for me.

https://aluigi.altervista.org/patches/montyc14.zip (mirrored on this page)

Also,if anyone is trying to run this through wine, if you install a windows media codec pack to the prefix, it will also fix the no music issue.

Cheers

Cat 2023-12-20 1 point

I had it, I had it, I had it running nice and smooth, did a windows update and now it wants the CD again. I uninstalled, reinstalled, went through all the steps and no joy... just wants CD. Gutted

Rasmus 2023-11-29 0 point

MARTY's guide (another comment here) for Windows 10 worked perfectly for me. Tried it myself a few months back but gave up eventually. Making sure to not run the game before installing the patch and disabling the music etc worked like a charm.

Dubaifreak 2023-06-18 0 point

On my Windows 7 32-bit machine, this game was like grounded threats: it didn't work!

Mono 2023-04-02 0 point

Big issue is:
"Enabling the music makes the game crash on Windows Vista and later. This is due to the usage of the Windows Media Source Filter (a DirectShow codec) being used to stream .wma files directly from the local Hard Disk, instead of streaming from the CD. Only three games are known to use the filter. Following Windows Vista's release, the filter was removed." (Wikipedia)

Shifty 2023-03-03 1 point

Cant get it to work. Not sure why this game is harder to make work than any other game on this site.. but I gave up lol

Tattered 2022-11-15 2 points

I just spent three hours getting the game to work, installed the 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 patches, all three of the extras, and trouble shooting before finding a 1.7 fix for the music... I now have a complete folding of every needed for this game... how do I give this to someone to put here so every one can have those 1.3 and 1.4 patches, and the more up-to-date music fix?

I just want everyone to have the Nostalgia trip I'm having now.

MiKL 2022-11-04 0 point

Finally I find this game in which I past hours.... years ago !!
But I cannot install it. I follow the Marty procedure, and when the install starts, I have an error message linked to iKernel.exe (0x2000).
Any help please ?
Thanks !

Mithrilpotion 2022-08-06 0 point

There is a discord for this for multiplayer sessions! And a Facebook group!

Avery 2022-02-02 4 points

As a kid I remember being amazed by this game but I never understood how to play it, now I can play it and that's an amazing nostalgic feeling.

Coolstorybro 2021-12-22 0 point

It keeps telling me to insert disc when I try to run it, I thought maybe finding and mounting the ISO file would work but I cant find the iso file anywhere. Can someone tell me if they're having the same issue and how they fixed it please.

JC 2021-12-14 0 point

Missing a single-play game mode? not the sandbox

Doc 2021-11-15 -2 points

I still own my copy of MT. I found a torrent out there some years ago with the "NO CD" launcher of this game and it works great and it is not infected like others I had tried. I still have all my saves from when I started playing this game. A recent check on the game showed I was missing some of the Bronze levels which I know I completed. I finished them up in no time. I have been running Windows 11 Pro and I have been playing this game since Windows XP. I never needed any patches or fixes for music, because frankly, I disabled the music as I had trouble launching the game at one point in 2004-2006 and I personally do not like music in the background when I am playing. But playing this game in November 2021 on Windows 11 Pro is amazing. Just like old the good old days and WITHOUT THE CD / ISO.

Amazing Games 2021-05-27 -8 points

Easy setup for this game to work on any computer.
1. Find as much old metal jewelry as possible.
2. Melt all the pieces over 5000btu burning source.
3. Shape your melted metal into a sword.
4. Connect your computer to the sword with a 200 yard extention cord.
5. Wait for the first lightning storm of June.
6. Only during a full moon eclipse you can attempt point your sword to the sky while reciting the words of Macarena backward.
6. If the lightning strike your sword you are now allowed to download the game.

Gwen 2020-10-31 -7 points

Hello, thank you for the link

i need a password to extract the game.
Is it normal ?
Do you know where could i find it ?

TallJohn 2020-08-09 1 point

I love this game. When I had the CD's years ago, I could save the game that I was in the process of playing. Now, the "Save" button is not active. How do I save a game in progress? Thanks.

dumb004 2020-05-06 -1 point

You guys can download 'Daemon Tools Lite' to your PC. And then right-click on the ISO file, and open it with Daemon Tools Lite. Or you can also open Daemon Tools Lite, browse through your PC Library, and select the ISO file. The file will be mounted as a disk in 'My PC'

chris 2020-05-02 0 point

I've missed this game!

sabjkz3361 2020-04-24 0 point

attempting to download monopoly tycoon followed the instructions but I don't know what the ISO is and how do you download it

WizzStar 2020-04-17 0 point

Anyone knows how to change language ????

Marty 2020-03-27 27 points

This is absolutely great. I'm running this on Windows 10 and even the multiplayer mode works, at least I can connect to my Win 10 virtual machine which also runs this game :-)

OK, here is what you do (Win 10 only):

1st: Download the ISO and the patch. Don't bother with the other stuff for now.

2nd: If you want to play the multiplayer activate Direct Play via Control Panel - Programs and Features - Turn Windows Features on or off - Activate Direct Play in Legacy Components. If you don't want to play against your friends in the multiplayer don't bother.

3rd: Unzip all the files you just downloaded and find the ISO. Mount the ISO via right click on the ISO file.

4th: Install the game on your computer. Don't start the game after the install.

5th: Apply the patch next. Don't start the game after installing the patch.

6th: Unmount the ISO by going to This PC and do a right click on the virtual CD Rom and click eject.

7th: Copy or move the ISO file in a folder where you'll always find it because you'll need to mount it every time you want to play.

Now you could delete all the files you've downloaded, or save them for later :-)

8th: Mount the ISO and start the game as administrator. No need to select a compatibility mode. A little window should appear. Click on Configuration and flag No Music. Select the highest settings in Bit Depth and Screen resolution. If your max screen resolution is not listen you have to set it manually. Click on done.

9th: Click on start game and it should run. It even runs on my virtual machine.

10th: If yo want to play in the multiplayer and you have activated direct play you need to hop back on the desktop a few time with tab + alt and approve the firewall settings for this game. (I had to do this 3 times)

11th: Have fun :-)

Manual screen setting: Find the config.cfg in your games folder and open it with the notepad. Replace SysSetup width and SysSetup height with you settings. If the game doesn't start, try something else.

Ouch23 2020-02-29 0 point

Nice Game !!

needinghelp 2020-02-28 1 point

hey!
I can't get it passed the screen asking for the disk. as I get from previous comments the game needs to be mounted. how do I do that and when? can someone with more knowledge provide a step by step instructions. Would be very helpful.

thank you :)

Michael 2020-02-22 0 point

Downloaded the game. Played the game for a couple hours.

Came back three days later, and it requires a CD.

I've learned that the game has to be "mounted." Downloading magicISO and Gizmo brought no resolution. Of course, I'm a million times outside of my sphere of knowledge, but it seems you may need a computer science degree to navigate these things.

I got two fun hours out of it when I actually never thought I'd be able to play this game again, so I'll leave with my head high.

mark lad 2020-01-30 1 point

is it just me or does this download not come with "skirmish mode" - a fundamental part of the monopoly tycoon game. Is the download somewhat incomplete? My single player mode only has the campaign.

Joe mama 2019-09-12 -2 points

*Default dance*

Tonya 2019-07-02 1 point

Can you download this and run it on rasberry pi 3b?

Ebonie 2019-05-10 2 points

Mine comes up as Invalid Member: RailutilincomeEASY

thepurplemartin 2019-04-09 0 point

Thanks for the download! worked when I installed the 1.2v here: https://archive.org/details/MonopolyTycoon1.2. Ran in Windows 98 compatibility mode. Had to turn sound off, 1.6 sound fix did not work.

Blaze 2019-02-19 -7 points

Magic.Iso works to mount the game.
Once the patch to v1.2 is installed correctly. The loading screen stops crashing make sure to run it in 95 compatibility mode and run as administrator and it works fine :)

Heywood Jablomie 2018-12-27 -27 points

My grandmother died today.

Omadi 2018-11-24 0 point

Dl'd first the game, then the patch. As I generally turn off sound for all games anyway, this was not an issue. Needed the patch, tho, to get it to get past the splash screen. PC using Windows 10, no problems, post-patch install. I loved this game many years ago, but lost that harddrive long ago, so it's nice to be able to replace this game. thanks!

mrpenguinb 2018-11-17 -1 point

Download the fix below the 1.2 patch. Extract the .zip file contents into a folder and then run the ApplyPatch.bat as Administrator. If Windows Smart screen pops-up, click "More info" and then "Run Anyway".
The patch should be successfully applied!

Eliza.King 2018-11-11 1 point

Crashes in the opening cinematic with an error message saying something has gone terribly wrong lol

running with 95 compatibility.

mrpenguinb 2018-10-23 2 points

Here is a proper guide on how to get the game to play music properly again: https://mcdebugrndmstuff.blogspot.com/2018/10/monopoly-tycoon-directsound-music-fix.html

mrpenguinb 2018-10-23 1 point

To get the game running WITH music enabled, you need to get an older version of dxmasf.dll from SysWOW64 and drmclien.dll. Once you delete the old dxmasf file (gain ownership of the file) you can use a DirectShow Filter Manager to register the dxmasf.dll.
The music works perfectly after applying this fix! :D

Joe 2018-06-21 -4 points

It says I need to put in the CD, is there a way around this?

Louai 2018-06-10 0 point

@ALITH
This worked -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbNcEiTJvBs

Louai 2018-06-10 0 point

@ALITH:
Experiencing same problem as of today.

alith 2018-06-09 -3 points

cd problem, please help

im gud 2018-04-21 -4 points

how do i mount the game?

Monopoly lover 2018-01-15 0 point

@Sarah, @Sparrow Run it on windows 95 compatibility mode

juanpa 2017-07-28 0 point

thanks a lot!!!!

CarpetFish 2017-06-25 0 point

Yep gutted, no cd error

Moose Yee 2017-06-10 4 points

I think the only way to get this working is to disable the music (start the game, click "Configuration," then "no music.") There are videos and playlists on Youtube with the music for each decade, so you can still have it playing in the background.

Sparrow 2017-06-01 -6 points

I can't get it past the first intro movie - it crashes.
Then I've installed the update - it asks me to insert the CD (Even though I've mounted the monopoly tycoon onto the D drive)

Sarah 2017-05-21 -1 point

Crashing in windows 10, any suggestions?

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Various files to help you run Monopoly Tycoon, apply patches, fixes, maps or miscellaneous utilities.

GuidePrima's Strategy Guide English version 12 MB NocdFor version 1.4 English version 31 KB PatchPatch 1.2 English version 3 MB PatchPatch v1.4 English version 3 MB FixMusic Fix Installer v1.6 English version 721 KB MiscExtras Pack 1
Scenarios and Textures English version 1 MB
MiscExtras Pack 2
Scenarios and Textures English version 2 MB
MiscExtras Pack 3
Scenarios and Textures English version 2 MB
MiscGranite & Marble Texture Pack English version 116 KB MiscBrick & Marble Texture Pack English version 298 KB

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