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diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..99b6dd7ebf45 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +ONLINE MULTIPLAYER + +To play online multiplayer (EA passed support of this service to XWIS): + 1. Run the game + 2. At the Main Menu click Internet. After a series of messages you will be + at the username creation screen. + 3. XWIS allows you to ignore the 'New Account' button. Enter any username, + and a password 8 characters long. + 4. Select your country location and desired server, then hit OK. You + should be taken to the main online lobby where you can join/create games + if users are online. +For more information visit http://xwis.net/forums/index.php/topic/168665-tiberian-sun-readme-first/ + + +LAN MULTIPLAYER + +Tiberian Sun's LAN Multiplayer natively uses IPX. To replace this with UDP, a replacement binary is required. Download ts_ra2_lanpatch_1_00.zip and place wsock32.dll in the game's SUN/ directory (under $HOME/.tiberiansun/). Note that this patch will break online multiplayer, but it can simply be removed to restore that functionality. + +One potential source of the patch zip: http://digiex.net/downloads/download-center-2-0/games/3423-tiberian-sun-red-alert-2-lan-patch.html + + +GAME SERIALS + +An unfortunate oversight of EA, when they released the game as freeware, was forgetting about the multiplayer mode's check on game serials. When more than two people join a game, they have to have unique serial numbers. Fortunately, there is a way around this, however it requires downloading a utility released by a software cracking group. + +Razor 1911 released rzrtsfix.zip in 1999. This zip contains an executable that will set a random serial number for your game. Read the NFO file in the zip for more information. + +One potential source of the serial zip (caution, this is not the safest site on the internet): http://gf.wiretarget.com/tiberian_sun.htm +Scroll to the bottom and download the link labelled "Serial Changer Done by Razor 1911" + +To execute the utility properly, extract the executable somewhere, cd into the SUN/ directory (under $HOME/.tiberiansun/), and run the following: +WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.tiberiansun/tiberiansun" WINEARCH="win32" wine $pathToUtility |