em-dosbox VS CNC-Ultimate-Collection-Fixed-Launchers

Compare em-dosbox vs CNC-Ultimate-Collection-Fixed-Launchers and see what are their differences.

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)
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em-dosbox

Posts with mentions or reviews of em-dosbox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-12.

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.
  • How to change campaign game speed in YR
    2 projects | /r/commandandconquer | 2 Dec 2022
    Medstar's launcher (Command-Line Parameters Exclusive to The Launchers)
  • Red Alert 2 DDRAW.DLL Error code 80070057
    2 projects | /r/commandandconquer | 17 Nov 2022
    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.
  • Anyone get any older C&C games running on the SD through EA app yet? (C&C Generals Help)
    1 project | /r/SteamDeck | 6 Nov 2022
    I've never used it, but maybe this can help you: https://github.com/Medstar117/CNC-Ultimate-Collection-Fixed-Launchers
  • A Linux User's Guide to Command & Conquer
    9 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 18 Apr 2021
    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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing em-dosbox and CNC-Ultimate-Collection-Fixed-Launchers you can also consider the following projects:

86Box - Emulator of x86-based machines based on PCem.

Vanilla-Conquer - Vanilla Conquer provides clean, cross-platform builds of the C&C Remastered Collection and the standalone legacy games.

QEMU - Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

isextract

pcem - PCem

megutil - A very bad and dumb MEG archive extractor

dosbox-staging - DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices.

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

scummvm - ScummVM main repository

unshieldv3 - Extract InstallShield V3 archives (*.Z)

winevdm - 16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on 64-bit Windows

ts-ddraw - Rewrite of cnc-ddraw with Tiberian Sun as the target