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https://azmawee.github.io/EmperorReborn/widescreen-story Finally a true widescreen.

Late reply to this thread but figured it was worth bumping, I just released v2.1 of Emperor Reborn with proper Hor+ widescreen support, which based on my research nobody has actually pulled off before for this game. Camera projection patched at the matrix level, UI re-anchored to screen edges, FMV cutscenes pillarboxed separately so they don't get stretched, tested at 1280x720 and the sidebar and minimap stay where they should be, you actually see more of the battlefield rather than the stretched or cropped mess from the old registry hack. Release: github.com/azmawee/EmperorReborn/releases Install guide and FAQ: azmawee.github.io/EmperorReborn Built on wheybags' patch foundation, credit to him for the original Windows compatibility work that made this possible.

Hi FED2K folks, Quick update for anyone following this thread, v2.1 is out now with proper Hor+ widescreen support, which based on what I've found nobody has actually pulled off before for this game. Camera projection patched at the matrix level, UI re-anchored to screen edges, FMV cutscenes pillarboxed separately so they don't get stretched, tested at 1280x720 and the sidebar and minimap stay where they should be, you actually see more of the battlefield rather than the stretched or cropped mess from the old registry hack. Release: github.com/azmawee/EmperorReborn/releases Install guide and FAQ: azmawee.github.io/EmperorReborn For anyone who's tried to get Emperor: Battle for Dune running on Windows 10/11, I've been working on a launcher called Emperor Reborn that addresses the common compatibility issues. It builds on wheybags' patch foundation but adds a few features I wanted personally: - Fullscreen scaling instead of pillarboxing on 4K monitors - DDNS/hostname support for multiplayer (useful if your home IP rotates) - Bundled launcher UI for selecting resolution without editing config files - Self-contained, no VC++ Redist required Release and source: https://github.com/azmawee/EmperorReborn Install guide: https://azmawee.github.io/EmperorReborn/ Same approach as wheybags' original patch: you bring your own game files and the official EA 1.09 patch. Nothing copyrighted is redistributed. If anyone here still plays online multiplayer or wants to test the DDNS handling, I'd appreciate feedback. The Co-op Campaign mode is also restored. Credit to wheybags for the original Windows compatibility groundwork that made this kind of project feasible. Not affiliated with EA or Westwood.

It's in ../data/DATA/saves/ if you are using my launcher. Update for anyone who ran into the small-text problem at high resolution: v2.5 is out and adds exactly this. There are new "Upscale 4K / 2K / 1K, big UI" presets in the launcher. They do the same thing dgVoodoo does, the game renders at a lower resolution and the whole frame is stretched up to fill your screen, so the menus and text get big and stay readable. It is a touch soft up close, same as the dgVoodoo route, since it is the same upscale trick and the game's UI art is fixed-size, there is no high-res UI to draw instead. The difference is that it is built into the launcher, so there is no separate wrapper to install or configure, and it runs alongside the widescreen and HUD fixes out of the box. Your Windows desktop stays at its native resolution the whole time. The number is the render resolution, not your screen, so pick the tier at or below your monitor. On a 4K display "Upscale 2K" is the sweet spot, or "Upscale 1K" if you want the UI even bigger. Grab it here: https://github.com/azmawee/EmperorReborn/releases/latest

version 2.3 released for a true widescreen support, except for videos.

HELL YEAH!!! Does custom multiplayer work too? You know, like LAN? For 8 player matches with bots? Also, this discord has some good stuff on it, check out Morros files. I have a few too, a SFX folder that has more group unit voices: https://discord.gg/PHceUK3x Moro even has a way to allow alliances in skirmish mode, so you can have 2 ordos versus 3 harkonnen versus 3 atreides, for example.

seems redundant. we can simply upgrade the MCV mid-game using new events, or make the hover version the default on a hypothetical archipelago mission like this. pretty sure we can adapt ConYard animations for different MCV types already, too; it's the Harvesters that are locked in to only one docking animation at the moment energy-based technology, like hover engines, are quite commonplace in this new setting and the main new faction there makes frequent use of such things ^^ so I didn't intend to attach some kind of heightened cost to hovertech units. if anything, The Order's hovertech stuff costs so much in ArkDebut because of their firepower lol