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Installation of Simutrans

I.Parts of Simutrans

Simutrans is composed of two parts : the software (an executable file and some files to fo with, musics if you don't have anything else to listen, and some other stuff) and the pakset (.pak files and folders config, doc, scenario, sound, text) which contains all the necessary objects for the game. You can play with any pakset you want while it's compatible with the latest Simutrans releases. The two parts (software and pakset) must be downloaded separately.

II.Simutrans'development

Currently Simutrans is a free game developed by an international community, some people develop the software by coding patchs which are compiled in the latest Simutrans releases then, some other people develop one ore more paksets by creating objetcs. You can take part of the development, the software is coded in C++ and avaible on sourceforge, to create objects take a look at the addon creation tutorial on this site. To do some suggestions about the game or to ask for help, fo on the Simutrans'forum, for help demands you can ask your question directly in your language's section.

III.Download a Simutrans'release

Last stable releases of the game are avaible here. You can also use the latest improvements by downloading nighlty builds of Simutrans (compiled every night with the latest patchs) here.

IV.Download a pakset

There are several paksets according to the player's preferences, they're different by their graphics and sometimes by their size. These are the paksets you can play :

pak128

It's the pakset which has the most graphics, it's well playable and just awesome.Download

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pak64

The fist pakset of Simutrans, it's economicaly well balanced but graphicaly limited because of its small size.Download

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pak96 Comic

This pakset got simple graphics inspired by comics as its name says. Its simplicity highlights the gameplay. This pakset is under heavy development even it's already playable.Download

pak128 Britain

Its graphics are dull colored which remains the London's atmosphere. This pakset is playable and it's the only one compatible with Simutrans experimental (another development of Simutrans in which new ecenomics and ideas are experimented, unfortunately it's atrociously performance unfriendly).Download

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pak128 Japan

The pak japan was developed by the Japanese Simutrans'community, its development started because Japanese creators found the size of trains in pak128 too small, that's why trains are much bigger in pak japan.Download

These are the main paksets, you can find a complete list on this site.

V.Install

Once you downloaded Simutrans and at least one pakset, put the packed files in the folder where you want to install simutrans (often programs or program files in windows) then unpack them.

To easily unpack or pack files/folders, you can use the free release of winrar, downloadable on this page.

The paksets have to be in simutrans folder. Then launch Simutrans by its executable so it will create a folder in your documents which will contain savegames and some other things.

It's possible to have several paksets at a time, the game will ask you which pakset to load at starting.