The Past Ain't What It Used To Be... The first Command & Conquer received its last official update on the 21st of June, 1996. Since then, the game has been ported to Windows (as "Gold" version), and re-released in the big "The First Decade" collection pack, but has never received any more bug fixes. The C&C Gold Patch 1.06 project aims to bring this classic into the new millennium, by fixing the old bugs, supporting higher resolutions, and adding new modding and mapping possibilities. It also contains an addon-based language system, allowing anyone to create translation packs for the game.
This shows how a new music track is added simply by adding it into themes.ini, the new music control file. This file can be extracted from updatec.mix using XCC Mixer. Mods can define a different filename for their music settings file, so a loose themes.ini in the game folder won't interfere with the mod. This custom filename system for mods will be implemented for all rules files.
This track was implemented by adding a new entry to the end of the themes list, and then defining its information below. Another feature implemented for this is the custom name; normally, any new themes should need a name added into the game's strings file. This is no longer needed; the game can now read a name directly from the ini.
[Themes]
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(original themes)
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40=WAR
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(original themes settings)
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[WAR]
NameID=0
FirstMission=0
Length=149
ShowInPlaylist=Yes
HasAlternate=No
AlternateLength=0
Name=War's Never Been So Much Fun
The full version of the themes.ini can be viewed here:
Nyerguds.arsaneus-design.com
"War's Never Been So Much Fun"
Nice Cannon Fodder ref ya got there.