sc2kfix

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sc2kfix: a plugin for SimCity 2000 Special Edition for Windows 95 that makes it run properly on Windows 7 to 11 and under Wine or Proton, fixes bugs in the original game, adds quality-of-life features, restores missing content, and optionally enables new gameplay features. It’s a single DLL, winmm.dll, copied next to simcity.exe along with the libraries that ship with it. It’s also a reverse engineering project for the engine: many of the game’s internal functions are reimplemented, and the findings are documented in a wiki under CC BY-SA. It fixes palette-cycling animations, which froze on truecolor displays, crashes and corruption in the load and save dialogs, military base growth, rail and highway connections to neighboring cities after loading a save, bond credit ratings, and SCURK on Windows 11 24H2; it restores the intro, the WillTV interviews, and music that never made it into the random playlist, and replaces the original installer, which no longer works. It adds a settings dialog, real-time city growth with seasonal and weather effects, a dark mode for the underground view, a New City dialog with more varied terrain, SimCity 3000-inspired terrain colors, and a map preview, the floating status widget from the Mac and DOS versions, sound rebuilt on SDL3 (MIDI through FluidSynth, MP3, and music and effects volume), higher-quality construction sounds taken from other versions of the game, backups when saving, configurable hotkeys, cheats from other versions, a developer console with Lua, Lua scripts, and DLL mods. Everything that isn’t from the original can be turned off individually. The latest release is Release 11b (August 28). The project, part of the OpenCity Foundation, states that it uses no generative AI and rejects contributions made with it.

You needYour own copy of SimCity 2000 Special Edition for Windows 95 (1996): the SC2K folder from the CD’s WIN95 folder, copied somewhere writable; for the intro and WillTV, the .SMK videos from the CD’s DATA folder in a MOVIES folder. The 1995 CD Collection release is deprecated and no longer gets updates. Plus Windows 7 to 11, or Linux with Wine or Proton, with winmm set to “native, then builtin”.

Type

Mod

Game

SimCity 2000 Special Edition for Windows 95 (PC, 1996)

Platform

Microsoft Windows

Author

araxestroy, af-az, …

Stars

230

Last activity

2026-10-16 · 26 days ago

Latest version

r11b · 2026-08-28

License

MIT

Language

C++

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