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Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World

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Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World
Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World cover
Developers
New World Computing
Release dates
DOS 1988
Mac OS (Classic) 1990
Windows September 3, 2009[1]
Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World guide on StrategyWiki
Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World on Wikipedia
⤏ Go to series page
Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum 1986
Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World 1988
Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra 1991
Might and Magic: Clouds of Xeen 1992
Might and Magic: Darkside of Xeen 1993
Might and Magic: World of Xeen 1994
Swords of Xeen 1995
Heroes of Might and Magic (series)
Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven 1998
Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor 1999
Crusaders of Might and Magic 1999
Arcomage 1999
Might and Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer 2000
Legends of Might and Magic 2001
Might and Magic IX 2002
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic 2006
Might & Magic: Duel of Champions 2013
Might & Magic X - Legacy 2014
Might & Magic Showdown Cancelled
Might & Magic: Chess Royale 2020

Key points

Characters can be imported from Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum (see Import characters).

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Celestial Heavens' subforum

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
 Use DOSBox for DOS version.
DOS
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
 Bundled with games 1-6. Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[2]
Windows

Essential improvements

Import characters

Characters can be imported from Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum.
Copy ROSTER.DTA[citation needed]
  1. Go to the installation folder for the first game.
  2. Copy ROSTER.DTA.
  3. Go to the installation folder for Might and Magic II.
  4. Paste ROSTER.DTA here.
  5. In the game choose to Start Game (S), then Transfer Characters (T).
  6. Wait for the text entry prompt to appear, then type ROSTER.DTA (or whatever your roster file is called).
  7. Press Y to confirm saving the imported characters in the roster.
Imported characters are copied into ROSTER.DAT; the original ROSTER.DTA is no longer needed.

Automap

Where are we, an automap program for Might & Magic 1-5.

Game data

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\ROSTER.DAT
Windows <path-to-game>\ROSTER.DAT[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
ROSTER.DAT stores all characters; it must be present to play (an empty file with this name will also work).
ROSTER.DAT also stores the in-game settings.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video settings

General settings.
General settings.

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible DirectX 9 compatible

Notes

  1. ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References