CNC-Ultimate-Collection-Fixed-Launchers
Fixed launchers for the games in Origin's Command and Conquer: The Ultimate Collection. Re-enables command-line parameters for the games, adds in some missing registry keys, and adds in some community patches automatically. (by Medstar117)
unshieldv3
Extract InstallShield V3 archives (*.Z) (by wfr)
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1.8 | 0.0 | |
almost 4 years ago | about 1 year ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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CNC-Ultimate-Collection-Fixed-Launchers
Posts with mentions or reviews of CNC-Ultimate-Collection-Fixed-Launchers.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-02.
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How to change campaign game speed in YR
Medstar's launcher (Command-Line Parameters Exclusive to The Launchers)
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Red Alert 2 DDRAW.DLL Error code 80070057
There are 3rd party launchers that patches and handles The Ultimate Collection games but those are for the Origin version and I'm not sure if they even work for the EA App version.
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Anyone get any older C&C games running on the SD through EA app yet? (C&C Generals Help)
I've never used it, but maybe this can help you: https://github.com/Medstar117/CNC-Ultimate-Collection-Fixed-Launchers
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A Linux User's Guide to Command & Conquer
Command & Conquer Generals/Zero Hour: Unfortunately, we are now out of the realm of games that can be entirely fixed by a simple EXE swap out of hand. Fortunately, there are still fixes. Like all games in The Ultimate Collection (Ultimately inferior, more like...), Generals is compromised by terrible EA DRM. Unlike RA2, you can't entirely remove it, but for it and all subsequent games I'll discuss, the best way to handle things is to used the Fixed Launchers Installer. This beauty applies registry fixes and replaces the executables with slightly patched versions that remove a bit of that pesky EA DRM. You still need to have Origin installed in the prefix (I tried to avoid that, believe me), but once you've run the fixer, you no longer need to launch the games through Origin (and in fact should avoid doing so), or their launchers, and can just launch the EXEs directly. Furthermore, you don't need to keep Origin running. Oh, and mods work again. So that's all lovely. The other fix required for Renegades and Zero Hour is gentool which is a d3d8.dll replacement (add that to your DLL overrides...) which fixes the multiplayer, allows for playing at higher resolutions, offers rudimentary anticheat for online play (in that it verifies and checksums the loaded content) and so on. Never leave home without it.
unshieldv3
Posts with mentions or reviews of unshieldv3.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-18.
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A Linux User's Guide to Command & Conquer
However, if you're a diehard Linux exclusionist... option 2: Vanilla-Conquer is a project that uses the GPLed code from C&C Remastered to rebuild the original C&C executables with cross-platform support. It works... okay, allegedly, but it would probably work better if I could get it to run: In order to make Vanilla Conquer play nice, you need to have an unmodified install of C&C Gold/Red Alert, as they would have come on-disk: The installs from the CnCNet installers won't cut it. And sure, EA put up those disks for free, you can just download them, but... well, the installers are temperamental at best. I couldn't get an install off the disks because the installer kept complaining that I didn't have the disks inserted. So good luck with that. For Vanilla-Conquer there's no need to use an installer for the classics, OP, just download the free games from CNCNZ.com then extract or mount the extracted .ISO images and copy the assets over using these guides for VanillaTD & VanillaRA respectively, then you extract the files from INSTALL/SETUP.Z for C&C: Gold *(Tiberian Dawn) using either Unshield or InstallShield Extract. And for the two Red Alert expansions I just used good ol' DOSBox to run the PATCH.EXE from both expansion *.ISOs in SETUP/INSTALL/CSTRIKE.RTP for Counterstrike and SETUP/INSTALL/PATCH.RTP for Aftermath to acheive the required *.MIX assets.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing CNC-Ultimate-Collection-Fixed-Launchers and unshieldv3 you can also consider the following projects:
Vanilla-Conquer - Vanilla Conquer provides clean, cross-platform builds of the C&C Remastered Collection and the standalone legacy games.
isextract
cnc-ddraw - GDI, OpenGL and Direct3D 9 re-implementation of the DirectDraw API for classic games for better compatibility with Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11, Wine (Linux/macOS) and Virtual Machines
megutil - A very bad and dumb MEG archive extractor
em-dosbox - An Emscripten port of DOSBox
ts-ddraw - Rewrite of cnc-ddraw with Tiberian Sun as the target
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