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ok, redid the mission. I guess that counts as a fix lol. As soon as my conscripts entered Einsteins laboratory i got a 'mission accomplished'. I already had the gas thingies destroyed. And an army rdy to take on allied reinforcements that never came lol. But a win is a win. On to the next mission! The start of the next mission looks pretty cool with all those nuclear reactors.

got it. I replaced the files with that one. I didnt make a difference for my save files at the end sadly. One already had einstein and one was jsut before i mind controlled him. So figured id have to start over anyway. I just keep getting hit by these damn terror drones when i get to the base. Damn units dont target them fast enough so they slaughter everything super quick. - I had a round going perfectly, no losses, and three mind controlled apocalypses. Going great. But before i could make base defenses, an army of terror drones showed up, got by everything i had, and went all the way to the corner where my yuris were hiding and slaughtered them. -_- always hated those little pricks.. Thats been my one main critizem of the series all the back to when i first played ra1. Things not doing what they should do, when they should do it. From telling tanya in ra1 to atk the dog and she jsut walks right up to it and gets eaten. or a v2 launcher in ra1 going right up to a tesla coil before filing -_- .... to units not targeting terror drones, or even yuris walking right up to a unit to control it instead of keeping distance.. Things like that always get me.

i can understand that. The time it happened to me tho, i was only about half way to the base by the time the kirov reached me, which was kinda shocking. - I think the only issue with the timing for a kirov being built is that the virus sniper was the main attacking unit in the start. So i had to wait many times for that virus cloud to dissipate so i dont injure my troops. That can eat up a lot of time. did a try gain last night. Shortly after i got to the base, but before i could build defenses, those damn terror drones showed up and wiped out all my units lol.

i had noticed a few possible glitches in the early moment of this mission as well. One of the attempts when i still only had the starter units, i got hit by a kirov and wiped out. At a point where air units hadnt been gotten yet (before taking the base). - Another spot was as i was approaching the base, i noticed that two of the apocalypse tanks suddenly wernt there. I would usually let my yuris take them cause there good units. Then on the last file (the one that didnt end at the end) when i got to the base, i noticed they just wernt there. I was saddened by that one. well im running 'the first decade'. So its not the original release exactly. Not sure if there is any difference between the two tho. - I do have original ra2 disks tho lol look forward to it. Not sure what the missions are past this one that glitched. Hoping for some nice all out brutality war missions at the end. Like a last stand fight. Mass money, mass room, mass unit, mas destruction. Weve never really had a RA 'mission' like that before. - some versions i saw back in the old client days on online skirmishes.. back when i was still on dial up.. that long ago lol. But it would be cool to see it in mission format.

how does this mission of capturing Einstein end? Iv destroyed all soviet units, and the allied forces to rescue einstine. Brought einstien to the starting spot where that mini airfield looking thing is. But nothing happens.

restart certainly isnt going as well as my first file. Damn kirovs on top of me before i even make it to the base.. Cant fight them with a brute lol

something went wrong with my save file on the mission for capturing Einstein. Now i get the classic internal error and the whole game shuts down. - I can at least load up an earlier save file at the very start of the mission. But still annoying. No idea why that suddenly happened.

My original dl was at C:\Games\Command & Conquer Red Alert(tm) II\RA2 But i copied it over to the desktop to get it running, at; C:\Users\wolfg\Desktop\Games\Command & Conquer Red Alert(tm) II\RA2 As i was typing up how this did not work and it still only showed the normal soviet campaign icon and missions... it finally occurred to me to try copying the files in the Yuri Resurgence PT1 folder (inside the ra2 folder) and pasting them out in the ra2 folder itself. Instead of having them in the folder that was in the ra2 folder. (C:\Users\wolfg\Desktop\Games\Command & Conquer Red Alert(tm) II\RA2\Yuri Resurgence Campaign\Yuri Resurgence PT1) That was how it winziped into the folder. So i copied them and put the files right into the \ra2 folder. And now it seems to work. I was able to load up the first mission. Im looking forward to playing them. But at almost 4am.. i should probably go to sleep for now.. One of my favorite memories was of ra1 as a kid. The final mission of the allies. You start off only seeing little little bit of terrain... Man.. that feeling when the gps satellite went off and i saw the whole map for the first time.. and all that red on there (for soviet enemies) ... i was in shock. All wide eyed. But it was exciting. Since then, for both ra1 and ra2, i always thought it would be so cool to have a second campaign for each side. Where the first one (the ones we have now) that start at low tech level getting up to the big time by then end... and then a second campaign, or second half of the missions, that would start at that big time tech that we end at and jsut get bigger and a harder. I think that would have been awesome and exciting. So im curious to see where these yuri missions go Might not seem that big and bad now a days.. but back then, and at that age... it was the mother of all missions lol

i dl'ed it and unzipped it to the cnc folder. But when i ran it it wouldnt start. Said it doesnt detect 'ultimate collection' .. which is true, cause i have the last decade, not the ultimate collection. i copied the cnc folder and pasted it to the desktop. Which seems like an idiotic suggestion... and it works lol - Im sure theres some techy reason as to why.. but to someone not rly in all that.. it seems crazy' - But hey, YR is loading up form the desktop, so ill take it! So back to the start.. how do i get this yuri campaign working? I had dl'ed the files and unzipped them to Desktop\Games\Command & Conquer Red Alert(tm) II\RA2 (now that its on the desktop) It put a folder 'Yuri Resurgence Campaign' in there. That folder contains two folders inside it. 'Yuri Resurgence PT1' and 'Yuri Resurgence PT2'. And the pic is the files inside those two folders. So first off is it in the right location? And if so, how do i play these missions? It says 'Launch the game,select new campaign for Yuri.' but i dont see any option for selecting yuri in new campaign. Only the normal allies or soviet.

Not sure what the origin version is. But i have the origional ra2 disk, a set of ra2 disk fomr a multi game package, and then the first decade compilation... i ended up with a ton of copies some how lol Im not looking to buy another. If i were, id get one of the games that came out after the first decade (generals zero hour). I still havnt been able to play them yet. would this bibbers launch patch thing work for the first decade?

im sure the cause.. It worked the last time i ran it. Since then, iv added some of those custom maps in the other thread into my maps folder, and iv put this in the directory. And now YR gets that error. Ra2 works fine tho. (The first decade). Running as admin still gets the same error. Running win10 on this laptop. I just removed the folder from the directory and im still getting the error it would seem. The message says 'game exicutables' tho. I havnt messed with anything like that that im aware of. Only adding a few maps, and the campaign form this thread. So im not even sure to what file its referring to. edit: Just went through a few of the games on the first decade. Ra 1 and 2 work fine. YR had the error i showed. And generals 'has tech difficulties' when i tried to load it up... so i dont know what the hell happened. Its a fresh install before adding these maps. And iv used it on many other comps of mine over the years..

i tired unziping the file to the ra2 folder, but now when i try to start yuri revenge (the last decade; installed from disk) i get these two error messages now. (original ra2 still loads up tho.)

There are three maps that rly stand out in my memory from when i used to play multiplayer some 15-20 years ago or what ever it was. Sadly i cant see to find those maps any more. This one i remember the most. Custom map but no mods that i recall. For give the horrible paint job rendition of what i remember the map to look like. (its been a long time...) IT was something like this. It had rows of diamonds (purple) on the sides in triangle shape going down the map. Then the green is just the buildable land. Blue is water obviously. But then it had an island in the center with a capturable airport (i think it was) or some other building like that. - Is possible it could have been a 6 man map. But i think it was 4. Or least i usually played it as 4. I remember playing that map a lot (Either on RA2 or ra2 only enabled?). No land bridge, but a hell of an air and naval war. Always trying to rush to the center island to capture the building and make a mini base there to give you a little advantage. I dont recall its name or much else... id love to see it again tho. Iv dl'ed a lot of the map packs in the other thread but i still havnt come across this one yet... So ima milk carton it... Have you seen this map?

all the maps that show up in the list in game are in a completely random order it looks like. Is there any way to sort how they show up? Even if its just alphabetical order..

looks like the mo and reborn ones were already in the custom folder. I didnt even notice. Easy to lose track with so many files. I placed one of those random character named files in the maps folder, as well as a xmp. But neither showed up in the list of available maps when i loaded up the client. So i didnt bother putting the others of the same kind in. (edit: or it shows up in the map list as something completely different as i cant tell.) So now i jsut got .par .yro .mmx, application files, and those winzip ones left. Its gettin there'

first pic came up quite small.. not sure if these will be better

ok.. i transferred a lot more maps. These are the ones i didnt transfer over to the custom maps folder. (.map files) I wasnt sure if it was a good idea for not. A lot of random-multi character named files, and some i thought might be from some kind of campaign or something? I wasnt sure, so i didnt move them. Figured id ask about them first. and this little bit form another dl.

the png (at least some) do look like mp previews. Do i still add these png files to the custom maps folder? Or do i copy the .map file over and thats it? So how do i add these to the game? Can all the files jsut be thrown into the custom maps folder? Or does each one need a sub folder with its respective fiels in it for that map/mission? For example; I just unziped one of the files. 'dryheatsoviet' which gave me arosovsu.yrm and ra2md.csf would they be thrown in the customs maps folder separately and the game can figure it out. Or should those two be in a single folder and that folder put in the custom maps fo.lder?

ok. I got a bulk file hanger working well enough and i started downloading a lot of those map packages in the other thread. But now i have many questions about that as well. ^This is from the 'More Unsorted RA2YR Maps' dl. What are these .mmx extensions? And whats with the applications in there as well? Same dl as the fiest pic, inside that 'YRArgentina.com Maps' folder. What are all these files needing winzip? The first dl i did was just all maps. Nothing else. Nice and simple. Im not sure about all these tho. And more .mmx Continuing question form last pic. Same folder. I assume the files listed in the help window there are whats inside hat specific file/folder. What do i do with these .csf .gif .txt? And way do so many of those folders all have 'all01umd.map' in them? what do i do with all these .png files? i assume the ones that are duplicates jsut in differnet extensions (like peddlers.yrm and peddlers.map) i can jsut copy the .amp and ignore the .yrm? And convert the ones that have only .yrm over to .map Unsure about the png again tho. not even sure what to make of these...? Lotta questions i know. But i didnt see this listed in that sticky thread for all the map dl's.. and id like to get them all working.

any specific ones good? I havnt rly had a need to change extensions before. hey, you callin me old!? Just because i played ra2 on westwood servers.. as a teen.... on dial up... ah shit.... -_-

i do like new and interesting maps. So the map packages seem a good place to start. ( i would also love to find a very specific map again. I played it lot as a teen, but i dont recall its name anymore). Is there any way to change all the extensions at once or at least quicker? There are thousands of maps in those files. cant say i want to go one by one.. im also curious... if they all have to be .map then why wasnt the map packages listed with .map to begin with? Seem odd that every single person would have to change thousands of extensions manually. ?

i tried changing a few of the maps in C:\Games\Command & Conquer Red Alert(tm) II\RA2\Maps\Custom over to .map to see. the .mdr and .yrm that were changed to .map seemed to work normally. So that part is good. the .yro did not show up however. Not sure whats up with them. And the ones that are already .map (which are the ones that showed up with a black preview like the pic in the OP) would load up and immediately have an error and shut down. So the majority form the package are .mpr and .yrm so i guess that means i could get the majorit of them working.... but the first package alone was 1137 maps... is there any way to change them all or change a bunch at once? Changing the extension one by one by one.... would take an eternity.

They are in C:\Games\Command & Conquer Red Alert(tm) II\RA2\Maps\Custom which is a folder created when i installed 'The first decade'. The 'cncnet' folder doesnt have anything like that for ra2 to put anything into. that map pack was 1137 maps.. im supposed to go through and change every single one?

how do i get these map packages working? I finally was able to replace the hdd on this machine and can play this again. I installed 'the first decade' on C:\Games as well as cncnet. I tried dl'ing one of the 1137 map packages and placing them in C:\Games\Command & Conquer Red Alert(tm) II\RA2\Maps\Custom but i dont rly see anything new when i go in. I do see 16 maps in 'standard' that might be new, i dont recall. But they have no map preview so i cant see what they are. I did notice that some of the files are map, mpr, yrm and 13 are yro. Not sure if that matters. Im guessing changing that number of files to .map isnt whats needed manually.. thats quite a lot. Just like to get these working and see some new/fun maps.

so how do i get these map packages working? I finally was able to replace the hdd on this machine and can play this again. I installed 'the first decade' on C:\Games as well as cncnet. I tried dl'ing one of the 1137 map packages and placing them in C:\Games\Command & Conquer Red Alert(tm) II\RA2\Maps\Custom but i dont rly see anything new when i go in. I do see 16 maps in 'standard' that might be new, i dont recall. But they have no map preview so i cant see what they are. I did notice that some of the files are map, mpr, yrm and 13 are yro. Not sure if that matters. Just like to get these working and see some new/fun maps.