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Ares is the next generation of binary-based Command & Conquer modding.
Following the path paved by pd's famous RockPatch, Ares fixes and enhances the Yuri's Revenge game engine in a variety of ways, allowing modders to expand the game with never before seen custom units.
However, unlike RockPatch and other exe patches, Ares does not modify the game's exe. Instead, Ares uses Syringe to inject its code into the game during runtime, leaving the original game unchanged, thus eliminating the need for backup exes or un-patchers.
If, for whatever reason, you wish to download Ares independently anyway, click below.
Ares can be downloaded to the right, however, for ease of distribution and regular updates, it is strongly recommended that all mods using Ares use Launch Base instead.
Launch Base is the next generation mod creator/launcher developed by Marshall, offering one-stop integration and management of mods, plugins and tools for Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge. It has inbuilt Syringe and Ares support including automated updates, making it the cleanest and easiest way to obtain and use Ares.
Just a quick note on the progress of Ares 0.3: The first release candidate has just been released and hopefully the official release will follow soon.
The preliminary documentation is included in the package.
Download: https:/
Hi guys, here is the second maintenance update for Ares 0.2, which improves stability and fixes some bugs. The most important issue was the AI team building problem which could cause the AI from building one type of unit until its base was jammed.
The other bugs are super weapon cameo tooltips being cut off after 31 characters and aircraft using the new PoweredBy logic exploding multiple times when they go offline in air.
As long as no other critical bugs are revealed in Ares 0.2, this should conclude the Ares 0.2 series. Time to look forward...
But until then, have fun with this update!
After about a month of testing, a patch for Ares 0.2 was just released. The urgent issue that couldn't wait for 0.3 was a problem with handling paradropping tanks, which could jam bridges so they became impassable until the end of the game. This has been fixed and now tanks and bridges work as expected.
You can find Ares 0.2p1 in the download section: https:/
Finally, after many months of waiting, Ares 0.2 has been released. You didn't really expect this, did you? Well, here it is.
Before I restate the obvious I'd like to thank all the people who spent countless hours and contributed to Ares since the last release. Your code, comments, documentation, images, videos and bug hunting helped to improve Ares. I know you needed a really deep breath and some ran out of air early. Thank you for your engagement!
Special thanks to DCoder and Renegade, who worked on this project for so long and introduced me to coding for YR in 2010.
Ares 0.2 is the successor to Ares 0.1p1, which was released in June 2010. It fixes many original game bugs, improves performance and adds several new features for modders - way too many to list them all here. Even way too many to list only some of them.
Download the package and find the instructions to run it inside. Ares 0.2 does not overwrite any game files and the original game can still be launched even with Ares installed. If you don't like it, simply delete the files you extracted.
Download: https:/
Documentation: http://
Hello again!
No plans for the distant future to announce yet; first we have to cope with the present.
The number of newly reported bugs is going down, which is good. Only a few changes have been made to Ares since RC1 came out, and all of them have been tested. This should be enough to call it RC2, which can be downloaded now.
The changes include a bugfix for the crash when mind-controlled ships sink and the mind-controller dies as well as some stability improvements. Also, the load and save menu buttons have been disabled for the time being.
If all goes well, this will become the final 0.2 in a few days. Grab your copy quickly and test it while it's still being called RC. Have some fun with it!
Download: https:/
Documentation: http://
By the way: Ares got a subforum at Project Perfect Mod (http://
For general contact, please use the forum. Guest posting is enabled, so registration is not necessary.
Alternatively, or if you need immediate contact, use chat.
If the matter you wish to discuss requires privacy, both chat and the forums offer private messaging functions (the latter requires registration for that).
Do not contact developers personally to make feature requests. Feature requests received that way will be ignored. Instead, file a proper feature request.
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