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Someone mind explaining how to play past 10 billion years in the SNES version? I sped it up in an emulator and it just went back to the menu.

Species
Does anyone have a species(not the classes, but the species inside the classes) list? I have the game, but I want to know the name of what I'm evolving! Is there a way to see that in-game or in an off-game resource? --Andrelvis 16:52, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Reply: Species
I think the Dictionary (SNES version) or the Help file (Windows version) has that stuff. I have both, and I find the SNES version to be far more extensive (with better graphics in my opinion) than the PC/Windows one.Stovetopcookies 05:19, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

How about this?

 * This doesn't really need a list of every phylum, since it pretty much lists all the major ones. So, I'm going to remove that stuff and fix up the "trichordate" section.  Though what is a trichordate?  By Googling it, it seems exclusive to SimEarth?  Also, I removed a sentence that definitely looked like original research ("A small number of mysterious fossils seem to exhibit trilateral symmetry...").  You should to cite a reliable source for that piece of analytic information if you wish to re-add it.  Wickethewok 16:53, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

New Version
Any idea if Maxis intends to make a new version to take advantage of better technology? Maybe a little more user friendly?

Yeah. It's called spore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.29.161.21 (talk) 04:34, 22 January 2008 (UTC)


 * No it's not spore.98.165.16.149 (talk) 03:27, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Dolphins are not fish
This article says that Cetaceans are fish. They are not. Cetaceans are the order of whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

public domain?
was this ever released as "free software"? 68.47.130.92 (talk) 16:19, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

System requirements
The system requirements in the right-side box currently say "Windows 3.1" - which is patently incorrect. The game was released in 1990 for MS-DOS, Win3.1 came out in 1992. 91.33.253.144 (talk) 08:05, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Copy protection
The article states that this is the first of the Sim.* games to feature copy protection where you had to look something up. I distinctly remember SimCity having that red sheet of paper with city populations that you had to type in to play. Is there some distinction I am forgetting? The article says "in game" copy protection. Did SimEarth have you enter it in in the middle of playing, as opposed to at the beginning only? That seems vaguely possible, but it has been a really long time since I played this game. 76.19.132.58 (talk) 04:44, 24 June 2009 (UTC)


 * It's right: The PC version of SimCity had this red paper sheet you mentioned. So I removed the wrong part. -- 79.239.15.220 (talk) 10:29, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Taxa
1) Fish is not a taxon, its a grade. While the game may refer to fish as a unit, it should not be called a taxon.  If Osteichthyes is what is actually meant, it should say so. 2) Birds, as a taxon, should be called Aves. 3) How is Aves more well known than Cetacea? I would think a whale is a familiar animal to most people.

--69.209.73.48 (talk) 15:18, 30 March 2010 (UTC)