Detective Barbie 2: The Vacation Mystery

26 thoughts on “Detective Barbie 2: The Vacation Mystery”

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   I got the game working. It needs the windows xp virtual box. links are in the WIKI
   I followed this youtube video how to do so https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkvR70y63R4
   and how to add the a game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M37716l4XI
   unfortunately, it so small huhuh because it’s an 8bit game. It works i just don’t know the work around here yet.

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   Just like detective barbie 1, the installation process works on windows 11 but when you try and start the game, nothing happens

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   says item is not available please update the download availability so that we can continue to enjoy this game

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   All links broken! Update links please?

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   when I try to download it does not download as a ZIP file, so there is never anything to extract

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   it crashes on windows XP when you try to go to the hedge maze

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   This game works without crashing on Windows 95 Emulator (for me anyway). After you install you need to look at the disc files and click on the ‘d2’ exe to open the game.

   It won’t work if you try to open it from the shortcut. My windows 95 is also on 256 color bit mode so it looks fine, might not on 16 bit mode. Also if you can’t see the exe at all on the disc you need to change your windows 95 file settings to unhide all files.

   Hope this is helpful to someone!

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     As someone who is new to this site. I would like to know how you got to play it. What steps do you take to get the right emulator where do you go id appreciate anything to help. Id love to be able to finish this game that I couldnt when I was younger

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       Here’s a guide I made, if there are any issues with my vid or the written version PLS dm me.

       https://www.speedrun.com/detective_barbie_2/guide/ej91a

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         Hi Zuko! I tried to Start the “Matt Win 95” on Oracle, but it’s just got aborted. Tried uninstalling-reinstalling etc, still doesnt work 🙁

         It’s the emulator I have problems with! I’m on Windows 10

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   I would like to play this game on my MacBook air 2020 but there’s a dialog box that’s says the application to run the program can’t be found and to search the app store for it…

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     It’s not compatible for Macbooks. As stated in the instructions above, it must be run on Windows 7 or Windows XP. You may be able to find an application somewhere online to emulate that OS so you’re able to install it there though.

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     You should be able to play it in emulation. Look up VMWare, Parallels, and UTM.

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   I would like to play this game on my MacBook air 2020 but there’s a dialog box that says an application couldn’t be found to run the program.

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     This download is for Windows. It’s not compatible with Mac.

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    I’ve installed the game but it won’t run both on win10 and winxp (vm). Can somebody help me? I really want to play it!!!!

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    it did work on wind 10!

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    I’ve tried installing this extensively. It installs on all the systems I’ve tried it on but when trying to start the game the “Play” button causes a d2.exe error.

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    this game crashes on Windows XP and Windows 7 🙁

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      i know i’m replying to myself here, but has anyone figured out a way to run this game on windows xp and windows 7 without it crashing after installing?

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        ugh i need help too, i so wanna play this game 🙁

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        I finally got this game running smoothly after 10 years+ of experimenting.

        I followed this tutorial to setup Windows 98 Second Edition on VMware workstation 15:
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMDdsQSUFB8

        This tutorial doesn’t include SciTech Display Doctor which is needed to get DB2 running. Here’s my screenshots of the display drivers that I used. There’s many tutorials on YouTube with how to get this installed. Most Windows 98 SE virtual machine tutorials include how to do this.

        https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c113d0a2ebc522c7d3063c27f87385b49fd9908e892dff3f0577b42c850457dc.jpg

        The Download on this site seems to be the same as the one from Archive, they both crash at startup. Don’t bother with either.
        “https://archive.org/details/BarbieDetective2VacationMystery”

        Unfortunately the only working copy I could find is in Spanish, but you can use it to test if the game works until we can find a working English copy.

        Detective Barbie 2 Spanish Download:
        https://mega.nz/file/Y1x0yYRA#Y9hBSp5-jdpODVwxrEUxubZFoyP3Nxh3x030hmpVjFQ

        The Game will likely never be able to run on windows 2000 onwards, because there’s a serious crash when entering the maze in modern versions of windows. Just stick to Windows 98 Second edition (NOT first edition).

        I had way too many errors on oracle virtual box to bother recommending to use that. I do play DB1 on there and many other XP based games. But it was too tricky with windows 98.

        Anyways I hope I’ve helped in anyway. If anyone has a working English copy please share it with us. I got to finally play all 3 Detective Barbie games tonight which was so nostalgic. Hope everyone can easily play this game as well!

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      in my case im playing this old games with an emulator VMWARE. there s some instruction on youtube for install

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        so only virtual machine Windows XP or Windows 7 will do it

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          I tried on a virtual machine and it crashed too 🙁
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          maybe it crashes because there’s no physical disc