Grand Theft Auto 2

Contributing

Anyone who wishes to contribute is encouraged to join the project's Discord, where most of the communication happens.

Also, you can find more info about the project (and how to effectively contribute) on GTA2 RE Hub.

When a function won't match, check docs/matching_quirks.md for the MSVC 6 codegen patterns and verifier gotchas found so far.

Building

Prerequisites

• Python >= 3.7
• GTA2_ROOT Environment variable pointing to your GTA2 installation
• Wine (For Linux/Mac)

Clone the repository with the --recursive flag:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/CriminalRETeam/gta2_re.git

Run gta2_data_setup.py, which is located at /Scripts/.

Windows

pip install -r requirements.txt
python vc6_setup.py
python build.py

Linux

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 vc6_setup.py
python3 build.py

Optionally, you can automatically run the built exe by passing one of the following arguments to build.py:

• --run_standalone
• --run_patched

[!IMPORTANT] To use --run_patched, you need the original GTA2 exe (called 10.5.exe) to be within the build_vc6 folder. However, the running script will try to setup it automatically (using the executable downloaded automatically after building for example) so you won't need to do it by yourself: just use --run_patched and it should work. Otherwise you can generate the patched exe yourself by running ExePatcher.exe within the build_vc6 folder.