GenPatcher and GenTool Updates for Recent TUC Builds

The latest versions of Command & Conquer: The Ultimate Collection were published with new executables, which naturally caused incompatibility with several community tools, among them the irreplaceable GenPatcher and GenTool. However, their developers were quick enough to develop tweaked builds so everyone is on the same page. GenPatcher, the one-stop patching tool for fresh Generals…

By Plok 29 March 2024 Off

26 Years And Counting

Posting anniversary posts is bittersweet these days. On one hand, I’ve received some feedback in the past few months from game researchers who are glad that a center of information for the Command & Conquer franchise still exists, but on the other… the community is just not there anymore. A few long-standing mods get updated,…

By Plok 27 October 2023 Off

Command & Conquer Promotional VHS Digitized

 Resident C&C collectors have caught wind of a promotional VHS tape for the original Command & Conquer that was shown in stores before the game’s release (as evidenced by the stated May 1995 release date, which ended up being pushed to September), and features various footage and explanations from the developers themselves. The shown…

By Plok 19 February 2023 Off

25 Years Online

Anniversaries have a tendency to creep up on one. It’s a big one this time – this very site is 25 years online, maintaining its position as oldest English-speaking (and second-oldest in general, behind only the French CnCSaga) Command & Conquer fansite still up. Times have definitely changed for the franchise in these 25 years.…

By Plok 27 October 2022 Off

C&C Remastered Collection Patch 745903.1 Released

Yet another surprise patch for the Command & Conquer: Remastered Collection has arrived yesterday, reporting ingame as 745903.1. It’s a small one, with the differential download “weighing” a mere 112 KB on Steam, and features new digital signatures in the executable and main DLLs, as well as fixed support for Intel Xe Graphics chipsets on…

By Plok 19 July 2022 Off

GenPatcher 2.0 Released

After a successful first version, GenPatcher 2.0 has finally arrived. As before, this tool streamlines the installation, patching and configuring process for C&C Generals and Zero Hour on modern systems, implementing multiple fixes at once and tackling pretty much all known causes for problems in setting the game up. This new version, which had been…

By Plok 24 March 2022 Off

First Sole Survivor Servers in 20 Years In Development

On 1 January 2002, official Sole Survivor servers on (the now also former) Westwood Online were shut down, leaving the series’ first multiplayer-centric title without a way to play online. Only repetitive 15-minute deathmatches against AI opponents have been available to us since then. A small group of community members (OmniBlade, CCHyper, tomsons26) have taken…

By Plok 24 January 2022 Off