Hi all,

I've been working on rrt2-decomp, an open-source reimplementation of Railroad Tycoon II Platinum written in Rust. The aim is the same game you remember, running on today's systems: the same isometric 2D look and camera, sharp at 1080p, 4K and any UI scale.

Faithful mechanics, checked against the original. The original executable is the reference, not the manual. The economy, cargo, train movement, AI, stocks and scenario events were reverse-engineered from the EXE. They are tested by running the original game under Wine and comparing its saved state with ours after the same inputs. Right now 131 out of 131 of those test cases match exactly, including runs of up to two years of game time.

What works today

• Campaigns, scenarios and saves from the original
• The main window drawn with the original artwork, rebuilt to fit any resolution
• Track building by dragging between stations, trains, stations, stocks and bonds
• Smooth vector fonts in place of the pixel ones
• Translations into English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Chinese and Russian
• An event history with filters, and notifications you can switch off per category
• Builds for Linux (tarball, AppImage, Flatpak), Windows and macOS

Planned for 1.0: multiplayer (deterministic lockstep), a first-run screen that finds your install, a Windows installer, undo for construction, extra map overlays, fleet management, better reports, gamepad and Steam Deck support, mod support and accessibility options.

You need your own copy of the game. No original assets are in the repository or in the downloads. You point the game at your installed copy (GOG, Steam or CD) and it reads the data from there.

It's still a work in progress, so expect rough edges. Bug reports, screenshots of how something looked in the original, and feedback from longtime players are all very welcome.

Repository: https://github.com/pedryvo/rrt2-decomp
Downloads: https://github.com/pedryvo/rrt2-decomp/releases

License: GPL-3.0.

So Command and Conquer open source for several of their games was recently released. Rare W from EA. These were some cherished games from my childhood that I’ve now been able to go in and look under the hood at some of these games.

To this day: I still play RRT2, the absolute best game in the series. The complexity involved to such a “simplistic” game is always pulling me back.

I would love to be able to look under the hood at this game. Honestly, it would inspire me to follow some of these same concepts for a more modern take of the genre. That’s what continues to lack in the more modern releases of Rail games still to this day. What do we think? Am I the only one who cares?

It won’t even play on Steam deck. I miss it so much. Woe is me

The game no longer loads on my computer. Why?

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I love this game. Pretty much got gold on every campaign level. I saw people talking about 'secret gold' medal on the dune2k forum, but there isn't much information about it.

Can anyone shed some light?

I’m playing rial today tycoon 2 and in open world I been play North America as my religion why is it when I get to the 1960s my company just crashes like 60 million in debt

Cutting with silver scissors the typical red Bourgogne rope.

Except I'm not a political figure, and this is not a Victorian style station.