Open Fodder requires campaign and mission information, as well as the data files from a retail release of Cannon Fodder. These files must be installed to certain locations depending on your operating system, please see the details below for instructions.
Download the installer package.
The Windows version of Open Fodder defaults to using and installing data to the location '%USERPROFILE%/Documents/OpenFodder'.
While the demos will be installed as part of the Windows installer package, you will be required to copy a full retail release into this folder (following the instructions below, or when prompted to select it during the installer)
Open Fodder will check the environment variable $XDG_DATA_DIRS and iterate each path checking for the data folder "/OpenFodder/".
Failure to locate the folder in these paths, will result in a check of $HOME/.local/share/OpenFodder.
Failure on this path, will fall back to the current working directory.
The campaign information was originally hardcoded in the executable, this is required to play and is downloadable alonside six demos from (https://github.com/OpenFodder/data/releases/download/1.6.0/Data.pack.1.6.0.zip).
This data is packaged with the Windows Installer, but will be a required download if you're compiling / running on Linux/Unix.
Copy 'CF_ENG.DAT' from the CD (or the GOG install destination) to the OpenFodder/Data/Dos_CD folder
Please be aware, Cannon Fodder 2 is a typical AmigaDOS disk (SOS Unpacker will not work). Use an ADF tool on your machine, such as Directory Opus on Windows with the firy plugin (https://github.com/segrax/directory_opus_firy_plugin)
Use the SOS Unpacker to unpack Kyroflux 'CT Raw' images of your Cannon Fodder disks, then copy the contents of 'out' into the OpenFodder/Data/Amiga directory.
Use the WHDLoad installer on an Amiga or an emulator (WinUAE/UAE) to extract the game files from the original floppy disks, then copy the contents of 'cf_data' into the OpenFodder/Data/Amiga directory.
Copy the files from the 'Fodder' folder on the CD-Rom, to the OpenFodder/Data/Amiga_CD folder. For the final video, Extract Track2 from the CD and name it 'Track2.mpg', placed in the Amiga_CD folder.
- Please note: The video playback is not yet supported