FunkyFr3sh Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Hurry up! This offer is only available for a very limited amount of time! Get it here: https://www.origin.com/en-ie/store/free-games/on-the-house Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Oh, nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkey Wilkey Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 is there any differences between that and regular RA2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 is there any differences between that and regular RA2? I believe not, pure original RA2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkey Wilkey Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 so I can patch it whatever I want? seems like it requires origin to launch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plokite_Wolf Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 so I can patch it whatever I want? seems like it requires origin to launch It's pre-patched. If you want to use mods or run parameters (such as windowed mode), you'll need to disable Origin functionality for the game and use the fixed TUC launchers. http://bibber.eu/downloads/cnc-ultimate-collection-launchers/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 It requires Origin, yes, but that doesn't change the fact the game is functionally 100% the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LavenderMoon Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 I'm now another step closer to owning every* C&C game twice over. *Except Sole Survivor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fir3w0rx Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Everytime I look at my C&C *Ultimate* Collection, I smh ; People that aren't even paid for their C&C related work, have never worked for Westwood or EA, no inside knowledge or material such as source codes or any official coding documentation, lack of spare time - have done a waaay better job than those who have all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsons26 Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 no inside knowledge or material such as source codes or any official coding documentation, lack of spare time - have done a waaay better job than those who have all that. They don't have any of that either, EA lost Westwood source codes till Renegade and assets somewhere in transit when they were moving Westwood stuff to EA LA after they shut down Westwood. This was confirmed by Louis Castle Further proof is that the mixes in TFD and that would also mean in TUC were edited with XCC Mixer (as it leaves a local database for filenames when saving in the mix) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkey Wilkey Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 They don't have any of that either, EA lost Westwood source codes till Renegade and assets somewhere in transit when they were moving Westwood stuff to EA LA after they shut down Westwood. I don't think so. they edited .exes for ultimate collection to add their copy protection crap, how would they do it without a source? don't even think they hex-edited or decompiled it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plokite_Wolf Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 I don't think so. they edited .exes for ultimate collection to add their copy protection crap, The copy protection was already there, they just removed the dependency on the disc. how would they do it without a source? don't even think they hex-edited or decompiled it Yeah, and you of all people KNOW that they didn't decompile it enough to do so. Yeah. All the proof is there. :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsons26 Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 They don't have any of that either, EA lost Westwood source codes till Renegade and assets somewhere in transit when they were moving Westwood stuff to EA LA after they shut down Westwood. I don't think so. they edited .exes for ultimate collection to add their copy protection crap, how would they do it without a source? don't even think they hex-edited or decompiled it They did actually do hex edits, they just added all the known community hex patches in TFD. Really really really really easy, SafeDisc protected application launching functions like this : There is a launcher, that does its magic voodoo protection stuff and then if all is ok it launches the actual game exe and tells it that the game was launched from the launcher and thus the game proceeds to start, else game instantly closes if it doesn't get that OK to start. All you need to do is make a new launcher exe that tells the game exe that same thing. Since EA would still have the SafeDisc integration source code they know what needs to be feed to the game exe. And thats exactly all EA did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkey Wilkey Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 thank you for explaining, I thought integrating of origin was a bit harder. well, I was wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 They did actually do hex edits, they just added all the known community hex patches in TFD. Um. All these patches only started appearing after TFD, tomsons. I discussed this issue with the community manager over mail, and basically they couldn't add any of those, because then they would become "official patches", and then they had to guarantee that they actually worked, and they couldn't guarantee any such thing on community-made hacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plokite_Wolf Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 But if you gave them full documentation on your changes (which shouldn't be a problem for you, Nyer), would they have accepted that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fir3w0rx Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Um. All these patches only started appearing after TFD, tomsons. I discussed this issue with the community manager over mail, and basically they couldn't add any of those, because then they would become "official patches", and then they had to guarantee that they actually worked, and they couldn't guarantee any such thing on community-made hacks. You should have asked him while interviewing him (or told Koen to ask him), it's harder to say 'no' in person http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYhTxV4hAcw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsons26 Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 To clear out the recompiled updated for newer systems myth, well rather EA PR stunt here is a bin diff and internal EXE compilation timestamp If if was a new exe compiled from the sources there wouldn't be minor byte differences, in fact i couldn't really diff it in a hex editor at all, all would be different, you would need to do a disassembly level comparison to see what has changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 You should have asked him while interviewing him (or told Koen to ask him), it's harder to say 'no' in person Different community manager. That was Apoc, in the TFD days. And Apoc was all for including fan patches, but it was blocked from higher up. Remember, these guys are mostly just the public face of the franchise. They can offer suggestions, but they don't get to make the decisions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Was it a CnCNet initiative to get EA to release this for free (on their terms)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunkyFr3sh Posted September 19, 2015 Author Share Posted September 19, 2015 Was it a CnCNet initiative to get EA to release this for free (on their terms)? No, they always offer random free games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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