Hello friends! i recently got my PC up and running and man all I want to do is play Zoo Tycoon 2. I understand i can download it from Myabandonware, but I need someone to explain to me like I'm a five year old how to get it to run, I have no idea what mounting a disc image to a virtual drive means. It's like a foreign language lol. I'd really appreciate the help!

^{(excuse the lame game-asset collage, I didn't know what to add 💔})
I had fixated on the Wii USA release date and today is the real date the game came out lol

Anyways, download them here:
https://github.com/usagiNo9/WoZ-Tools

Also, I created a first original mod: Paintbox Expanded
Now with a total of 96 colors to choose from!
^{(I prefer natural colors, so there's some more tinted browns and grays as well})

I'm trying to figure what else I can mod myself but for now, while the tools / scripts could be better, I'm really looking forward to see what other people can do.
Anything to make World of Zoo moddable at long last!

Please tell me what I'm doing wrong? It's campaign mode.

So I started playing again some days ago and discovered that while some easter eggs worked, I could not unlock the yellow brick road. I though maybe the game wasnt ok... but now I was playing the second to last scenario (where the map has the ybr) i put the lion-tiger-bear in and... it worked!

Im trying to do it again in a freeform game... no luck. And just to try it I played the scenario game again and now it wont work.

Ive tried puttin all males, getting them in order, etc but nothings doing the trick... does anybody have the same problem?

Ps: I am using a male african lion, bengal tiger and grizzly bear.

UPDATE: It worked now! I closed the game completely, turned it on and tried the trick.

https://gamebanana.com/mods/730660

World of Zoo is turning 17 on the 26th!

While not that deep as the Zoo Tycoon series, it's always held a especial place in my heart since I was a kid. And of course, even as an adult I kept wanting to see ALL the animals on PC one day...

...And now they're actually here!

Looking to get more people to see this, try it, and maybe help find any bug that managed to sneak in!

*Edit: Thanks everyone for the support :) -- The tools are coming out now because I was dumb and saw the US Wii release date, not the original game's one.

Tools are already out! Download them here:
https://github.com/usagiNo9/WoZ-Tools

You can also get Paintbox Expanded, a mod that adds 56 new colors to the default 40!

Is anyone playing on Steamdeck? I’d love to know what emulator you’re using. I figured out how to play Pokémon on my deck and next is Zoo Tycoon!

Neither can the mammoth. Discrimination among elephant-kins.

I wanted to make a plan for a wildlife park that houses every species seen alive in Zoo Tycoon, but I don't know if I'm missing anything because I have to use multiple incomplete lists to find information. So far I have these animals:

Zoo Tycoon

Allosaurus

Ankylosaurus magniventris

Apatosaurus

Camptosaurus

Caudipteryx

Coelodonta antiquitatis - Woolly Rhinoceros

Coelophysis

Deinosuchus hatcheri

Dimorphodon

Diplocaulus

Gallimimus

Herrerasaurus

Iguanodon

Karaurus

Kentrosaurus

Lambeosaurus

Macrauchenia

Mammuthus primigenius - Woolly Mammoth

Megatherium americanum - Giant Ground Sloth

Meiolania - Giant Tortoise

Plateosaurus

Plesiosaurus

Pterodactylus

Rhamphorhynchus

Smilodon fatalis - Sabre-Toothed Cat

Spinosaurus

Stegosaurus stenops

Styracosaurus albertensis

Triadobatrachus

Triceratops horridus

Tyrannosaurus rex

Velociraptor mongoliensis

Zoo Tycoon 2

Aepyornis maximus - Elephant Bird

Arctodus simus - Short-Faced Bear

Bos primigenius - Aurochs

Carnotaurus sastrei

Choeropsis liberiensis heslopi - Pygmy Hippopotamus

Deinonychus antirrhopus

Dimetrodon angelensis

Diprotodon optatum

Doedicurus clavicaudatus

Dusicyon australis - Warrah

Equus quagga quagga - Quagga

Eucladoceros dicranios - Bush-Antlered Deer

Gigantopithecus blacki

Hippotragus leucophaeus - Bluebuck

Mammut americanum - American Mastodon

Metridiochoerus andrewsi - Giant Warthog

Palaeoloxodon falconeri - Dwarf Sicilian Elephant

Panthera spelaea - Cave Lion

Protarchaeopteryx robusta

Raphus cucullatus - Dodo

Sivatherium maurusium

Stokesosaurus clevelandi

Thylacinus cynocephalus - Thylacine

Titanotylopus spatulus - Giant Camel

Utahraptor ostrommaysi

Zoo Tycoon: The Board Game - Dinosaur Digs

Amargasaurus

Anchiornis

Archaeopteryx

Brachiosaurus

Deinocheirus

Diplodocus

Dracovenator

Eoraptor

Mbiresaurus

Melanorosaurus

Microraptor

Minmi

Pachycephalosaurus

Parasaurolophus

Pentasaurus

Protoceratops

Therizinosaurus

Yi

What bridge shall I use for the animals to use to cross the islands for the jungle exhibit? As you can see it's being used.

Has anyone else seen that both Archaeopteryx and Iguanodon have been spelled incorrectly? Would this be fixed before the final release or are these typos set in stone now?

I was gifted my grandpas old laptop and I still have my old copy of zoo tycoon complete collection and some of the mods I want to use are only on zooteks website, I emailed them last night so im not impatient im just wondering if they are still active

PZ2 lets you stack fences, so you can put a glass fence in the same place as a rock fence without replacing it, creating a unique barrier.

Would this be possible to mod into ZT2? Or too complex for the engine?

I recently had to reset my pc, and thus reinstall Zoo Tycoon. When I tried reinstalling the bonus content, though, I just can't get it to work. I've read guides saying that I should place them in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft Games\Zoo Tycoon 2\downloads\zootycoon_com_zt2_1033, which is what I have done, but it doesn't seem to work either. Any clue as to what's causing this?

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I feel like I've tried most everything at this point.

-Making the exhibit 10x10

-limiting how visible they are to guests so they don't feel overwhelmed.

-Did everything to make their habitat suitable for them.

-Only used their favourite trees

-Put a climbing tree in, the jaguars ignored it.

-Used the first one to figure out what they needed, sold him and then adopted two more after - male and female.

No matter what, they're always miserable. I mean, I can't say I blame them, captivity sucks especially if they're just being gawked at. But is there something else I'm missing?

I saw a post with a theme like this someday and decided to make a whole new post. The Rule Explanations from me

- Maximum of 10 new animals per Animal Set

- No New Fictional Animals

- The Post would hypothetically explain the Name, Biome, Star Rating, and the Conservation Status of the Animals

- No " Place the Animals we eventually got later in the line-up earlier in the timeline "

- Nothing for Dino Danger; all of its features were later used in EA, so this could potentially cause the disturbance of the first rule

- No Straight Up Flying Animals.

- No Marine Extinct Animals, as much as I want to include them

Zoo Tycoon 2 Base Game:

Emu

Biome: Grassland

Star Rating: 1.0

Conservation Status: Low Risk

Wild Boar

Biome: Temperate Forest

Star Rating: 1.5

Conservation Status: Low Risk

Malayan Tapir

Biome: Tropical Rainforest

Star Rating: 2

Conservation Status: Endangered

Capybara

Biome: Wetlands

Star Rating: 2

Conservation Status: Low Risk

Blackbuck

Biome: Grassland

Star Rating: 1.0

Conservation Status: Low Risk

Zoo Tycoon 2: Endangered Species

Japanese Serow

Biome: Boreal Forest

Star Rating: 2.5

Conservation Status: Low Risk

North Island Brown Kiwi

Biome: Temperate Forest

Star Rating: 4

Conservation Status: Vulnerable

Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure

Hamadryas Baboon

Biome: Scrub

Star Rating: 1.5

Conservation Status: Low Risk

Common Eland

Biome: Savannah

Star Rating: 2

Conservation Status: Low Risk

Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania

Harbor Seal

Biome: Coastal

Star Rating: 2

Conservation Status: Low Risk

Green Moray Eel

Biome: Reef

Star Rating: 1

Conservation Status: Low Risk

Giant Barracuda

Biome: Reef

Star Rating: 2.5

Conservation Status: Low Risk

Common Octopus

Biome: Pelagic

Star Rating: 2

Conservation Status: Low Risk

Pelagic Stingray

Biome: Pelagic

Star Rating: 1.5

Conservation Status: Low Risk

Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals

Coelophysis

Biome: Scrub

Star Rating: 1.5

Conservation Status: Extinct

Camarasaurus

Biome: Savannah

Star Rating: 5

Conservation Status: Extinct

Iguanodon

Biome: Temperate Forest

Star Rating: 2

Conservation Status: Extinct

Spinosaurus

Biome: Wetlands

Star Rating: 5

Conservation Status: Extinct

Parasaurolophus

Biome: Wetlands

Star Rating: 3

Conservation Status: Extinct

Embolotherium

Biome: Scrub

Star Rating: 4

Conservation Status: Extinct

Phorusrhacos

Biome: Savannah

Star Rating: 2

Conservation Status: Extinct

Meiolania

Biome: Scrub

Star Rating: 2

Conservation Status: Extinct

Colombian Mammoth

Biome: Grassland

Star Rating: 5

Conservation Status: Extinct

Irish Elk

Biome: Boreal Forest

Star Rating: 2.5

Conservation Status: Extinct

Just a teaser for the upcoming reimplementation of ZT Friends, a lost media game that has been rediscovered (yours truly) in April 2026. This game was shut down by Microsoft in April 2015 for unknown reasons.