Download vanillatd.vpk or vanillara.vpk file from https://github.com/Northfear/Vanilla-Conquer-vita/releases. Install it to your PS Vita.
Copy content of installed Tiberium Dawn game folder into to ux0:data/VanillaTD/ or installed Red Alert folder into ux0:data/VanillaRA/.
Check Vanilla Conquer Wiki for more info about required folder/file structure and game versions compatibility:
expand.mix, expand2.mix, hires1.mix files that are required for RA expansions can be aquired from 3.03 patch.
rePatch reDux0 OR FdFix plugin may be required for proper suspend/resume support (only use one at a time).
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=$VITASDK/share/vita.toolchain.cmake -DVITA=true -DNETWORKING=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None
makeDebug output can be previewed with psp2shell
https://github.com/Cpasjuste/psp2shell
Use L1 + 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.
Left analog stick can be used for both cursor movement (good for building or precise movement) or map scrolling (useful during combat when you're giving command with a touchpad). Cursor movement mode is default. To switch between both modes use R1 + L1 + START key combination.
You can change cursor movement speed by editing ControllerPointerSpeed option under [Mouse] section inside conquer.ini/redalert.ini files.
You can also control cursor movement with rear touchpad. To do so set RearTouchEnabled option to yes. You can change its speed with RearTouchSpeed option.
Config files for VanillaTD and VanillaRA are located at ux0:data/VanillaTD/vanillatd/conquer.ini and ux0:data/VanillaRA/vanillara/redalert.ini.
To preserve original aspect ratio set Boxing=yes option.
If you want to display the game at native resolution without any scaling set ScaleGameSurface=no ([Vita] section).
Game supports nearest and linear filtering. Nearest is used by default and it produces sharp, but pixelated image (that's especially noticeable on text). Linear is smooth, but somewhat blurred. To select linear filtering set Scaler option to linear
[Video]
Scaler=linearChange it back to nearest to select nearest filtering again.
Vanilla Conquer is a fully portable version of the first generation C&C engine and is capable of running both Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert on multiple platforms. It can also be used for mod development for the Remastered Collection.
The main focus of Vanilla Conquer is to keep the default out-of-box experience faithful to what the games were back when they were released and work as a drop-in replacement for the original executables while also providing bug fixes, compatiblity and quality of life improvements.
Current project goals are tracked as GitHub issues with the goal label.
There are rooms on multiple platforms for discussion:
All of these rooms are bridged together so people can choose their preferred service. Please be nice to each other.
We support wide variety of compilers and platforms to target. Vanilla Conquer is known to compile with recent enough gcc, MSVC, mingw-w64 or clang and known to run on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSDs.
The following components are needed to build Vanilla Conquer executables:
Extract SDL2 and OpenAL somewhere you know. If you are building only Remastered dlls you can skip installing SDL2 and OpenAL.
In a VS command line window:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DSDL2_ROOT_DIR=C:\path\to\SDL2 -DOPENAL_ROOT=C:\path\to\OpenAL
cmake --build .This will build Vanilla Conquer executables in the build directory. If you are building Remastered dlls you need to configure cmake with -A win32 and ensure your VS command line is x86.
On Debian/Ubuntu you can install the build requirements as follows:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install g++ cmake libsdl2-dev libopenal-dev
or
sudo apt-get install g++ cmake libsdl1.2-dev libopenal-devmkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j8This will build Vanilla Conquer executables in the build directory.
Binary releases of the latest commit are available from here, which is updated whenever new code is merged into the main branch.
Copy the Vanilla executable (vanillatd.exe or vanillara.exe) to your legacy game directory, on Windows also copy SDL2.dll and OpenAL32.dll.
For Tiberian Dawn the final freeware Gold CD release (GDI, NOD) works fine.
For Red Alert the freeware CD release works fine as well. The official Red Alert demo is also fully playable. The demo supports custom skirmish maps (except interior) and includes one campaign mission for both Allied and Soviet from the retail game.
While it is possible to use the game data from the Remastered Collection, The Ultimate Collection or The First Decade they are currently not supported. Any repackaged version that you may already have from any unofficial source is not supported. If you encounter a bug that may be data related like invisible things or crashing when using a certain unit please retest with the retail data first before submitting a bug report.
The build process will produce _VanillaTD and _VanillaRA directories in your build directory if you enable them with -DBUILD_REMASTERTD=ON and -DBUILD_REMASTERRA=ON.
These work as mods for the Remastered Collection.
To manually install a local Remastered mod, launch both games once then head to My Documents/CnCRemastered/CnCRemastered/Mods. You should see Tiberian_Dawn and Red_Alert directories.
Copy the _VanillaTD directory to the Tiberian_Dawn directory.
The directory structure should look like this:
My Documents/CnCRemastered/CnCRemastered/Mods/Tiberian_Dawn/Vanilla_TD/Data/TiberianDawn.dll
My Documents/CnCRemastered/CnCRemastered/Mods/Tiberian_Dawn/Vanilla_TD/ccmod.json
My Documents/CnCRemastered/CnCRemastered/Mods/Tiberian_Dawn/Vanilla_TD/GameConstants_Mod.xmlYou should now see the new mod in the mods list of Tiberian Dawn Remastered.
Copy the _VanillaRA directory to the Red_Alert directory.
The directory structure should look like this:
My Documents/CnCRemastered/CnCRemastered/Mods/Red_Alert/Vanilla_RA/Data/RedAlert.dll
My Documents/CnCRemastered/CnCRemastered/Mods/Red_Alert/Vanilla_RA/ccmod.jsonYou should now see the new mod in the mods list of Red Alert Remastered.