Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time

I have been trying to find this game for years for download that would not crap out - YAY for reliving childhood memories!

I've got the game working on Windows 11, and it works great but I'm getting some graphical issues. The screen is black but when I move my mouse over the screen it clears away the black but this resets every time the scene in the game changes. Does anyone have any advice for fixing this?

Good news folks, I found out how to get the 2nd disk to work with the Virtual Clone Drive!

For starters, I followed MATT's advice but I had to have two drives instead of one.

I had the 1st disk on drive F but when the time came to switch to the 2nd disk when the "Insert disk 2" prompt appeared, I had to disconnect from the virtual drive disk in order to dismount the 1st disk on drive F and mount the 2nd disk in its place and to re-connect my virtual disk drive, I had to mount the 1st disk on drive E and go through the process DJWAFER suggested to get to the start up menu.

After that, I was back at the "Insert disk 2" prompt where I pressed OK and just like that, I was back in business!

Hope this info proves helpful.

I used DJWafer's suggestion to install the whole thing and it worked. My problem now is trying to play the "2nd disk". I tried opening the 2nd .bin file with Virtual Clone Drive and went through the same process as the 1st .bin file but when I try to start it up, it says "Game not Found!". I don't know whether I was supposed to do something else or not but I am at a total loss right now.

I had issues putting in the 2nd CD file, aswell.
I read the "troubleshooting guide" which you can access on the menu before starting the game. there's a sections that says:

If the Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time startup window does
not appear automatically on screen:
1. Click Start, point to Programs, then to The Learning Company, and
and then the Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time folder.
2. Click the Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time menu item to
begin the game.

this worked for me. hope this helps!

For anyone who may be having audio issues after installing the game in virtualbox, you might want to turn off hyper v/memory intergrity in the settings. That will fix the issue.

Using PCem to emulate Windows 98 on my desktop. Played through disk 1 but when it asks to insert disk #2 I get an error message that the game file isn't found for disk 2. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I got the game running using DJwafer's instructions. But, every time I pick up the first note in egypt, the game freezes up, and I can't get past that. I could try playing without the notes, I guess. But, wasn't sure if anyone had advice for troubleshooting this issue?

Got the game to work, aside from the graphic issues it works great. The only issue I seem to keep running into is that it freezes once in a while and I have to restart my computer each time. Any suggestions?

Has anyone gotten this to work on a steam deck?

I tried the method by DJWAFER, but after I clicked 'install' when the game opened, it just never installs it. Tried it multiple times, checked that I was doing .bin1, etc. Nothing. ;_;

I appreciate hosting all these games but without an included way to guarantee you'll be able to play it's kind of useless

Hi, is anyone else having an issue with starting Disc 2? I completed Disc 1, now I've opened the 2nd bin file. I run setup32.exe, and the game window opens. But when I try to click on the play button, a window pops up saying "game not found."

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Are you using a PC with WinXP operating system, or PCem with WinXP environment or VirtualBox with WinXP environment, or if something else what is it?

not sure if anyone is still following this but I got it working up through disc 1 what do I do to get disc 2 to play?

I just finished playing this game on my Windows 10 machine, worked beautifully! Here was my procedure:

-Download and extract the game files from this page, gave me two large .bin files and two 1KB .cue files

-Download Oracle VM Virtualbox and install a virtual machine with Windows XP 32 bit. I used this video as a guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GYeqWEHzZI Don't forget the Insert Guest Additions step at 9:20, I think this is necessary to allow the virtual machine to work in full screen mode.

-In the virtual machine, I used devices = optical drives = choose a disc file, selected the Cd_gctt1.cue from the directory. I just installed it normally, no tricks. I believe I went to My Computer and double clicked on the D drive to get the game menu to appear with the install option.

-I believe I did what DJWafer said in their step 5, I pressed "Skip" to not overwrite Quicktime (I'm fairly sure this is what I did).

-I had to use right ctrl-C to switch back and forth between scale (full screen) mode. I couldn't switch from disc 1 to disc 2 unless I was in windowed mode. Once the correct disc was in, I switched back to full screen mode.

Hope this helps someone!

@DJWAFER These instructions almost completely worked for me. Once I got to the install setup32.exe part and clicked install, nothing happened. The 32 bit installer just stayed as a background process and no option to install Quicktime was prompted. I even double checked to make sure I was in the first .bin file which I was. Any ideas of what to try next?

Here's how I got this to run on a Windows 10 machine :
1. Download file
2. Download and install Virtual Clone Drive https://www.elby.ch/en/products/vcd.html
3. Extract files and open the 1st .bin file with Virtual Clone Drive. It may open a folder with a series of files or it may prompt you asking what to do with a disc. You may also be able to navigate to a virtual CD-rom via your file explorer. When you open this folder there is a setup.exe file begging to be clicked, don't. Instead, navigate to the folder labeled 'Install', inside you will find the correct set-up file labeled setup32.exe. Run this using windows xp pack 3 compatibility (found in properties folder).
4. You should be looking at the start-up menu, congrats! Almost there. Click install. If it prompts you asking you to enter disc one it's because you've been using the 2nd .bin file instead of the first. Each set corresponds to disc 1 and disc 2, go back to the initial download folder and make sure that you're accessing these files through the first .bin file.
5. After the first part of installation it will prompt you to install Quicktime. Follow instructions and when it asks press 'Skip' so that it doesn't search your system and try to overwrite other instances of Quicktime.
6. You should get a message confirming a successful install.
7. Go back to that same setup32.exe file and run it, the start-up menu should now have an option to run the game.
8. Re-live that sweet childhood nostalgia.

note: This got the game running for me with some minor graphics issues. The game is absolutely playable, and there may be a way to sort this out, but I'm not sure. If someone finds a fix for that please share!

ps: I've never written a guide like this before but there didn't seem to be a readily accessible answer to a problem that seemed to be shared by everyone. I hope this helps at least one person. Take care,

Addition,, How do I download and play this game on a Macbook pro?

I second ZC's question. I can't get this to run