Red Alert 2 - Yuri's Revenge

Random enhancements and bug fixes for Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 - Yuri's Revenge

Instructions

• Download the following file and extract it somewhere: https://downloads.cncnet.org/win-builds-for-patching.zip
• Start win-install.bat

Building

Prerequisites

• GNU Make
• MinGW-W64
• NASM
• PETool (itself requiring GCC, make, etc)

On Unix, everything but PETool is installable via your package manager.

On Windows, please install MSYS 2 (a separate project from the original MSYS). MSYS 2 provides a minimal *nix environment, including a port of pacman, the Arch Linux package manager. Once MSYS 2 is installed, installing everything but PETool will be just as easy as on Linux, just do pacman -S <package>.

PETool is a utility made by us to do the patching itself and tie some loose ends. Please git clone its repo too, and run make. PETool is written in C and should be compiled with the native toolchain (Mingw-w64 on windows). Then copy the resulting petool or petool.exe to the directory where you git cloned yr-patches. Finally edit config.mk so it contains the definition:

PETOOL = ./petool

The makefile is designed to accommodate windows users who are not familiar with the command line. Therefore the names of various executables are defined by default to be their makefile names. Unix uses should edit config.mk with linux.config.mk as a guide. This applies only to Engine 2 proper, not PETool.

Instructions

Once everything is installed, just copy your YR executable to this repo under the name ra2/bin.dat, run make, and copy the patched executables back to your game installations. (Make sure to backup your original executables!)

Or if you rather just copy and paste some commands, do:

$ cd /path/to/yuris-revenge/installation
$ cp gamemd.exe gamemd-backup.exe
$ cd /path/to/yr-patches
$ cp /path/to/yr/installation/gamemd.exe ./ra2/bin.dat
$ make
$ cp ra2.exe /path/to/yr/installation/

From the shell (MinGW shell on Windows).

Credits

• Belonit
• Burg
• CCHyper
• dkeeton
• hifi
• Iran
• Rampastring
• Sonarpulse
• secsome
• Starkku
• tomsons26