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You can edit the files with a basic text editor like notepad. If you go into the game, and look at the issues in a state's info (using a full HQ gives you a longer list), you should see how Democrats, Independents, and Republicans feel about each issue. If it's got the green thumbs up, then you want to make a positive number, and if it has a red thumbs down, you want to make a negative number. A yellow fist means around zero. Remember that adding t

Here's a list of some of the special traits you might want to have for your candidate. Positive numbers mean support, negative numbers mean opposition. Have fun! //Special Traits--------------------- ANWR BIGGOVERNMENT CHINA_TRADE CIVILRIGHTS ECORECOVERY ENVIRONMENT EQOPPORTUNITY EQRESULTS FARMSUBSID FOREIGNAID FREEDOMOFSPEECH

I use an image size of 212x256 which seems like the maximum. If anyone wants to try pushing the width more, they can see what the results are, but the height over 256 will cause graphical errors. It's really ugly, but you can see for yourself. If you want to removed cached versions of images, in your "Gfx" folder is a bunch of ".DDS" files, where you can delete your candidates cached image. This helps when you want to modify the image. Als

Reply #2 By: Citizen korweill - 8/21/2004 8:18:57 AM I had this problem also. I have it no more since Jake sent me a link to download a nocd patch for version 1.01. The game starts up fine now. That would be good, but I hope the problem will be solved, to avoid it in the future. It can be fustratin

I tried the Political Machine 1.01 update, but that changed nothing. This is the message I get: Cannot locate the CD-ROM CD/DVD emulation software has been detected. Please disable all CD/DVD emulation software and re-start the game This is my system information: Pentium III 866 MHz 512 MB SD-RAM Windows ME 4.90.3000 NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4400 AGP 64 MB SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-240B 40X CREATIVE