Hacking [Release] Vanilla Conquer v0-vita.1 (Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert + freeware data) By NorthFear

[SuperDan]

My first submission for KyûHEN contest.

Vanilla Conquer is first generation C&C engine (that was released as open source last year) that's capable of running both Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert.

You can download it and check instructions on the contests website:

https://kyuhen.customprotocol.com/en/submissions/

Each game has it's own VPK (vanillatd.vpk for Tiberium Dawn and vanillara.vpk for Red Alert). Game data from freeware release is also included.

Source code with a bit more detailed info about port (manual data install, controls, filtering options) is available on GitHub:

https://github.com/Northfear/Vanilla-Conquer-vita

Special thanks to Vanilla Conquer team for maintaining the engine and EA for releasing the source (A surprise to be sure but a welcome one).

Edit. Also available on vitadb:

https://vitadb.rinnegatamante.it/#/info/649

https://vitadb.rinnegatamante.it/#/info/650

 

[Northfear]

If you have any questions or suggestions about the port feel free to ask them here

 

[SuperDan]

If you have any questions or suggestions about the port feel free to ask them here

No questions yet mate I just wanted to say thank you for this I love Some C&Q.... I have still not had a chance to try it on my Vita yet as Im still at work..... Repost this & I will delete mine or get Flame too.. & this is your creative idea! I'm just sharing with the Gbatemp.net crew!

 

[tfocosta]

Cool! @SuperDan thank you for sharing!

@Northfear thanks for the great job!

 

[Northfear]

No questions yet mate I just wanted to say thank you for this I love Some C&Q.... I have still not had a chance to try it on my Vita yet as Im still at work..... Repost this & I will delete mine or get Flame too.. & this is your creative idea! I'm just sharing with the Gbatemp.net crew!

Nah, It's fine. Thanks for sharing!
Here's a hotfix for VanillaTD btw that fixes problem with missing resources
https://github.com/Northfear/Vanilla-Conquer-vita/releases/

 

[SuperDan]

Nah, It's fine. Thanks for sharing!
Here's a hotfix for VanillaTD btw that fixes problem with missing resources
https://github.com/Northfear/Vanilla-Conquer-vita/releases/

Ah awesome I guess I will be the first to ask the question.. Would age of empires be able to run on Ps Vita?
. I never ever was good at age of empires.... But I ued to watch my older brother play it & kinda wished I was good at it too... I'm Great at C&Q tho! & truly loving this port

 

[Northfear]

Ah awesome I guess I will be the first to ask the question.. Would age of empires be able to run on Ps Vita?
. I never ever was good at age of empires.... But I ued to watch my older brother play it & kinda wished I was good at it too... I'm Great at C&Q tho! & truly loving this port

Short answer is "no" unfortunately. There is openage project, but it doesn't looks doable in therms of dependencies.

 

[SuperDan]

Short answer is "no" unfortunately. There is openage project, but it doesn't looks doable in therms of dependencies.

Ah fair enough.. Im terrible at that game anyways.. But for some reason I have a urge to be good at it... Oh well!

 

[Flame]

Great work @Northfear. Good luck with kyuhen

 

[Youffie]

Everytime I launch the game my vita reboot, game was installed as VPK and the 1Gb file was move to Data...

 

[SuperDan]

It's supposed to be in Data!

 

[Youffie]

It's supposed to be in Data!

Exactly. I installed the VPK. And went into the data folder in UX0 and that's where I put the 1Gb file after unzipping it.

Game makes the vita reboot Everytime.

ENSO 3.60
ReFOOD
RePatch
Nonpdrm

Maybe it's because I have vitagrafix and Vitacheat360 installed ?

 

[SuperDan]

Exactly. I installed the VPK. And went into the data folder in UX0 and that's where I put the 1Gb file after unzipping it.

Game makes the vita reboot Everytime.

ENSO 3.60
ReFOOD
RePatch
Nonpdrm

Maybe it's because I have vitagrafix and Vitacheat360 installed ?

Hmm Im Think your game files perhaps>?

 

[Northfear]

Exactly. I installed the VPK. And went into the data folder in UX0 and that's where I put the 1Gb file after unzipping it.

Game makes the vita reboot Everytime.

ENSO 3.60
ReFOOD
RePatch
Nonpdrm

Maybe it's because I have vitagrafix and Vitacheat360 installed ?

That's weird. Try installing it with Vita HomeBrew Browser. It can be really picky about game data, so that's the safest way.

 

[fosamax]

Sorry for bumping a topic for my first post but I just registered to say a big thank you to Northfear for porting Vanilla Conquer to the Vita.
It's a brilliant port that works quite well and offer a nice retro feeling for people that used to play the game in the 90's.
I currently only tried VanillaTD and wanted to give some help for people that would like to translate the game in their own language.
I managed to translate most of the games in French except text menus, mouse over text and sidebar. In fact, it is possible to get those translated by replacing CCLOCAL.MIX but it will cause some translation mismatches and glitches that make the game worse in fact.
The translation is done by replacing every .MIX file from the needed data file by the same file from the french CD/ISO (GDI, NOD, Operation Survie) except CCLOCAL.MIX
You need to keep the same final directory structure as the original data files

Some files are located in GDI or NOD disc, within: INSTALL/SETUP.Z

For extracting those files, you can use Uniextract 1.61

I guess you could try to hex edit the original CCLOCAL.MIX to translate the file in french but it's a tedious work as lots of texts are shorter in english and you can't change texts lenght without screwing everything.

Anyway the game is already quite enjoyable in french that way since briefings FMV, missions's description and objectives and other minor texts are already translated.

Thank you very much Northfear.

PS : May I ask for some minor tweaking in the controls or do you consider the project already finished as is ?

PPS : I noticed a minor error in the port info : Use R1 + D-Pad to create teams (1-4) and D-Pad to select them (same as Ctrl + 1-4 on keyboard). You can use DPad numbers while entering savegame names.

It should be L1 instead R1...

 

[SuperDan]

Sorry for bumping a topic for my first post but I just registered to say a big thank you to Northfear for porting Vanilla Conquer to the Vita.
It's a brilliant port that works quite well and offer a nice retro feeling for people that used to play the game in the 90's.
I currently only tried VanillaTD and wanted to give some help for people that would like to translate the game in their own language.
I managed to translate most of the games in French except text menus, mouse over text and sidebar. In fact, it is possible to get those translated by replacing CCLOCAL.MIX but it will cause some translation mismatches and glitches that make the game worse in fact.
The translation is done by replacing every .MIX file from the needed data file by the same file from the french CD/ISO (GDI, NOD, Operation Survie) except CCLOCAL.MIX
You need to keep the same final directory structure as the original data files

Some files are located in GDI or NOD disc, within: INSTALL/SETUP.Z

For extracting those files, you can use Uniextract 1.61

I guess you could try to hex edit the original CCLOCAL.MIX to translate the file in french but it's a tedious work as lots of texts are shorter in english and you can't change texts lenght without screwing everything.

Anyway the game is already quite enjoyable in french that way since briefings FMV, missions's description and objectives and other minor texts are already translated.

Thank you very much Northfear.

PS : May I ask for some minor tweaking in the controls or do you consider the project already finished as is ?

PPS : I noticed a minor error in the port info : Use R1 + D-Pad to create teams (1-4) and D-Pad to select them (same as Ctrl + 1-4 on keyboard). You can use DPad numbers while entering savegame names.

It should be L1 instead R1...

I will post this to him on Reddit & Twitter..

 

[fosamax]

I will post this to him on Reddit & Twitter..

Thanks

 

[peter8]

@ Northfear & SuperDan :

I have a big problem, hope someone can maybe help out.

I am try to download C&C2 RA since days. Every time I try it the download break up on 98%, the download will not finish. All stuff from the HBrowser works fine. Also the download for C&C1TD works perfect. Just RA will not finish the download.
The original site kyuhen seems not to work anymore and the other mirror from rinnegatamante is the one that breaks up at 98%. I need the DATA file folder. I love the classic C&C. This is very good work, want it in my collection. Thanks to the coder anyway Big PC port an here.

Do you have a backup for me ? Just upload on 1fichier or mega something like that.

 

[SuperDan]

Yeah it's not allowed to share links here or wares for the obvious reasons
But honestly you'll find what you need ON YouTube or Reddit... Sorry that's not super helpful... But it's the house rules I'm afraid

 

[peter8]

Understand.

yeah I had try many download links, but I am end up with same 2 download links, the one dl is dead and the other not working.
Can you confirm that the download break on the HBrowser from rinnegatamante ? Its the only game that make so many trouble. I think the server from rinnegatamante is limited to 1gb, so I fail with RA 1.04GB, the last 20MB gets broken.
EA had release the source code for years, there is no copyright anymore for classic c&c games anyway. But I know the houserules, its fine.

EDIT

Today rinnegatamante has updated the HBrowser with VanillaRA v.0-vita.5 from coder Northfear. The old one was Vita Version4 with the broken download link. So lets check out the new one

EDIT 2

The new version make the same download problem from rinnegatamante. Not Fixed. download break up at 98%.