Comments - Denji

First off, in the data folder, change the Scripts folder to Scripts1.

Rename !Contra009Final.ctr to !Contra009Final.big

Rename !Contra009Final_EN.ctr to !Contra009Final_EN.big

Rename !Contra009Final_NatVO.ctr to !Contra009Final_NatVO.big (for native languages for units)
OR rename !Contra009Final_EngVO.ctr to !Contra009Final_EngVO.big if you want English unit voices.

Rename !Contra009Final_NewMusic.ctr to !Contra009Final_NewMusic.big if you want new soundtracks

Same things apply to the patch files.
!!Contra009Final_Patch1.ctr to
!!Contra009Final_Patch1.big

It's all basically the same.

Yes it does work with Origin. I have the Origin version and it works for me. Just don't use the launchers, put the Contra files in the Zero Hour directory with the rest of the game files and rename the file type to .big

Launch the game normally and the game will load the mod. You can run just about any mod if all you have to do is place the .big files in the directory.

Any GLA that isn't stealth on all skirmish and challenge maps.

Look for a file called Rank.ini
Place in Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour/Data/INI

Rank 1
On the line SciencePurchasePointsGranted = (change the value to 99) so it'll look like this SciencePurchasePointsGranted = 99

After that, set every rank's skillpointsneeded line to 1 like this SkillPointsNeeded = 1

After your first encounter, you'll have every skill unlocked and the points to spend them. CPU gets it too, so the payment would be they'll come at you hard and fast with their generals powers the moment they get their rank up.

If you're playing against a friend online, make sure to give them the exact Rank.ini you have or it won't work.

Hope this helps.

I play the same way. I had to edit some things in Challenge Mode just to balance out the BS. They still need to fix the balancing problems. Insta-rush is for speed run players that are too busy worrying about the clock and don't care about the game. It literally ruins the fun and you're practically breaking the game itself.

Because they're not very good with balancing factions.

Lots of factions in this mod are so unbalanced when it comes to Challenge Mode. I can only complete the full campaign with Nuke, Cyber and Super Weapons because they're overpowered to the gills. Everything else hits a serious road block and gets crushed no matter what I do. Everything else outside of those specific factions seem to be insignificant to only a small amount of units.

For example, you can throw any numbered wave of Tank General's tanks and Super Weapon's basic defenses will eat it for breakfast. Can't send any planes in because they get eaten too. You can't throw anything the Tank General has at Super Weapon General and if you do manage to get something, you're barely scratching a building and you're up against super dozers that can out repair a MF'ing Particle Cannon strike.

You just need to copy the .big files to the main ZH directory, load it up normally. The .big files will override the original and load up the mod. So long as any mod just consists of placing .big files, it'll work. Any mod that requires a launcher will not work.

Actually, you don't need "fixed launchers" that won't work anyways with Origin (they've never worked for me and some have trojans). Any mod works so long as you place the .big files into the Generals/ZH directory where all the game files are. You'll load it up normally without a launcher, but the mod kicks in as the game loads.

Yet you acknowledged Super Weapon General was overpowered.

Yeah, I had the same problem after I uninstalled Shockwave. It doesn't replace certain files. It won't even load Challenge Mode properly in vanilla.

Flame General is PAPER to Super Weapon General.
It's f**king dumb.

Big extractor, World Builder.
Edit the starting money scripts.
That's how I get around cheating AI BS.

Technical difficulties error just a few minutes into the Demolition General, playing as Cyber General.

It does start to lag after a while during the mission. Sometimes, it didn't lag at all, but it still didn't end.

The only voice that's annoying is Alexander's super unit. Nothing like playing the game and suddenly you hear this loud "RING RING RING AROUND AROUND AROUND THE THE THE ROSIE ROSIE ROSIEEEEE"

I'm often getting game crashes when I beat the Demolition General in challenge mode when it says "You Won, You Are Awesome". No errors, the game just dies and I can't ALT/TAB out of it.

When it doesn't crash completely, there's a long delay before the continue screen shows up and it acts as if the game crashed. Demolition General is the only one that has this problem.

I was just playing as the Tank General. Complete BS.

Getting lots of Technical Difficulties errors while trying to play Skirmish mode.

Seriously, again...

Loading Tournament City in Skirmish kills the game at the loading screen and force reset or shutdown of the PC is the only way out of it. Tried it with a different general, same thing. Your mod doesn't load the map. Are you going to fix this?

Skirmish
Tournament City
Playing as Cybernetic General
Opponents set to Random

Game dies at loading screen, twice in a row. Can't Alt/Tab out, forced to restart PC.

Loaded up a Skirmish match on Death Valley, got a "Technical difficulties" crash when those GLA building destroying tractors got my Cyber war factory at about 15 minutes into the game. First time trying it and already a crash.

Manual installation instructions for those having problems with launcher:
I want to emphasize that for these steps you MUST NOT use the Contra Launcher. Many people don't read carefully and fail to install the mod.
1. Put all files from the "Contra009Final" archive into your Zero Hour folder (NOT the one in My Documents).
2. Rename !Contra009Final.ctr to !Contra009Final.big.
3. Rename !Contra009Final_EN.ctr to !Contra009Final_EN.big OR rename !Contra009Final_RU.ctr to !Contra009Final_RU.big if you want Russian language.
4. Rename !Contra009Final_NatVO.ctr to !Contra009Final_NatVO.big OR rename !Contra009Final_EngVO.ctr to !Contra009Final_EngVO.big if you want English unit voices.
5. Rename !Contra009Final_NewMusic.ctr to !Contra009Final_NewMusic.big if you want new soundtracks, otherwise the game will play the vanilla ones.
6. Rename Scripts folder to Scripts1 (which is located inside Data folder).
7. Start the game from generals.exe (NOT Contra Launcher.exe)!

There are instructions to rename the files to .big. That's how you get around the Origin thing. Copy and paste them there, load up the game normally and it'll load Contra.

Mods work for Origin's version if you just place the .big files in the directory. Other than that, the only launcher that has worked for me was Shockwave.

Wanted my first game of 2019 to be with the Contra mod, but I can't download anything and Mod DB keeps saying "check back in 5 minutes" for something that has been uploaded 10 hours ago because nobody has mirrored it. Any other page that features Contra009 Final is linked to download from here.

Can't wait for better links to actually download it. Mega.nz wants to do some "file transfer" BS instead of actually downloading the file like everything else on the internet does.