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1. Silent Hunter

Description of Silent Hunter

Silent Hunter is a classic WWII submarine simulation that today remains one of the few titles that could give Dynamix' Aces of The Deep a run for its money.

Before the game's release, the best sub simulation that deals with Pacific theater in WWII was MicroProse's aging Silent Service II. Silent Hunter ups the ante in submarine simulations with great SVGA graphics, strong realism, and excellent gameplay.

As with AOTD, the heart and soul of Silent Hunter is the career mode. If you start your career early in the war, you will be assigned a S-Class sub with limited torpedoes, speed and depth. Surviving a few patrols in this submarine is a real challenge. If you do survive, you will be assigned new subs and equipment as they become available. If you are very lucky, you can play through to the end of the war, an unrealistic, but appreciated option.

If a career doesn't appeal to you, Silent Hunter allows you to generate your own missions. The mission generator lets you set the date, time, crew quality, convoy size, warship type, escort size, air cover, and weather. You can also set various realism levels such as limited fuel, battery life, ammo, visibility, and depth data, as well as dud torpedoes, realistic torpedo reloads, ship vulnerability, running aground, realistic charts and combat experience level. The variations here are enough to give the game almost limitless replayability. The mission generator is also very useful for setting up practice scenarios to develop the skills necessary to survive a career.

With outstanding SVGA graphics (although with arguably less realistic weather effects than AOTD), strong gameplay, and no compromise on realism, Silent Hunter is a must-have for every armchair naval commander. Two thumbs up!

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Comments and reviews

Big J2020-10-240 point

The one you want is the Commanders Addition (available here). It has all three expansions, 45 new scenarios, six additional patrol zones (Sulu Sea, Malaysia, Hong Kong, 'Vietnam' (should be Indochina to be historically accurate), Java Sea, and Aleutian Islands). Have a couple bad patrols and watch as Admiral Lockwood exiles you to Dutch Harbor. Several bug fixes, lifeguard missions, photo recon missions, improved convoy AI, night time red lighting, the ability to launch debris to fool the ASW vessels, and ability to man the AA guns. I found it very satisfying when my crew shot down a Betty just before he bombed us straight to Davy Jones' locker.
This is simply the best US Pacific theatre Sub Sim out there. SH IV is much prettier, much more realism (you have to take stadimeter readings to get the range at full realism) but unfortunately it is bug ridden with annoying CTD faults that can crop up after working on a convoy for half an hour or more.
So glad you guys are keeping this classic available here.

Loved this game!2020-10-040 point

I remember playing this game in highschool all the time, the best sub game of the 90s! I was addicted to it. So realistic, too. And when the Japanese destroyers would depth charge with the sonar pings pinpointing the subs position, while the sub running deep and silent, with red lights in the control room, it was really a thrill ride!

punn2020-05-210 point

wow is very fantastic

Caesar Augustus2020-04-271 point

To hammy and anyone with the no sound problem (thanks to arnman and leofender!):
1) Download the game zip archive.
2) Extract the zip to your DOS games folder (e.g. 'C:dosgames' on windows). You may need 7-Zip or winrar to extract it. So now you have the game folder 'silenthunter' (e.g. 'C:dosgamessilenthunter' on windows).
3) Navigate to the newly 'silenthunter' folder.
4) Create a new folder: right-click 'new folder'. Name this folder 'INSTALL' (without quotes).
5) Run DOSBox. Type (without quotes):
'mount d c:dosgamessilenthunterINSTALL -t cdrom' [ENTER] (on windows)
'mount d ~/dosgames/silenthunter/INSTALL -t cdrom' [ENTER] (on Linux)
(Substitute 'c:dosgames...INSTALL' with your actual path. The spaces in the command must be respected, so you have spaces before and after 'd' and '-t' . This will mount a virtual cdrom drive as the 'INSTALL' folder, you may type 'intro cdrom' for details.)
'mount c c:dosgamessilenthunter' [ENTER] (on windows)
(Substitute 'c:dos...' with your path.)
'c:' [ENTER]
'sh' [ENTER]
6) Enjoy the game with sound!
If you wish to automate the process so you don't have to type every time you play the game, you can create a desktop shortcut as one alternative (others being creating a batch file, or a '.desktop' file or a shell script on Linux):
1) Navigate to your DOSBox config file folder (e.g. on windows it may be 'C:UsersuserAppDataLocalDOSBox', on Linux it may be '~/.dosbox', hidden in the 'home' folder).
Note: On windows the 'AppData' folder may be hidden so you have to configure windows to show hidden folders.
2) Copy and paste 'dosbox-0.74-3.conf' file into the 'silenthunter' folder.
3) Open the new config file with a text editor ('notepad' on windows).
4) Erase every command line below the '[autoexec]' section that may be present and add the following line (substitute 'c:dos...' with your path):
mount d c:dosgamessilenthunterINSTALL -t cdrom
5) Save and close it.
6) Navigate to your DOSBox executable folder. (e.g. on windows it may be 'C:Program Files (x86)DOSBox-0.74-3')
7) Right-click 'DOSBox.exe' , 'create shortcut'. Move the shortcut to the desktop.
8) Right-click the shortcut, 'properties', 'shortcut' tab. In 'target', type (WITH quotes):
'C:Program Files (x86)DOSBox-0.74-3DOSBox.exe' -conf 'C:dosgamessilenthunterdosbox-0.74-3.conf' 'C:dosgamessilenthunterSH.EXE' -fullscreen -exit
(Substitute the paths with your actual paths.)
'-conf' tells DOSBox to load the 'silenthunter' folder's config file (with the command to mount the virtual cdrom drive).
'-fullscreen' is optional. It loads DOSBox directly in fullscreen.
'-exit' is optional. Exit DOSBox after you quit the game.
9) Hit 'apply' then 'OK'.
10) Rename the shortcut with 'Silent Hunter' or whatever you want.
11) Done. This will make the game run with sound in no time!

hammy2020-04-090 point

To: leofender
cc: Arnman
Trying my best to achieve sound. Having a really hard time following those instructions.
Could we have a more detailed description or perhaps a video? Thank you.

leofender2020-01-211 point

For sound, I created a folder called INSTALL in de the root folder of the game. (Thanks ARNMAN for the tip!!)
I then created a .BAT file with following contents. I'm on Ubuntu:
mount d ./INSTALL -t cdrom
SH.EXE
If you're on Windows, it should probably be:
mount d .INSTALL -t cdrom
SH.EXE
Now it runs perfectly.

Dave Woods2019-08-160 point

One of the best games I ever had .... Brilliant

LG2018-10-08-1 point

Hello for some reason , I always thought that this game was called Silent Service. Just in case anyone is interested I have the original manual for Silent Service

MaddMaxx2017-10-052 points

Hi folks,
Here is a link for a working SH I
with DosBox interated:
http://www.monkeygames.uz/game/silent-hunter
Best regards and good hunting
M.M.

Arnman2017-04-132 points

For sound
create an empty folder called 'INSTALL' that you can mount in DOSbox
then call
mount d INSTALL -t cdrom
Then run game
In Ubuntu I had to put the empty INSTALL folder in HOME

dvdn2017-02-020 point

make another shortcut of your shortcut icon in the SH folder. and then move it to the DT.

Skipper2015-11-141 point

I like it, except for the lack of sound and the inability to jettison debris. This was the first computer game I ever owned, it was put on by the friend who gave us the computer, and you could rig for red, jettison debris, and order the crew to man the AA guns. Perhaps someone could enlighten me there? I have not really done much with the other SH games, especially the ones where you are an Axis commander, I typically don't play where I fight America.

sssk2015-04-182 points DOS version

Does anyone know how to make the sound work?

Captain Mack2014-08-260 point DOS version

My favorouite game, although new model games ara current, I never change my choice

king6662014-01-06-3 points DOS version

ok

Meta2013-11-191 point DOS version

Works perfectly.

Meta2013-11-191 point DOS version

I had this game years ago. Fantastic game, great memories. Now going to try installing it with DBGL and running it in DOSBOX....hope it works...

subsimcrazy2013-11-181 point DOS version

you have to install dosbox then install game from a dos prompt on full screen then actually search for install instructions on web it would take to long to explain it

me2013-07-22-1 point DOS version

If you cant run the game its because you forgot to read http://www.myabandonware.com/howto/
simply extracting to your desktop will not magically create an icon and make a dos game run in windows.

ricky2013-04-300 point DOS version

i do no how to run it. the files are not lacked

gamer2013-03-09-2 points DOS version

i have download silent hunter 1 than 1 extract to desktop
why after i extract to desktop , there is no icon to play Silent hunter 1 ?
can you help me ? to make silent hunter 1 can run?

wolf2013-02-170 point DOS version

Silent Hunter 3 Mods

Is a nice game ..

Alexander2012-11-261 point DOS version

Does anyone know any way to make the sound work? Thanks

Khan2012-10-170 point DOS version

nice game

Maria2012-09-160 point DOS version

Good one

Fr33Th1nk3r2012-08-281 point DOS version

No sound

ESwann2012-07-060 point DOS version

My sound was working at first, then it just quit. No idea why. Any ideas?

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justin2012-04-160 point DOS version

good game

xmris2012-02-161 point DOS version

sadly no sound under dosbox ;-(

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