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OpenRCT2 is a free open-source remake of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. The developers have taken the original game, decompiled it and eventually rewrote everything. This allows developers to extend the gameplay, alter the game, and even port the game to other platforms. At this moment, the game is playable on Windows, Linux, macOS and Android.
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Select your RCT2 game files location. When you launch OpenRCT2 for the first time, OpenRCT2 will try to find your RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 installation. It will check the default locations that RCT2 is typically installed for all known releases. If it is unable to find it, or you have installed it to a different location, OpenRCT2 will show a ...
Quickstart Guide. As OpenRCT2 requires the original RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 game files, it can be a hassle to get it up and running. We will guide step by step for Windows, macOS and Linux. This guide doesn't cover Android. Get RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. If you have a Retail CD copy lying around, you're good to go. Move on to the next part.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Downloading the game (pre-built)
- 3.1 Building prerequisites
- 3.2 Compiling and running
- 4. Contributing
- 4.1 Bug fixes
- 4.2 New features
- 4.3 Translation
- 4.4 Graphics
•1 - Introduction
•2 - Downloading the game (pre-built)
•3 - Building the game
•3.1 - Building prerequisites
•3.2 - Compiling and running
•4 - Contributing
OpenRCT2 is an open-source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (RCT2). The gameplay revolves around building and maintaining an amusement park containing attractions, shops and facilities. The player must try to make a profit and maintain a good park reputation whilst keeping the guests happy. OpenRCT2 allows for both scenario and sandbox play. Scenarios require the player to complete a certain objective in a set time limit whilst sandbox allows the player to build a more flexible park with optionally no restrictions or finance.
RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 was originally written by Chris Sawyer in x86 assembly and is the sequel to RollerCoaster Tycoon. The engine was based on Transport Tycoon, an older game which also has an equivalent open-source project, OpenTTD. OpenRCT2 attempts to provide everything from RCT2 as well as many improvements and additional features, some of these include support for modern platforms, an improved interface, improved guest and staff AI, more editing tools, increased limits, and cooperative multiplayer. It also re-introduces mechanics from RollerCoaster Tycoon that were not present in RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. Some of those include; mountain tool in-game, the "have fun" objective, launched coasters (not passing-through the station) and several buttons on the toolbar.
OpenRCT2 requires original files of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 to play. It can be bought at either Steam or GOG.com. If you have the original RollerCoaster Tycoon and its expansion packs, you can point OpenRCT2 to these in order to play the original scenarios.
OpenRCT2.org offers precompiled builds and installers of the latest master and the develop branch. There is also a Launcher available for Windows and Linux that will automatically update your build of the game so that you always have the latest version.
Flathub offers flatpaks for Linux distributions that support this application distribution system:
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Some Linux distributions offer native packages already. These packages are usually third-party, but we're trying to resolve issues they are facing.
•Arch Linux: openrct2-git (AUR) and openrct2 ([extra] repository)
Windows prerequisites
•Visual Studio 2022 (Enterprise / Professional / Community (Free)) •Desktop development with C++ •MSYS2 MinGW Toolchain. The toolchains with supported dependencies are mingw-x86_64, mingw-xi686, ucrt-x86_64, clang-x86_64, and clang-xi686, each of these require the $MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX and msys and clangarm-64 are lacking packages for some dependencies •sdl2 (only for UI client) •freetype (can be disabled) •fontconfig (can be disabled) •libzip (>= 1.0) •libpng (>= 1.2) •speexdsp (only for UI client) •curl (only if building with http support) •nlohmann-json (>= 3.6.0) •openssl (>= 1.0; only if building with multiplayer support) •icu (>= 59.0) •zlib •gl (commonly provided by Mesa or GPU vendors; only for UI client, can be disabled) •cmake •benchmark (optional) •innoextract (optional runtime dependency; used for GOG installer extraction during setup) •libogg •libvorbis •flac See the wiki for the actual package names used in pacman.
macOS prerequisites
•Xcode Command Line Tools •Homebrew •CMake (available through Homebrew)
Linux prerequisites
•gcc (>= 7.1) or clang (>= 8.0.0) (for C++17 support) •sdl2 (only for UI client) •freetype (can be disabled) •fontconfig (can be disabled) •libzip (>= 1.0) •libpng (>= 1.2) •speexdsp (only for UI client) •curl (only if building with http support) •nlohmann-json (>= 3.6.0) •openssl (>= 1.0; only if building with multiplayer support) •icu (>= 59.0) •zlib •gl (commonly provided by Mesa or GPU vendors; only for UI client, can be disabled) •cmake •innoextract (optional runtime dependency; used for GOG installer extraction during setup) Refer to https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2/wiki/Building-OpenRCT2-on-Linux#required-packages-general for more information about installing the packages.
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1.Check out the repository, this can be done using GitHub Desktop or other tools 2.Open a new Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022 3.Navigate to the repository (e.g. cd C:\GitHub\OpenRCT2) 4.To build the x64 version, use msbuild openrct2.proj /t:build /p:platform=x64 To build the x86 version, use msbuild openrct2.proj /t:build /p:platform=Win32 To build the Arm64 version, use msbuild openrct2.proj /t:build /p:platform=arm64 Note: The file g2.dat may not be generated on cross-compilation (e.g. building for Arm64 on a x64 machine). In this case g2.dat must be copied from a x86/x64 build. 5.Run the game, bin\openrct2 Once you have ran msbuild once, further development can be done within Visual Studio by opening openrct2.sln. Make sure to select the correct target platform for which you ran the build in point #3 (Win32 for the x86 version, x64 for the x64 version, arm64 for the Arm64 version), otherwise the build will fail in Visual Studio. Other examples:
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CMake can build either a self-contained application bundle, which includes all the necessary game files and dependencies, or it can build a command line version that links against system installed dependencies. CMake will retrieve the dependencies from Dependencies automatically. You can build the macOS app using CMake using the following commands: Then you can run the game by opening OpenRCT2.app To build the command line version, you'll need to disable the macOS app bundle: Then you can run the game by running ./openrct2. To link against system dependencies instead of letting CMake download the dependencies from Dependencies, add -DMACOS_USE_DEPENDENCIES=off to your cmake args. Detailed instructions can be found on Building OpenRCT2 on macOS using CMake.
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The standard CMake build procedure is to install the required libraries, then: You can also use Ninja in place of Make using -G Ninja in the first command, if you prefer, see Wiki for details. Detailed instructions can be found on Building OpenRCT2 on Linux. Note: the cmake -S . -B build syntax is available for CMake >= 3.14. For older versions use:
OpenRCT2 uses the gitflow workflow. If you are implementing a new feature or logic from the original game, please branch off and perform pull requests to develop. If you are fixing a bug for the next release, please branch off and perform pull requests to the correct release branch. master only contains tagged releases, you should never branch off this.
Please read our contributing guidelines for information.
A list of bugs can be found on the issue tracker. Feel free to work on any bug and submit a pull request to the develop branch with the fix. Mentioning that you intend to fix a bug on the issue will prevent other people from trying as well.
Please talk to the OpenRCT2 team first before starting to develop a new feature. We may already have plans for or reasons against something that you'd like to work on. Therefore contacting us will allow us to help you or prevent you from wasting any time. You can talk to us via Discord, see links at the top of this page.
You can translate the game into other languages by editing the language files in data/language directory. Please join discussions in the #localisation channel on Discord and submit pull requests to OpenRCT2/Localisation.
You can help create new graphics for the game by visiting the OpenGraphics project. 3D modellers needed!
Oct 7, 2024 · OpenRCT2. OpenRCT2 is a free and open-source recreation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (RCT2) that incorporates some features from the original RollerCoaster Tycoon (RCT1) that were removed in RCT2, while also fixing some issues present in the official games, and incorporating changes seen in RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic (RCTC).
Automatically update OpenRCT2 so you are always running the latest build with all the fixes that go with it. Copy the theme music from Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 into Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 for use in OpenRCT2. Enable seamless syncing of your saves and progress between multiple computers via Dropbox (Requires Admin to setup, computer with most ...
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Dec 7, 2014 · OpenRCT2 is a free and open-source recreation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (RCT2) that incorporates some features from the original RollerCoaster Tycoon (RCT1) that were removed in RCT2, while also fixing some issues present in the official games, and incorporating changes seen in RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic (RCTC). In addition, OpenRCT2 adds several unique features, such as cooperative ...
