ATTENTION: THIS PATCH IS ONLY VALID FOR THE JAPANESE VERSION OF "ANNO 1602"

Caution: These version of ANNO 1602 requires DIRECTX 6.0 or higher.
You can download DIRECTX 6 at: http://www.microsoft.com/directx/

The following mistakes have been removed:

1. After the saving and reloading of a game, natives did not have any needs or supply of goods.

2. It was not possible to buy ships from the computer player.

3. If, accidently, piers were built at the same place several times, their costs were deducted only once.

4. Under certain circumstances, it could happen that all of a sudden 2000 tons of goods were stored in your warehouse.

5. Pirates could not be smoothed by paying them protection money.

6. With some PCI-Soundcards the speech output stuttered.

7. At an advanced stage of the game, it sometimes happened, that the current workload of the farms had dropped, although all the fields were ready for harvest.

8. The number of possible sources of raw materials has been doubled.

These features have been changed:

9. The number of possible production sites was set higher.
It´s now possible to build more than 2000.

10. Update to DIRECTPLAY 6

11. Stuttering speech output on machines faster than 400MHz was fixed.

Rising to the occassion, we would like to apologize for any mistakes in the game and any inconveniences caused by them. We would also like to thank all those customers, who have drawn our attention to those mistakes and who have kept waiting for this patch patiently.