Shadow President

[ShadowPres]

Is there no way to edit a couple files for the game? maybe changing names of things, or editing ideologies. (I mean they all have letters next to them so it would make sense that these letters are editable in some file (s).

This would be brilliant, i used to muck about with alot of DOS games, a cursory glance at the files though they don't seem to be simple text documents easily edited, I looked at about 6 or 7 likely named files, they are either indecipherable gibberish or are only for text so I guess you can change some of what is said, menu text, country names etc. but none of the actual gameplay.

[Al-Ibrahim]

It'd be nice if this game simulated the breakup of the USSR considering the effects it had in world politics. Then again, this came out in 1993 for DOS, so probably a bit too complicated. Also, have you guys noticed that you can make Puerto Rico independent? (It starts off as a puppet state, or at least has the same status as if you conquered a nation, and you can revoke that status to make it free)

Another thing I disliked (that its sequel actually made slightly worse due to waiting) is that information isn't centralized. It should all be in one menu with dropdown things and such.

Also, what's with the Iraq-Saudi Neutral Zone being its own 'country'? Why not just have it as an unclickable... thing? It's odd when you hear news of riots in it and such. Not to mention that it came to an end in 1991.

[TrueRebel]

I love this game! I nuke everything, and it rocks. I nuked France for saying they don't like me.

I couldn't stop laughing after reading this one. Boy, you must be crazy :laugh:

[Fubb]

Erm, how do I contact the U.N? Cause I was only ever able to contact them after Iraq Invades Kuwait (which rarely happens for me, btw, cause i usually get good relations with Iraq and stop them from doing it)

Also, WHY HAS'NT ANYONE MADE A FAN-MADE REMAKE OF THIS GAME?

Think of it, we could add so much stuff, like, instead of nuking a country, you'd see the missile appear on your radar thingie, and see it's trajectory heading and stuff and where it'll land so you can prepare yourself. I was royal pissed when Israel attacked me, even after I help them hold off Syria in the year 1993. dont ask, but I was fooling around with them :p

If i saw the nuke appear, i'd be like "Oi what the hell man?" and nuke them back just as fast :) and also try to shoot down the nuke flying to me (if such technology existed in the 90's that is)

Also, Peacekeeping would be a nice factor to add to the game. I would send peace keepers into Israel and Ethopia and Sudan and stuff like that :)

[WilliamC23]

I remember one time I played this the USSR nuked Japan for no apparent reason, no one retaliated with nukes but the USSR became incredibly unstable and they had like 3 assassinations and nfteen coups.

[fettoswe]

Shadow president must be one the of the greatest simulator games ever. I can play it for hours and never get tired of it. I even have the sequel "cyber judas" it has little better graphics but it's kinda slow compared to shadow president. In cyber judas you can only skip time 2 hours per second. In shadow you can skip one day per second. :max:

[WilliamC23]

Shadow president must be one the of the greatest simulator games ever. I can play it for hours and never get tired of it. I even have the sequel "cyber judas" it has little better graphics but it's kinda slow compared to shadow president. In cyber judas you can only skip time 2 hours per second. In shadow you can skip one day per second. :max:

I bought CyberJudas. I enjoy the "traitor" aspect of that game.

[fettoswe]

I bought CyberJudas. I enjoy the "traitor" aspect of that game.
Yeah I enjoyed it to but i can only play it in Vmware and it's pretty slow.:oh:

[Fubb]

I want Cyber Judas, but it's not abandonware yet :p And i dont like buyign things off the net...

ANYWAYS no one answered my question, is there a way to contact the U.N whenever you want? Cause im only able to contact them when Iraq invades Kuwait. I don't like launchign desert storm, I always have so many casualties.

[fettoswe]

I want Cyber Judas, but it's not abandonware yet :p And i dont like buyign things off the net...

ANYWAYS no one answered my question, is there a way to contact the U.N whenever you want? Cause im only able to contact them when Iraq invades Kuwait. I don't like launchign desert storm, I always have so many casualties.
Well it's to bad it's nearly impossible to find if you don't buy on the net.

I don't think there is another way to contact the UN. You can only contact them if another country invades/attackes you or another country. I like experiment sometimes and have been able to get canada and mexico to attack me. I did just by blocking trade with them and make some surgical strikes.:whistling:

[Fubb]

I wasn't alloud to contact the U.N when Argentina invaded the Falk Land islands from the brits...

Coarse I invaded it back right after, and stockpiled troops on it (around 10,000) right after, just to have men in the theater so I could try to be ready for a war against Argentina. They attacked the islands 2 days later, and 7000 casualties for them later and 4000 for mine, we had peace.

Is there a way to make 2 countries (say France and Britain) go to war with each other?

[fettoswe]

I wasn't alloud to contact the U.N when Argentina invaded the Falk Land islands from the brits...

Coarse I invaded it back right after, and stockpiled troops on it (around 10,000) right after, just to have men in the theater so I could try to be ready for a war against Argentina. They attacked the islands 2 days later, and 7000 casualties for them later and 4000 for mine, we had peace.

Is there a way to make 2 countries (say France and Britain) go to war with each other?

I have never tried to do that but I can experiment. It can proberly be done if you raise presuare the countrys enough. I know it possible to make france hit england with a nuclear strike.

[Fubb]

one last question

CIA things like assassinations, coups, and sellign arms to rebels never work for me (well, selling arms to rebels works occasionaly..)

The only time assassinations have worked for me is when im at war with the given country, and im yet to have the coup d'et work no matter what :(

[WilliamC23]

Yeah I enjoyed it to but i can only play it in Vmware and it's pretty slow.:oh:
I've played it in DOSbox.

[fettoswe]

one last question

CIA things like assassinations, coups, and sellign arms to rebels never work for me (well, selling arms to rebels works occasionaly..)

The only time assassinations have worked for me is when im at war with the given country, and im yet to have the coup d'et work no matter what :(

It works sometimes for me you need to have your "president effectnives" high. Try o assassinate the great britain in the beginning of the game it almost always works for me.

[Fubb]

But Great Britains my friend :( Im trying to demolish communism (I want to assassinate leader of China and the Soviet Union (Even though China and Soviets arn't even friends)

[fettoswe]

I have played many hours shadow president and have only succeded assainate the leader of russian maybe two or three times it's proberly because they are on their guard. :notrust:

[Fubb]

Well after the Soviet Union becomes Russia, I won't try to assassinate them, cause ill be lake 'Hey man!'

But i'll still go after China

[fettoswe]

I would go for soviet first then china. Raise your military budget so you get about 5 million soldiers then attack. Many many lifes will be sacrificed but you will proberly win easily.:thumbs:

[polarcheese]

ive got the text file of the quotes, where can I upload it?

[The Fifth Horseman]

Um, perhaps first you could explain to us... what quotes?

[polarcheese]

the ones for the copy protection questions

[DoomYoshi]

Not only is the game cracked, making those unnecessary but they are included when you download the game. Thanks anyways.

[Fubb]

Um, occasionaly when I ask a country to increase there nuclear or military spedning or ask to make an investment, they say "You first"

How do i increase my spending in those fields? I mean, I gotta get ready for the economy war...it is coming for me, it's 1993 and everythings slowly going downhill!

[angry axe]

lol O.K game but the logic is a bit thwarted, e.g Iraq invades quwait wins and im not allowed to even do a little surgical strike without getting condemned? but anyway every country that condemns me brings me a few nukes closer to being a "nuclear free nation" if you catch my drift. :thumbs:

[Fubb]

lol O.K game but the logic is a bit thwarted, e.g Iraq invades quwait wins and im not allowed to even do a little surgical strike without getting condemned? but anyway every country that condemns me brings me a few nukes closer to being a "nuclear free nation" if you catch my drift. :thumbs:

:nuke: Im preparing my Fallout Shelter as we speak.

Yor nation always hates surgical strikes, as do all the others, though it's a good way to make another country attack you..

Its spelled Kuwait.

Also, why did my popularity go down from 56% to 25% after I initiated desert storm on August 5th (i waited a couple days to see how Kuwait was doing on its own. Iraq didn't heed to my U.N requests.

[DoomYoshi]

^^This game was made by hippies!

I recently decided to nuke Brazil because it was not on any of the hot spots lists. China nuked me in response. Soviet Union then allied with me and nuked China. World Population after a few years of this... 2 billion. This game is awesome.

[Fubb]

Does anyone know how to win a war quickly? Desert Storm always costs me allot of men and popularity, even with other nations helping me

In other news, Argentinan Forces have been pushed off of the Falk Land islands for the second time in only 5 years! Yay! U.S suffered 143 casualties.

And in other other news, Some little island in the Pacific fell to american forcces for only 50 deaths.

Im on the war path :D

[laiocfar]

Defensive wars normally are cheaper and popular. The problem is that you can make 1000 preventive deployments for free.

[Fubb]

No i want to know how to win a war faster, and easier

[dtsmith1984]

Someone mentioned before about putting troops in Iraq after winning the war to occupy. How is this done? Even during the war I cannot put troops in Iraq it always tells me Turkey or Saudi Arabia or Kuwait is willing to accept your troops.

And then even after Iraq surrenders, they are not friendly and I can still not put troops in the country.

Is there a way to take over countries where you have control of them? or atleast make them friendly towards the US and accept troops?

[Oh I wish...]

Is Cyberjudas still not available for Download?

[arete]

It's available. Click on the "Download this Game!" tab in the upper left corner of your screen, under the game info. :)

[TheChosen]

He's talking about a whole different game Arete.

[enrell]

anyone managed to recruit new advisors after the prev died/resigned??

[Fubb]

Enrell I dont think you can.

Arete Cyberjudas is the sequel to Shadow President that i want to play but its still sold.

Or somefin.

NOW MY PROBLEM

WTF On my new pc it wont play, i open it and when the tutorial starts and i press esc to exit it, it just locks up and does nothing. Grrr, what do I do?

EDIT: Also, If I do get Shadow President to work, what course should I take? I want Cuba out by 1992, but cant invade it because of the Soviets, so is there a way to bring the Soviet Union down faster? I want a Capitalist-style goverment in Cubas place, because I dont want Russia or something aiding there nuclear spendings.

Also Is there a way to persuade Russia to lower Troop garrisons in N. Korea if I do the same in South Korea? I want military tensions in the area low while i provide South Korea and Japan with nuclear spending aid.

one last question: Last time i was playing before my pc died, China was going to invade Taiwan, but Taiwan wouldn't let me place troops on there island, is there a way to make them? Because polotic and stuff doesn't seem to work.

Thats all for now.

your possible next President of the (shadow) United States of America.

VOTE FUBB!

EDITEDIT: Also to occupy a country sort of, you need to first deploy troops in there. They only let you deploy troops if they LIKE YA, and getting them to LIKE YA is hard.

Though I once had 50,000 troops based in China :D which was communist so that was sorta big. Also helped when India invaded burma in roughly...1995 or so when everything started to slide. I was trying to make the Commie goverments happy, OK?

Also i noticed that budgets are...holy CRAP

How can i get my budget up to +1 billion so on, and put my economic growth rate up? I thought strengthening economic ties would work, but...yea.

Also anyone ever notice how if your friends areas (e.g Falk Land islands which belong to England and were invaded by Argentina in 1982 and again in SP in 1990-1991 for me) are invaded and you invade them back, you gain a ton of popularity?

[Fubb]

^PLEASE pay attention to my question up thee....^

Also another question. If you have troops, say in Albania, and theres terrorism/insurgency in that country, can some troops die in the cross fire? That'd sorta simulate a "War on terror" sorta deal, that'd be a neat simulation experience.

Also, time for "Strategy corner" with your host, Fubb.

Islands. Islands in the pacific, carribean, atlantic! Islands are helpful, because it counts you as having troops in "a region" and inturn those troops can help out in any sort of armed conflict. It's always safe to keep a garrison of 1000-5000 troops on an island. An example of where this comes in handy, would be while I was playing one time. I had a garrison of 1000 troops on the Falk Land islands which belonged to england. That didn't stop Argentinan forces from invading the island though! Oh no. An Argentinan expeditionary force landed on the island in hopes of capturing it, but when they ran into 1000 american troops, they turned tail and ran! Minimal casualties for us, heavy for them. Island garrison came in handy.

That was "Strategy Corner" *que soft piano music*

[TheSurgeon]

Sorry for posting on the wrong thread.

I can't seem to be able to run this game. Every time - DOSbox or not - it gives me "file not found' and blocks out.

Is the problem with me or in the game?

[devilisme]

@TheSurgeon: it runs fine with me using DosBox 0.72.. i ran the shadow.exe..

[zirkoni]

Sorry for posting on the wrong thread.

I can't seem to be able to run this game. Every time - DOSbox or not - it gives me "file not found' and blocks out.

Is the problem with me or in the game?
Maybe you should try re-downloading the game.

[TheSurgeon]

Yep, thx, that fixed the problem. :)

The game looks fascinatingly interesting. I only have to find out how it works now (lol).

I've gotten the hang of it I think, except for foreign aid. I still haven't figured out the "demand" & "recommend" and how to distribute it (they recommend me to send 2.4 aid to Pakistan, and I'm already sending 32?).

[MaxStone]

Any advice on what to do? I'm pretty lost at the beginning of the game, having totally insufficient foreign aid to send to Israel, Turkey, Pakistan and the Philippines.

Also, can the time be sped up and slowed down?

[El Quia]

on the Falk Land islands which belonged to england.


The Malvinas are Argentines! ;)

The Malvinas/Falklands issue is a touchy subject for us Argentinians, ho. And the war was a bloody propaganda effort from the thrice damned assassins, torturers and despicable military dictators that ruled Argentina at the time. Fortunately, we lost that war: that finished to weaken the little support they had, speeding the return of democracy to my country. But it also leaved us with a generation of "colimbas" (conscripts. At the time, we had compulsory conscription) scarred for life and a shamefull history of abandoned veterans.

But this has nothing to do with the game. Sorry for the digression.

[Budgeteer]

Does anyone know how the budget works and are there any advices?

I always seem to get my leadership incredibly low and keep falling in popularity, until I get angry and nuke my enemies. Any advices?

[zx08zx]

hey all i have windows xp and i get to where i enter the question to get on the game it takes it goes to next screen and freezes this is me favorite game can ne one plz help i have tried running in windos and cmd

[zirkoni]

Use DOSBox (http://www.dosbox.com/)!!!

[zx08zx]

Use DOSBox (http://www.dosbox.com/)!!!

I TRIED dosbox it starts playing the music for like 5 seconds then stops and freezes on the screen saying shadow president w the eye on it
if could help me my msn msg is [EDITEd]

plz help ty
bin trying for 2 hours

[zx08zx]

ok ty for the help i got to work and not freeze but i caint move me mouse it sits in spot and shakes when i try to move it in dosbox anyone know how to fix this?

[zx08zx]

hey all i have win xp and seems to be several problems w doxbox and xp. so i looking for games simular to shadow president that xp can run? any of u konw if there any games very simular to shadow president? ty all

[Narnyay]

hi i love this game, been playing it since 1993.

i'm wondering has there ever been other scenarios released for the game besides the few that come with it?

could anyone edit the game and create their own scenario? Perhaps maybe a 2009 scenario or being able to play as another country? This game has so much potential but it deserves more. How cool would it be to play as Iraq and trying to invade nearby countries or play as north korea and develop a nuclear program or becoming more peaceful with other countries and raising the standard of living?

[Al-Ibrahim]

The game was clearly made for only the US to be playable and for all actions, etc. to be based on playing as the US. If somehow an editing god managed to make, say, Saudi Arabia or something playable, the game would probably be very unstable.

[WilliamC23]

It seems to me that technology level has absolutely no impact over the success of the troops. I've had massive casualties against any backward nation. On top of that it seems that any war is unpopular, even if necessary.

[NotLoggedInSurgeon]

Everyone keeps telling me the sequel is a lot better, just I can't seem to find it anywhere on the net.

Any hand?

[TotalAnarchy]

Everyone keeps telling me the sequel is a lot better, just I can't seem to find it anywhere on the net.

Any hand?

Maybe it's because you're searching the wrong name. Try CyberJudas (http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/cyberjudas)

[NotLoggedIn]

Maybe it's because you're searching the wrong name. Try CyberJudas (http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/cyberjudas)

Nope, I've looked it using the correct names.

There really isn't any place to download it. Does anyone on Abandonia perhaps possess it?

[Luchsen]

Take it (http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=20858) while it's fresh. :max:

[Fubb]

time to try the sequel out :clap:

[Surgeon]

Ah, just when I thought I got it! :no:

I managed to download all files except for CJ.r01. If I am not mistaken, it seems that piece has a broken upload. I've tried downloading it both through a downloader softwer and "manually", and every single time it stops at 18%.

So close this time... :sick:

[Luchsen]

Does work for me. :oh:

[Surgeon]

Does work for me. :oh:

It must be with my router then again.

I use the download for continued download, because ordinary downloads constantly keep cracking for me, and surprisingly, always at the very same place they cracked the first time.

However, according to the big red NO, the website doesn't support continuous downloads, so that means there's no chance for me to download it from that link. :no:

[TotalAnarchy]

It must be with my router then again.

I use the download for continued download, because ordinary downloads constantly keep cracking for me, and surprisingly, always at the very same place they cracked the first time.

However, according to the big red NO, the website doesn't support continuous downloads, so that means there's no chance for me to download it from that link. :no:

Delete your temporary files and download again.

[Surgeon]

Delete your temporary files and download again.

I've tried. It still stops and always at 18% or 33%. At 3 computers.

The only option is if there were an alternative link (uploaded again). 2 games were sent to me that way by one forum member using sendspace. If someone had the enough time to do so...

[CaptainWill]

I'm guessing the link posted on the last page has expired? If so then that's some bad luck because I've been looking for that game forever. :mhh:

[CaptainWill]

Sorry, just realised what I'd done wrong. Apologies.

[AnHero]

When I first start the game, I notice the budget is in deficit (i.e in the minus range), and no matter what I did to resolve it, it either chewed up my popular support or GDP.

Is there any other way to add earnings instead of raising taxes/tariffs?. Thanks in advance.

It's a pretty realistic game, I might add. Now I know why Presidents tend to sprout the greys a whole lot faster than normal.

[Racing Fanatic]

I think I can confirm that the game breaks if you mess with the status quo...

After blasting Iraq so badly with surgical strikes that they couldn't strike ANYONE (ambition went down to 2 for some reason), I noticed my police state rating had shot through the roof. I spent the rest of my first year trying to fix that.

Only to notice at the start of the next year that France, South Korea, and Germany had allied with the USSR. "What the hell?," methinks.

Then I look at the ideologies. The Soviet Union? Developing Capitalism.

That's... going to be interesting to deal with...

[Unregistered Guest]

Hi, when I downloaded Shadow President and went to unzip the file I got screensavers but not the actual game. There is no game on the download just screensavers. Can someone help me?

Thank you.

[Lulu_Jane]

I just downloaded the archive and checked for you, it was fine. Perhaps you should try downloading it again, also I suggest you read our DOSbox (http://www.abandonia.com/node/23854) tutorial :)

EDIT: I just tried running this under windows like the review suggests and it tends to hang during the title screen. Perhaps this is the problem you're referring to? The game seemed to run fine using VDMSound though, so I recommend using that.

[Unregistered Guest]

I just downloaded the archive and checked for you, it was fine. Perhaps you should try downloading it again, also I suggest you read our DOSbox (http://www.abandonia.com/node/23854) tutorial :)

EDIT: I just tried running this under windows like the review suggests and it tends to hang during the title screen. Perhaps this is the problem you're referring to? The game seemed to run fine using VDMSound though, so I recommend using that.

First, thank you. It is nice to know someone will respond.

Ok, I have DOSbox and I have downloaded other games before here. But when I go to unzip Shadow President it says, "Install screen saver from Shadow President.zip." I had the same problem with King of Chicago. For example I get this list from Shadow President:

elecan.scr
eleccut.scr
election.scr
etc, etc (the list is long)

This does not happen to me with most games. Most of the games run fine but with this one all I get are screensavers. It is very weird.

[The Fifth Horseman]

*cough*
Not screensavers. Game data. The SCR extension is a coincidence. Just unpack everything in the game directory and use the DIR *.exe command in DOS to find the actual executable.

[Lulu_Jane]

If you still have a problem I recommend you ask your question in the Troubleshooting (http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/forumdisplay.php?f=11) section of the forum, and someone much more clever than me will definitely help sort you out :)

EDIT: And there you have it, someone much more clever than me got there first :D

[Unregistered Guest]

*cough*
Not screensavers. Game data. The SCR extension is a coincidence. Just unpack everything in the game directory and use the DIR *.exe command in DOS to find the actual executable.

See... that makes sense but my WinZip is telling me they are screensavers. I can’t download them all at once but one at a time and when I do it just tries to put it in as a screensaver. The WinZip even gives a long speech about how to deal with multiple screensaver files. Haha!

So how can I unpack everything in the game directory if it does not even recognize it as a game? Normally, WinZip says. “unzip or install from “title of game.zip” but that is not the case here. Again, same with the game King of Chicago. To be clear, I have to unzip the file if I want to unpack the game right?

[Unregistered Guest]

Fifth Horseman, I forgot you can open the zip file without unzipping... anyways I got what you are saying I think.

Thanks for the help everyone!

[UntouchableJ]

I cant figure out why my (public reaction to budget) keeps plucking away at my popularity and no matter what I do the public reaction always is negative to the budget(well it usually starts after a year)
income:1619
spending:1616
gnp growth:3.2%
proj:3.5

popularity:45.1%
proj:12.2
tax
pers:15.0
corp:44.0
sales:6.8
tariff:4.0

no matter what i change the people have a "negative reaction" to the budget:doh2:

[UntouchableJ]

nvrmind I know now :P..but does anyone know how I can increase nuclear & military spending in my own country? my defense budget is high(700 billion) but both of those are low and nuclear spending is zero

[AnHero]

I've written a rudimentary playing guide on gamefaqs.

If anyone has any questions/comments, please feel free to ask.

[arete]

Nice. Tks very much ^_^

[Cycieties]

Here's a way to cheat in Shadow President: save often and reload when you don't get a desired result. I haven't tried it but in theory you can befriend all of the hostile nations by reloading until they accept your social action(s). Sometimes though two actions will cluster together so it's best to cancel the second action and retry it if the first action is successful.

[Cycieties]

Oh and I managed to get Iraq notr to invade Kuwait by surgical striking 'em while they were doing their big build-up to invade Kuwait. Helps to have at least 500,000 troops in Kuwait and/or Saudi-Iraqi Neutral Zone.

[Surgeon]

Someone had posted CyberJudas, but it's not in the ISO Cellar, nor anywhere.

[TotalAnarchy]

Check again. I see it now. I don't think someone moved it though, so maybe you didn't check well enough :mhh:

[spain]

Does anyone know how to increase the amount of troops you have?
I still don't know how to do that.

[Fubb]

Helpful guide;

http://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/583416-shadow-president/faqs/58316

[Pinsel]

It would have been a great game if it didn't have that "quality of life" bug (Cyber Judas has that same bug) and an even greater game if you could play other countries like China or Russia.
Ah well, maybe somebody will mod someday it and fix it.

[Cycieties]

I'd mod it if I had the tools.

[vassago77379]

I see allot of people in here questioning how to play full out ballistic style without recourse from civil unrest... When I originally had this game I found it is easiest to in your first turn, change your government to if i remember correctly a military dictatorship, or like a monarchy, something to where your citizens could no longer influence your reign. From there I relegated all of my funds into the creation of 1) the world's most devastating nukes and 2) the world's most extreme badass soldiers... Just research the technologies til all of their equipment is absurdly huge... I was France and had 3,000 'Le Douche' soldiers that could wipe 50,000-100,000 normal soldiers out while barely losing anyone.

I also successfully took over every single country in the world until the game broke down on itself and basically melted down... it would not even load after that.

[Spain]

I was looking through the files for shadow president and I noticed a file that included a list of the ideolgys in the game. In the file, there were some goverment types that I have never seen. They are: Environment and Fascism. Has any one ever encountered these in the game?

[Al-Ibrahim]

I was looking through the files for shadow president and I noticed a file that included a list of the ideolgys in the game. In the file, there were some goverment types that I have never seen. They are: Environment and Fascism. Has any one ever encountered these in the game?Maybe a hyper-militarized dictatorship can become Fascist, and I'd imagine Centralism is its more moderate brother. I don't know what "Environment" is meant to signify, though. Maybe it's not actually an ideology at all, and is just a tag to signify landmass in code language or something not meant to be seen by actual players.

[cary123]

I see allot of people in here questioning how to play full out ballistic style without recourse from civil unrest... When I originally had this game I found it is easiest to in your first turn, change your government to if i remember correctly a military dictatorship, or like a monarchy, something to where your citizens could no longer influence your reign. From there I relegated all of my funds into the creation of 1) the world's most devastating nukes and 2) the world's most extreme badass soldiers... Just research the technologies til all of their equipment is absurdly huge... I was France and had 3,000 'Le Douche' soldiers that could wipe 50,000-100,000 normal soldiers out while barely losing anyone.

I also successfully took over every single country in the world until the game broke down on itself and basically melted down... it would not even load after that.
How do you make your nation a dictatorship?

[_r.u.s.s.]

you play them twilight 24/7 on every tv station

[Drep]

So, I need some technical help with CyberJudas. I have an installation of the game, but I've tried it on three computers to no avail. I've tried it in DOSBox on two computers, and on a Windows 3.1 machine. I can run the installer from the CD fine, but anytime I run the actual exe, the game doesn't start. I get some text in the command prompt saying "CYBERJUDAS v1.0" and then the game doesn't start. I have also run the patch, but it doesn't do anything. Anyone else have these problems?

[dosraider]

http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=1516&letter=S
Works perfectly when we put it at 5000 cycles with 63 memsize[Edit]
Maybe I should add that I'm not the one confused here, after all this topic is about Shadow President, so I'm spot on, Drep is the confounded one. ... Just saying. :p

[Drep]

I only chose CyberJudas because this thread seems to be the only place where I can find people talking about Shadow President, and it had a link to a download of CyberJudas too. I figure if there's anyone who has experience with CyberJudas, they would be here.

[Al-Ibrahim]

CyberJudas is semi-disappointing. It's a lot slower (IIRC only like 2 hours per second or something like that) and has some noticeable bugs, like Cuban trade being regulated rather than restricted—even though it was restricted in Shadow President, and the weird bug of the Ukraine having a whopping $1 GDP per capita. Then there's the fact that it's basically Shadow President 1.5 rather than a fullblown sequel. I have a feeling it was rushed.

The best thing is that the city view is a lot more useful, since you can click on the quadrants for statistics.

[ryacku]

As president, your responsibility is to find peaceful alternatives to war, whether America is directly involved or not. However, there are times when you must decide to make a show of force in order to get the other countries to listen to you. If a power-hungry country threatens to invade a peaceful country, you can put pressure on the aggressors by establishing a military presence in the victim and neighboring countries. You can also dissuade the enemy country by cutting or eliminating trade, making it more difficult and expensive for the country to start a war. Just because the country declares war doesn't mean there will be bloodshed. You can file complaints with the UN, demand global sanctions against that country, and try to form a coalition to oppose them. You can even send the CIA to give arms to rebels in the country, initiate a coup d'etat to overthrow the government (hopefully a better one will replace it), or assassinate the leader. If all else fails, you'll have to fight. Hopefully, you can stop the country before it gains nuclear warhead capabilities and decides to try it out.

What? How do you form a coalition against a country? The most that nations have done when it comes to overseas deployments is do some bizzare build up with nonexistent troops.

I even attached some rather funny moments in Shadow President.

[Moleman]

I've been playing this game religiously for the last few days and a have a couple questions.

-How do you make a country allied with you enough to allow troops to be stationed in their country? This would be especially helpful for invading Libya since there are no nations surround that are willing to hold troops and the closest I can get is Israel if I go through Egypt or Tunisia if I go through Italy. Problem is the only way to invade Libya is to invade either Tunisia or Eqypt first which are friendly towards me. There's another way by going through both Morroco and Algeria via Spain so I'm not invading any friendly nations but I just think it would be so much easier if I could just get in good enough relations with Egypt or Tunisia. I've tried "improving diplomatic relations" and a few other positive actions dozens of times with each for months in game but the status never seems to change.

-How do I access Guam? If I'm in the Philippians or Papa New Guinea and I enter the war room I can see that I have 8,000 troops in Guam. Problem is I can't click on Guam and I've even looked it up on a map to make sure I'm at the right area. Even when I full screen the game on a 1920x1080 monitor It's still too small to click. There's got to be a way in there or else why include the troops as part of the game? I can only see a use if you wanted to invade the Philippians or Papa New Guinea for some reason.

That's all I got and thanks to those who have answered other people's questions, they've helped me out as well.

[Cycieties]

I've been playing this game religiously for the last few days and a have a couple questions.

-How do you make a country allied with you enough to allow troops to be stationed in their country? This would be especially helpful for invading Libya since there are no nations surround that are willing to hold troops and the closest I can get is Israel if I go through Egypt or Tunisia if I go through Italy. Problem is the only way to invade Libya is to invade either Tunisia or Eqypt first which are friendly towards me. There's another way by going through both Morroco and Algeria via Spain so I'm not invading any friendly nations but I just think it would be so much easier if I could just get in good enough relations with Egypt or Tunisia. I've tried "improving diplomatic relations" and a few other positive actions dozens of times with each for months in game but the status never seems to change.

-How do I access Guam? If I'm in the Philippians or Papa New Guinea and I enter the war room I can see that I have 8,000 troops in Guam. Problem is I can't click on Guam and I've even looked it up on a map to make sure I'm at the right area. Even when I full screen the game on a 1920x1080 monitor It's still too small to click. There's got to be a way in there or else why include the troops as part of the game? I can only see a use if you wanted to invade the Philippians or Papa New Guinea for some reason.

That's all I got and thanks to those who have answered other people's questions, they've helped me out as well.

Instead of just doing diplomatic actions every month, you can spam-command it. You could also always invade or coup so that they will like you if they are an enemy ideology. Foreign aid helps a bit too.

Unfortunately I don't think anyone can get to Guam as I've tried all of the adjacent nations...even hundreds of miles away. It's just too freaking small.

[Surgeon]

So, I need some technical help with CyberJudas. I have an installation of the game, but I've tried it on three computers to no avail. I've tried it in DOSBox on two computers, and on a Windows 3.1 machine. I can run the installer from the CD fine, but anytime I run the actual exe, the game doesn't start. I get some text in the command prompt saying "CYBERJUDAS v1.0" and then the game doesn't start. I have also run the patch, but it doesn't do anything. Anyone else have these problems?

Yeah, I've got the same problem.

Putting it to 5000 cycles and 63 memsize, however, does not remove the problem.

[desertranger16]

Instead of just doing diplomatic actions every month, you can spam-command it. You could also always invade or coup so that they will like you if they are an enemy ideology. Foreign aid helps a bit too.

Unfortunately I don't think anyone can get to Guam as I've tried all of the adjacent nations...even hundreds of miles away. It's just too freaking small.

Excellent, something I can help with! :D I started playing Shadow President back in '94, got it in a bulk pack of games at Wal-Mart I think, and it's always been one of my favorites. Anyway, at any point in the game you can hit / (or ?) and it will bring up a box that has all countries alphabetically available for selection. To find Guam you would-
1. Press /
2. Press G (this will bring up Gabon)
3. Press the down key until you come across Guam
4. Hit enter, selecting Guam
5. Profit

If you have any other questions about Shadow President, I can probably answer them, just give me a shout.

[forgot my UN]

for some reason i cant get SP to work in dosbox, i got it to work once or twice on xp but i dont know how (i know i used dosbox) i downloaded form hotud.org but when i load it the mouse click doesnt register i can press esc to skip the tutorial and move the mouse but clicking the mouse does nothing, any1 know whats wrong?

[Cycieties (not logged in)]

for some reason i cant get SP to work in dosbox, i got it to work once or twice on xp but i dont know how (i know i used dosbox) i downloaded form hotud.org but when i load it the mouse click doesnt register i can press esc to skip the tutorial and move the mouse but clicking the mouse does nothing, any1 know whats wrong?

I suggest redownloading from Abandonia since it's a far more reliable site and its dl may not have the problems in your download.

[lonefox]

does anyone know how to speed up time in this game. i seem several references to it but no instructions.
Any help?

[Al-Ibrahim]

does anyone know how to speed up time in this game. i seem several references to it but no instructions.
Any help?Just press number keys on the keyboard. 5 is for fastest.

[Experiment632]

Timeline for World War III

November 1990: (A)Soviet Union Condemns China (B)China Condemns USSR. (C): Soviet Union attempts to sabotage Chinese economy. (D) USA opens Diplomatic Channels with China and is allowed to deploy troops, staving off potential Sino-Soviet conflict that likely would have gone nuclear.

December 1990: (A)Chinese Communism proves over past month to be compatible with Western Capitalism. By the time negotiations are concluded, Chinese stats are; 1.0000 on police state, 1.0000 on ambition, 6.0000 on ethic, 6.0000 on peace, etc. (B)Statements of Condemnation from both China and United States cripples Soviet leadership ability to get anything done.

March 1991: United States blocks all trade with the Soviet Union.

April 14, 1991: World War III begins. I staged a four-pronged invasion of the Soviet Union from Norway, Turkey, China, and Japan. Norway and Iceland sent troops to assist. Sadly China remained neutral in conflict. Since the Soviet Union was no longer a member of the Soviet Union World Team Alliance thanks to the coup, North Korea and its nearly one million strong remained neutral in the conflict. My polls drop to 53%

April 25, 1991: Over half the Red Army is beaten. The Soviet Union refuses to surrender. My polls drop to 35%

May 4, 1991: Most of the Red Army is gone. Only 900,000 remain. My popularity is down to 25%. I demand the Soviet Union's surrender: They comply. My polls shoots up to 65% and doesn't drop again. The Soviet Union is occupied by the United States and ideology is set to Capitalism

Currently I have saved the game and am taking a break. Overall Plan for Soviet Union: (A)1.0000 on police state, 1.0000 on ambition, 6.0000 on ethic, 6.0000 on peace, Quality of Life at least 75%, etc. (B)Maintain an occupation force until no earlier then the start of 1992 when the Soviet Union's official stats should be officially reset to friendly. At that time they should be ready for a return to sovereignty.

[Experiment632]

Possible Bug?: My available troop level has reached zero. However I was still somehow able to place slightly over 2 million troops into multiple territories. The troop increase did slow after reaching zero available but still went up. I had an average of 1.5 million EACH in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Norway, Japan, South Korea, and China. And the numbers still kept going up.

Also what is up with Chinese Communism being compatible with Western Capitalism unlike Communism elsewhere? Could it have something to do with the fact they are part of the Soviet Union World Team Alliance?

Also... is it possible to edit the game so the United States is communist and part of the Soviet Union World Team Alliance?

[Experiment632]

Conflict list in my current game, as well as post-war popularity polls.

Cuban War July-August 1990: Cuban Defeat Polls up to 60%

World War III March 24-May 2 1991: Soviet Defeat Polls up to 70%

2nd Korean War May 7-May 9 1991: N. Korea Defeat Polls up to 78% (N. Korea already lost 80% of its military during WWIII so US reinforcements weren't needed in S. Korea. S. Korea as the larger force took control of the north)

Operation Desert Storm: June 13, 1991: Iraq beaten Polls up to 99%.

[experiment 632]

Well this is something totally new to me. The United States World Team Alliance is THE only WTA in existence right now so 1993 will be a pretty quiet year with the US more powerful then OTL. With Communism pretty much destroyed in World War Three, it seems Nationalists are considered to be at odds with Capitalists. I am thinking a possible new Cold War with USA Versus India once India upgrades to Super Power status.

India has been increasing militarily and at anytime they could start constructing nuclear weapons. Have you reached a point in the game in which India starts building it nuclear arsenal?

Anticipated India WTA membership:
India, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Algeria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and a few other countries.

In order to prevent a possible threat Indian Threat close to American soil, I decided to take preemptive action by toppling the Nationalist Government in Mexico. First I killed Mexican nuclear spending with a surgical strike followed by a ground invasion which last 12 days before Mexico surrendered. My polls dropped from 75% to 52% during the invasion. After the US Marines marched a second time through the Halls of Montezuma, my polls shot up to 77% then went to 78%.

[Experiment632]

1: OTL--You know the story. Iraq takes Kuwait, US slowly builds up, US attacks Iraq between February-April 1991

2: US-Iraq Alliance--Assist Saddam in his conquests. Sadly polls drops from 52% to -48% with very swift impeachment the same day as Kuwaiti defeat. Guess that was deliberately hardcoded into the game.

3: Defense of Kuwait--Immediately assist Kuwait by sending in troops. I made two attempts. One my polls dropped too far down in only a few days, the other time my polls held for a month before dropping. Maybe I should have started building up in both Saudi Arabia AND Kuwait from the very start.

4: Nuclear Response--The moment Saddam invades Kuwait, I respond with nuclear weapons. My polls fall a good deal but not near low enough for impeachment on the spot. However France or China are likely to nuke me as well, earning a nuclear strike from the UK. I am dead or impeached by mid-August.

5: Neutral At First--I plan to just pull my forces out of the Middle East and let Saddam conquer the Middle East, minus Israel hopefully. About all I will do is make sure my CIA spending there is high. After Iraq has become powerful, I finally get involved by sponsoring a coup to overthrow Saddam, which should result in every state under Iraqi control becoming Capitalist as well. Might be fun having "Super" Iraq on the United States World Team Alliance. This is the only scenario listed that I have not yet tried.

[str4ng3r]

I re-found this game and i'm having a blast. :lol:

However when today i tried to launch a surgical strike against a rogue country, the game crashed!

I downloaded it from abandonia and i'm running dosbox 0.74 for ubuntu (although i'm running the Mint 12 distribution).

Do any of you know how to correct this problem?

Cheers... and... let's get back to the memory lane, and do everything to not issue a surgical strike. :3:

[Experiment632]

Okay, I have decided to place some of the progress of my latest game. The Year is 1995. The Soviet Union still exists and is still Communist. The U.S. decided not to stop Iraq from conquering half the Middle East. However after Iraq had taken Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, & Jordan, the U.S. sponsored a successful Coup 'd Etat in Iraq and its holdings. Iraq became Capitalist and was allowed to keep its gains. With U.S. help, Iraq took over Iran. In 1993, a shakeup in the Soviet Union caused them to temporarily abandon their own World Team Alliance despite still being communist. Taking advantage of this, the U.S. and South Korea invaded North Korea. The Second Korean War lasted about three weeks after which the North surrendered. Due to having more troops in the invasion, South Korea took control of North Korea. In 1994, several nations in Africa became Capitalist though rebel takeovers and wars.

Countdown To World War III: In June 1994, the Soviet Union attempted once again took political action again Japan and successfully sabotaged their economic assets. After determining it was virtually impossible to use covert espionage and due to the USSR's persistent action against Japan for the past 4 years, the U.S. decided to take military action by launching several surgical strikes against the Soviets. Miraculously, the only major Soviet response was a single surgical strike against the U.S. which failed. Nuclear war was averted however Soviet aggression increased. They committed more covert ops for the rest of the year against nations such as France, Japan, Eygpt, South Korean-controlled NK, etc. They successfully launched a Coup 'd Etat in Tunisia in November '94. During January 1995, the Soviets launched a surgical strike against Israel, prompting a successful Israeli sabotage against them. The U.S. responded by placing a full trade embargo against the Soviet Union. The next few months, the U.S. increased their troop deployments in nations bordering the Soviet Union as well as nations bordering those nations. On May 1, 1995, a massive fleet of Soviet warships and full loaded amphibious assault craft are spotted in route to Japan. The Third World War was about to begin...

The Third World War: 1995
http://i.imgur.com/ig62Y.png
World War III continues, despite this U.S.A. Quality of Life is still at 100%
http://i.imgur.com/WI0rk.png
While Soviets can stack more troops to a territory, mine are more well trained
http://i.imgur.com/wCwIB.png
U.S. is clearly in the lead in regards to military power
http://i.imgur.com/VHKo1.png
I can see this conflict continuing into 1996--Unless someone decides to pop a nuke
http://i.imgur.com/1be7y.png
Soviet Invasion of Japan is entering its fifth month
http://i.imgur.com/7NNLS.png
Allied Attack on the Soviet Union continues
http://i.imgur.com/yNnZc.png
Despite not being Communist, Angola is at odds with the U.S. and has Soviet-backing
http://i.imgur.com/seXB3.png
Current WTA setup -- Clearly the enemy is virtually surrounded now
http://i.imgur.com/6Cb2G.png
Capitalism is definitely expanding while Communism & Centralism are declining
http://i.imgur.com/Dd82B.png
I am thinking this is now the largest deployment of U.S. troops since the Second World War
http://i.imgur.com/sKKnb.png
I am sure it is only a matter of time before the Soviets max out their deployments and attack U.S. interests


Allied Holdings
http://i.imgur.com/8lQE1.png
Iraq: Kuwait (1990), Saudi Arabia & Jordan (1991), & Iran (1992) Persian Gulf Crisis, U.S.-Sponsored Coup 'd Etat, & Second Iran-Iraq War
http://i.imgur.com/yCRTF.png
South Korea: North Korea (1993) Second Korean War
http://i.imgur.com/huL7o.png
Liberia: Ivory Coast (1994) Liberia-Ivory Coast War
http://i.imgur.com/kT8M5.png
Zaire: Congo (1994) Congo War
http://i.imgur.com/sUBHe.png
Libya: Chad, Niger, & Algeria (1994) Libyan Territorial Disputes
http://i.imgur.com/ngINO.png
Gabon: Equatorial Guinea (1995) Part of World War Three
http://i.imgur.com/pHEL5.png
Italy: Tunisia (1995) Part of World War Three
http://i.imgur.com/k2AUR.png
Greece: Bulgaria (1995) Part of World War Three


Negotiations & Coup 'd Etat
http://i.imgur.com/yeSf0.png
India is now on U.S.A. WTA for the rest of year -- Very useful setup against Soviet-backed China
http://i.imgur.com/f5m9j.png
Not much to look at but every additional soldier counts
http://i.imgur.com/EwB1C.png
Now a former Soviet ally is fighting for me! May help Ethiopia get back at Somalia for invading them in 1990


Active Combatants of World War Three--Could expand at anytime
U.S.A. WTA
United States, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Turkey, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Norway, Zaire, Libya, Italy, Greece, & Gabon
Soviet WTA & Soviet-backed
Soviet Union, Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Equatorial Guinea, & Angola (Also launched surgical strikes on China & Cuba)

U.S.A. Casualties: 183,918
Soviet Casualties: 899,910

[conquer_everything]

An easy way to get infinite approval is to go to any country that has US troops and is a staunch ally (britain, germany, italy, japan, etc). Enter the troop menu and repeatedly click the button to change the troop levels without altering the number of troops first; each time you do this, if the country accepts, it will raise your popularity a little (1% to 1/3% per click, less the higher your popularity is already). It even works if the troop level is 0, as long as the country accepts. I used this trick to conquer the entire world except a couple of countries I couldn't select, while maintaining 90%+ approval and altering the budget to get vast economic growth. The only feature I found that interferes with the exploit is if you mess with countries' foreign aid packages, then the exploit may stop working. Also beware of lowering social spending too much - it seems like the popularity level may get stuck at 0 if it goes too far below 0 from a single budget change. Dropping to 5% each year with successive cuts and then exploiting back up probably works, though I just stayed in a bunker whenever I unpaused the game to avoid being assassinated.

[RidleyReport.com]

This is a question about Cyber Judas rather than SP...

Can anyone tell me where to find an electronic copy of the manual? More specifically I want to know how to grant most favored nation trading status to a country? Right now the only way I see to do it is if one your advisors recomends it. But I seem to remember being able to do it manually or something back when I played this in the 90s....

Even just a list of controls would help. I did find C for controlling clock and / for changing country. F3 or F2 gives yes/noadvice from advisor...but how do I tell WHAT they are advising me for/against?

[Experiment632]

An easy way to get infinite approval is to go to any country that has US troops and is a staunch ally (britain, germany, italy, japan, etc). Enter the troop menu and repeatedly click the button to change the troop levels without altering the number of troops first; each time you do this, if the country accepts, it will raise your popularity a little (1% to 1/3% per click, less the higher your popularity is already). It even works if the troop level is 0, as long as the country accepts. I used this trick to conquer the entire world except a couple of countries I couldn't select, while maintaining 90%+ approval and altering the budget to get vast economic growth. The only feature I found that interferes with the exploit is if you mess with countries' foreign aid packages, then the exploit may stop working. Also beware of lowering social spending too much - it seems like the popularity level may get stuck at 0 if it goes too far below 0 from a single budget change. Dropping to 5% each year with successive cuts and then exploiting back up probably works, though I just stayed in a bunker whenever I unpaused the game to avoid being assassinated.
I use this very same feature myself with freezing the timer and using the troop deployment feature--very useful during a world war. Me, I prefer to use this feature in Puerto Rico or other US controlled country to prevent from getting spammed with lots of Diplomatic talks. Also US ethic rating does have an impact on the effect of raising popularity.
5.0-6.0: Once you feel you made enough troop deployment requests, starting up the timer will move the popularity up.
4.0-4.9: The poll level raises instantly when deployment request is made, even while the timer is frozen.
3.0-3.9: Troop deployment requests have no effect on the polls.
1.0-2.9: Polls DROP with each deployment request!
Note: If polls are at zero percent, don't bother with deployments as they will have no effect in this case.
As for conquering countries you can't select, that's easy. Just hit the "?" key and scroll down on the ingame pop-up to the country you want.

[heisant]

Just press number keys on the keyboard. 5 is for fastest.

Didn't work in my version.

[tinosotochgo]

Will one of you guys help me get a copy of this game?? I played this game for years and years until my pc crapped out on me and i lost my copy of the cd. I love this game and wish somebody would make a app for android with this game. I gladly pay for someone to send me a copy. only question??? will this run on windows 8??

[The Fifth Horseman]

Will one of you guys help me get a copy of this game?? You can download it from Abandonia right there: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/579
Is there a problem with the download?
only question??? will this run on windows 8??No. It will, however, run in DOSBox and DOSBox will run in Windows 8.

[toybasher]

On cyberjudas gambit, how do you deal with those constant "NEWSWIRE says white house is compromised, details sketchy" etc messages. (some are differently worded and have bigger effect) They sap my approval rating and kill my leadership score, making me get impeached less then a month into my first term! The longest I've lasted is January 18th before being thrown out. Since all my stats drop I can't even get it back up because everybody hates me.

They often pop up several times in a row, making the effect even more traumatic!

How do I stop the press from getting at me? I wish I could assassinate my press secretary (You actually CAN assassinate cabinet members via the menu) but sadly there is no such secretary like there was in shadow president.

I've tried using certain crisis options when I find the unauthorized events like restrict press access or deny authorization but I still get a torrent of "DATA suggests the cabinet breach is bigger then first imagined" messages. Each one takes like 15 percent off of my approval rating and as I said I can get several in a row, leading to immediate impeachment. Even if I had the evidence to convict (Not relevant since I get my butt thrown out immediately before I can gather much.) since my approval rating is so low the charges wouldn't stick.

Please, help!

EDIT: I found out what was happening. If you intrude into the advisor's rooms, do NOT try to randomly guess the computer passwords. I was thinking you could just guess. Every time you get it wrong you're locked out of the session and it triggers the "Cabinet security issues" announcements with the popularity drop. Do NOT randomly hit the passwords. I remembered a few of them and noticed I lasted a full month without seeing a single one of those announcements.

So to put it simply, randomly pressing buttons hoping for the best WILL get you impeached very, VERY quickly, so don't do it!

[DaveTheMan]

Quote list for anyone interested...

Page 1 (http://home.earthlink.net/~genz44/images/shadpres01.jpg)
Page 2 (http://home.earthlink.net/~genz44/images/shadpres02.jpg)
Page 3 (http://home.earthlink.net/~genz44/images/shadpres03.jpg)
Page 4 (http://home.earthlink.net/~genz44/images/shadpres04.jpg)

Now, somebody needs to whip up a single downloadable text file while I sleep... :whistle:
Links no longer work.

Where else can I find the Codes?

[Smiling Spectre]

You can get the manual here (https://dl.myabandonware.com/f/4ca/Shadow-President_Manual_DOS_EN.pdf), for example.

[DaveTheMan]

You can get the manual here (https://dl.myabandonware.com/f/4ca/Shadow-President_Manual_DOS_EN.pdf), for example.

Sorry for Late Reply but Thank you very much for the Link