Playing Zoo Tycoon: MARINE MANIA Today? 

Same! The game is so loved, it really doesn't deserve to fade away! I'm happy to cover it and I hope you're enjoying the coverage of it!

Good news! thats my next upload!

I got another comment telling me about water filters so now I'm like, shoot, I could've pulled this off 😆 Thanks for the tips on the restaurants, locations of them, etc! Perhaps your comment will get featured in the Dino video. 🧐 If anything, for failing to turn a profit in these last two games, I deserve the hardest challenge of them all as the finale! I do remember them being super picky about everything as a kid...Reading the last part of your comment did get me a little worried though..Ngl.. haha 😳

Tank filters unlock after 6 in-game months (30 minutes of gameplay)

@@ztfreak Lies, they are part of the initial bunch

@@cristhianmlr In scenarios and on Kids Map, yes. But any freeform map besides Kids Map gets them after 6 months.

Wait, are you serious?? I wish I would've known that for this video 😂😂

@@Tytar Yup! I started playing it again after.. five years or so? And randomly remembered having read that in like 2006 and I tried it and.. yup, it works!

@@vicwunder3062 Im going to have to try this too! How cool!

@@Tytar Oh, and the best thing: The guests HATE it! Like, they'll sit down to watch a jellyfish swim up and down for like a minute in-game and increasingly get more and more mad. I really recommend trying it for how absurd it is!

@@vicwunder3062 Is it a glitch?? or did they make that on purpose? Thats such a unique find!

believe me, I really regret not knowing this until AFTER I hit upload. 😅

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Probably one of the most accurate comments Ive received on this channel. 😂

@@Tytar I mean it's fun to go blind into a game for a while until you actually get stuck.🙂

lol I definitely agree 🙂

It's gonna be so awesome. I'm glad you're here! 🐊🐢🐍

ooo! Thats a great idea! I might just have to do that for the finale!! (Dinosaur Digs) Love reading your comments, Im glad you enjoyed this one 🙂

Seriously?! Jeesh I wish I would've known that during the playthrough haha

​@Tytar tbf you would have if you'd done the tutorial 😂

Wow. That's super cool and I did not know that fact at all. Thank you for sharing that! I learned something today!

Wait, WHAT?! That's a thing?! Thanks so much for sharing! Seriously! I hope others read this because that's crazy! I wish I captured that for this video! XD I hope you check out the Dino Digs upload coming soon, I have some crazy stuff planned for that one!

Marine Specialist Training 1 also speeds up all future marine research, which the game doesn't explain.

Orcas fart when they're angry.

You're starving your bottlenose dolphins and orcas by not having an exhibit tank for them.

How to make a profitable zoo: Don't make the exhibits that big: big exhibits are expensive to build, harder to navigate for staff and will generally increase the distance guests will have to walk to get to places. Don't let guests walk long distances to get to animals / buildings. I generally assign one single staff member to 3-5 exhibits. Use restaurants instead of food/drink stands, restrooms, benches and trash cans. Spread them around the zoo, because redundancy of having two restaurants close to each other is inefficient. Carousel, animal theatre, animatronic theatre, dinosaur cinema, elephant ride, etc. are buildings that make money, in ZT your primary source of income is via guest accommodations. A compost building generates 50 dollar for every cleaned poop, 100 if it is dinosaur poop, marine animals do not benefit from the compost building effect. The compost building effect does not stack, so having one is enough. for Dinosaur Digs: DRT bases cost 2000 per month, but you can manually pick up escaped dinosaurs. Don't pay the extra 2000 per month. Dinosaurs are expensive. I'd go for a combination of regular animals and dinosaurs. Electrified fences lower the happiness of whoever touches them, goes for both guests and animals. You can keep big dinosaurs in by building a moat of water terrain on the outside of the exhibit or using elevation to keep them in. It should not be a problem for staff (except tour guides) to traverse cliffs.

Foliage clustering is a technique to optimise the amount of foliage that you can place in an exhibit before the animals start showing sad faces. The amount of foliage is not what makes the animals show happy/sad faces. It's the amount of tiles in the exhibit that have foliage. This is not a full or the most accurate description of how the game mechanics work but it is a simple explanation which helps to understand foliage clustering. So how foliage clustering works is: you place four 0.5 x 0.5 sized foliage on a single tile, in order to maximise the amount of foliage in an exhibit. You can toggle show/hide grid with the hotkey Ctrl + G, this makes it easier to cluster foliage.

That makes me so happy to hear! I'm glad you found the channel and the series too. :) I have some really awesome things coming in the dinosaur digs upload and a few other awesome videos on the way that I hope you enjoy as well. :)

@@Tytar I'm excited to see!

Whaaaaat?! You can put guests in tanks?! Man that would've been awesome to capture for this video!! Thanks for sharing, seriously! I'm bummed I missed that! I'm really happy you loved this video. The stuff I'm planning for the Dinosaur Digs video is insane. Stick around, I know you're gonna love it. :)

I was a total failure at this haha

That's an awesome story :) I remember similar things for me with similar games!

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Yea...unfortunately I learned about that after this video was made! It made me sad I didn't know

I'm glad it feels that way. :) I have the base game and dino digs episodes too that I think are just as fun if you ever want to check those out!

I heard about this too late! Lol. I wish I would've known this for the upload!!

@@Tytar that’s alright just giving you a helpful tip

its great to revisit!

It's been great!! I still own the discs. The game is considered abandonware, so if you have antivirus software you can search for a complete collection download online and play it! Always purchase legally if you can, but the game is abandoned now. Use anti-virus software to make sure you are downloading a safe file, but many commenters have reported this has worked just fine for them! I hope you can play soon!

Honestly it's underrated!

I knoooow. I regret not knowing this for this upload 🤣🤣

I realized that once it was too late 😞 haha. I took this advice though after this video and had a much better time playing this expansion with the water filters! I think the big problem I had was I hadnt unlocked them at the beginning so I didnt realize they existed

I still own the discs. Otherwise, because the game is abandoned, you can go to Google and search: Zoo Tycoon 2001 ROM download. Because the game is abandoned, doing it this way is deemed 'ok'. If it was available for purchase, I'd say go and purchase it. Once you download the file safely from a source you deem trustworthy, you can open the file, it should be a .iso file. If you have Windows 10, it should open up the contents of the .iso file, you'll find all the Zoo Tycoon files inside. All you have to do at that point is find the Autorun.exe or find the ZooTycoon.exe file and installs just fine! This is assuming you have Windows 10. Hopefully this helps!

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I totally agree. It seems game companies have traded charm for graphics, and I'm not a huge fan that they've done that.

Amen to that, I keep skipping them going in blind. 😆

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Oh no! Did you miss it? Its in the upload as an easter egg! 🧜‍♀️

The game is considered abandonware, meaning you cant get it! Some people have mentioned looking it up online at archive.org. Just scan with an antivirus and as always, purchase the game if possible!

you know what?! Thats fair...lol. 😂😂😂 Keep an eye out for the dino episode...Ill see what I can do 😌

dont you worry, I did it in dinosaur digs 😭😅

Haha!! I was hoping you would enjoy that! I loved reading your comment. 🙂 Im so bummed, Im reading all these comments about filters and I cant believe I never knew! haha! At the start of the game when the marine specialist said they were cleaning the tank I assumed thats what it meant, they clean tanks! They do, but they arent very effective! lol

Im really happy I could capture a good time for you to enjoy. 🙂 Im happy you found your way here. The dinosaur digs one is going to be great so if you'd like, that one Ive got some awesome plans for. Thanks for commenting 🙂

Yea...I loosely call it a DLC but really it's more of a physical expansion pack. I'm just so used to calling things DLCs these days. The old days with physical expansions were much better, as evidenced by these playthroughs!

I was wondering the same thing, but from some of these comments, apparently at a certain time period of your zoo's existence you unlock water filters which help keep the tanks clean!

lol I made a big mistake haha

I hope you enjoyed how I put your name in this one. I wanted to do something unique for you guys this time 🙂 Poor sharkie 😔🦈🦈🦈 Im grateful for your support as well as the others 🙂

Also, show tanks are ment to be temporary tanks. You can connect regular tanks to it. I use to make one large show tank with every show animal in seperate tanks connected to it. Thus show after show would occur in the show tank, ramping up revenue.

Yea Im far less experienced with Planet Zoo! I had so many ZT players recommending it though! I have 1 upload on the channel about it. It's where I build a zoo in the sky haha

I'm glad 😂😂 Hopefully it didn't make too big a mess 😂

This is some great advice! I wish I would've known that before! 😆 Do you know how much this applies to Zoo Tycoon 2? That's an upcoming upload of mine and Marine Mania is one of the DLCS in it!

@@Tytar Sadly cant say ive played two i have the complete collection but twos a whole new ball of wax. though same makers so generally the advice should be roughly the same and remains sound

I still own the discs. Otherwise, because the game is abandoned, you can go to Google and search: Zoo Tycoon 2001 ROM download. Because the game is abandoned, doing it this way is deemed 'ok'. If it was available for purchase, I'd say go and purchase it. Once you download the file safely from a source you deem trustworthy, you can open the file, it should be a .iso file. If you have Windows 10, it should open up the contents of the .iso file, you'll find all the Zoo Tycoon files inside. All you have to do at that point is find the Autorun.exe or find the ZooTycoon.exe file and installs just fine! This is assuming you have Windows 10. Hopefully this helps!

Do you mean the marine mania and dinosaur digs?

@@Tytar both are few animals in my game (

Do so at your own risk, but for the record, I did it this way with no issues! Just make sure you have good antivirus software and you don't get a virus doing this. But again, I had no issues! I went on Google and searched: Zoo Tycoon 2001 ROM download. Because the game is abandoned, doing it this way is deemed 'ok'. If it was available for purchase, I'd say go and purchase it. Once you download the file safely from a source you deem trustworthy, you can open the file, it should be a .iso file. If you have Windows 10, it should open up the contents of the .iso file, you'll find all the Zoo Tycoon files inside. All you have to do at that point is find the Autorun.exe or find the ZooTycoon.exe file and installs just fine! This is assuming you have Windows 10. Hopefully this helps!

In all my years playing this I had never heard it either. 😆 It was so random, like, why did they even add this to the game? Some one told me it was the Orca's when they get unhappy, but why did they have to add a fart sound for that? 😆😆

@@Tytar LOL i just looked in the game's sound files, there is indeed a file called "fart.wav" inside the Orca's file ahahaha wtf

@@eoau It is so unnecessary to have that in the game 😆

Thanks for giving it a try and sharing your input. 🙂

😆😆😆 It's been almost 20 years alright?! I'm sorry for the sharkie and all the animals in dirty tanks 😆😆😆