silent service 2

Trool323 · 12-21-09, 08:46 AM

awww the classics..........

Sailor Steve · 12-21-09, 02:28 PM

I still have my copy of SS1. And the Atari 520ST I played it on, but it's not set up and possibly never will be again.

CTarana · 02-06-10, 05:37 PM

I still have it, used to play on my old XT computer. Bought a addon Soundblaster/Adlib card just for this game! It's still in the box and I just played a game using WinUAE the other day. The Amiga version is just as good as the PC, possibly better!

ChristopherT

Shearwater · 02-06-10, 09:43 PM

Heh a friend of mine gave it to me once. Never figured out how to play it or how to get past the ship recognition screen or what to do there (I was a kid then, and my English wasn't that good back then).
A couple of years later, I bought a copy of it myself (which luckily for me included a manual which told me what I should actually do). Cool game and still one of my favorite subsims.

d@rk51d3 · 02-06-10, 11:53 PM

I never did work out which version the "actual screenshot" on the box came from........... none of the ones I played, anyhow.

Task Force · 02-06-10, 11:58 PM

I remember Silent Service 2... had it for the super nintendo.

utops · 02-07-10, 01:38 PM

One of my favorite game ever...
still remmeber sound track
*pinghhh* *pinghh* *chiptune on*

Pappy55 · 03-12-10, 06:45 AM

My old man used to Hijack my Amiga just for this game back in the day.

He was always on it when I came home from school. So its his fault I am into ww2 sub sims

Commie · 03-12-10, 08:15 AM

He he. Had a good manual, nice and meaty too...Ahh those were the days! Remember scouring the Pacific trying desperately to get the HUGE contact report, and remember the pulse quickening as I raised periscope to see if I finally found the damn Yamato! Always tried to find that 'screenshot' image ingame

CTarana · 03-13-10, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Commie

He he. Had a good manual, nice and meaty too...Ahh those were the days! Always tried to find that 'screenshot' image ingame

I was playing the other day, a single patrol in the Southern Japan area. I got drubbed by a DD after taking out a merchant in a convoy. There was only 1 merchant and about 4 DD's guarding it. My first shot was two at the merchant, the second two were at the lead DD. The last two went to the flank DD. I managed to sink the merchant and the flank DD but two others rolled over me with DC's and started the showers going!

I snuck away after a couple hours. I have noticed that of all the major sub simulators, SS2 is the only one that asks you if you want to go to new construction after every campaign patrol.

Christopher

Captain Nemo · 03-15-10, 05:50 AM

Great game. I have it installed on my Amiga 1200 which I retrieved from the attic recently. Also got it running on the PC through WinUAE. I started with SS1 on the C64 and that got me hooked on sub sims. As I have mentioned before in these forums, the only disappointing aspect of SS2 for me was the lack of land masses in game which SS1 had. But then SS1 didn't have a campaign mode it was just single missions or patrols.

Nemo

CTarana · 03-16-10, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain Nemo

Great game. I have it installed on my Amiga 1200 which I retrieved from the attic recently. Also got it running on the PC through WinUAE.
Nemo

I'm running WinUAE and the ClassicWB and it's driving me crazy!

The programs run great, in some cases better than their old IBM counterparts. It's the handling of the hardfiles that's giving me fits!

ChristopherT

Captain Nemo · 03-17-10, 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by CTarana

I'm running WinUAE and the ClassicWB and it's driving me crazy!

The programs run great, in some cases better than their old IBM counterparts. It's the handling of the hardfiles that's giving me fits!

ChristopherT

I don't bother with hardfiles. With SS2 I just loaded the game into WinUAE using adf's and once up and running on the menu screen did a save state. I just load that save state when I want to play.

Nemo

IanC · 03-17-10, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Task Force

I remember Silent Service 2... had it for the super nintendo.

Silent Service 1 was on the NES. But no Silent Service 2 for the SNES (I wish!). It was probably a dream you had...

Kissaki · 05-21-10, 10:29 PM

Ah, Silent Service 2. That's when I had to guesstimate on bearings and speeds, and getting quite good at it even at ranges upwards of 5000 yards. Nowadays I'm so spoiled with the visual aids of the Silent Hunter games that I feel uncomfortable risking a torpedo on targets more than 2000 yards away.

And how many times I lay still on 300 foot deep with Japanese destroyers circling around my location - and from 300 foot deep I would pick them off, one at a time. Bit of an exploit, using torpedoes that deep, but survival takes precedence. And tonnage.

12-21-09, 08:46 AM	#1
Trool323 Sparky Join Date: May 2007 Location: southwest ohio Posts: 154 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	silent service 2 awww the classics..........

12-21-09, 02:28 PM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I still have my copy of SS1. And the Atari 520ST I played it on, but it's not set up and possibly never will be again. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

02-06-10, 11:58 PM	#6
Task Force Rear Admiral Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SPACE!!!! Posts: 10,142 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	I remember Silent Service 2... had it for the super nintendo. __________________ Task Force industries "Taking control of the world, one mind at a time"

03-12-10, 06:45 AM	#8
Pappy55 Engineer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Birmingham, UK Posts: 211 Downloads: 173 Uploads: 0	My old man used to Hijack my Amiga just for this game back in the day. He was always on it when I came home from school. So its his fault I am into ww2 sub sims __________________

03-15-10, 05:50 AM	#11
Captain Nemo Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: London, England Posts: 1,144 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	Great game. I have it installed on my Amiga 1200 which I retrieved from the attic recently. Also got it running on the PC through WinUAE. I started with SS1 on the C64 and that got me hooked on sub sims. As I have mentioned before in these forums, the only disappointing aspect of SS2 for me was the lack of land masses in game which SS1 had. But then SS1 didn't have a campaign mode it was just single missions or patrols. Nemo __________________ "I'm afraid there is no disguising the fact that King's obsession with the Pacific and the Battle of Washington cost us dear in the Battle of the Atlantic". Sir John Slessor GCB, DSO, MC, DL AOC-in-C Coastal Command RAF ___________________________________________

02-06-10, 05:37 PM	#3
CTarana Bosun Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 68 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	I still have it, used to play on my old XT computer. Bought a addon Soundblaster/Adlib card just for this game! It's still in the box and I just played a game using WinUAE the other day. The Amiga version is just as good as the PC, possibly better! ChristopherT

02-06-10, 09:43 PM	#4
Shearwater Captain Join Date: May 2009 Location: SUBSIM Radio Room (kinda obvious, isn't it) Posts: 522 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 0	Heh a friend of mine gave it to me once. Never figured out how to play it or how to get past the ship recognition screen or what to do there (I was a kid then, and my English wasn't that good back then). A couple of years later, I bought a copy of it myself (which luckily for me included a manual which told me what I should actually do). Cool game and still one of my favorite subsims.

02-06-10, 11:53 PM	#5
d@rk51d3 Sea Lord Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 1,917 Downloads: 193 Uploads: 0	I never did work out which version the "actual screenshot" on the box came from........... none of the ones I played, anyhow.

02-07-10, 01:38 PM	#7
utops Planesman Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Gdańsk,Poland Posts: 197 Downloads: 202 Uploads: 0	One of my favorite game ever... still remmeber sound track pinghhh pinghh chiptune on

03-12-10, 08:15 AM	#9
Commie Machinist's Mate Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 122 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	He he. Had a good manual, nice and meaty too...Ahh those were the days! Remember scouring the Pacific trying desperately to get the HUGE contact report, and remember the pulse quickening as I raised periscope to see if I finally found the damn Yamato! Always tried to find that 'screenshot' image ingame

05-21-10, 10:29 PM	#15
Kissaki Lieutenant Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Norway Posts: 268 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Ah, Silent Service 2. That's when I had to guesstimate on bearings and speeds, and getting quite good at it even at ranges upwards of 5000 yards. Nowadays I'm so spoiled with the visual aids of the Silent Hunter games that I feel uncomfortable risking a torpedo on targets more than 2000 yards away. And how many times I lay still on 300 foot deep with Japanese destroyers circling around my location - and from 300 foot deep I would pick them off, one at a time. Bit of an exploit, using torpedoes that deep, but survival takes precedence. And tonnage.