Introduction

Jazz² Resurrection is reimplementation of the game Jazz Jackrabbit 2 released in 1998. Supports various versions of the game (Shareware Demo, Holiday Hare '98, The Secret Files and Christmas Chronicles). Also, it partially supports some features of JJ2+ extension and MLLE. Further information can be found here.

This project uses parts of Duality - A 2D GameDev Framework.

Preview

Running the application

Windows / Linux / macOS

• Download Desktop release (alternatively, build the solution and copy

  Content

  directory to

  ‹Game›/Content/

  )
• Run

  ‹Game›/Import.exe "Path to original JJ2"

  (or drag and drop original Jazz Jackrabbit 2 directory on

  Import.exe

  )
  • On Linux and macOS, you can run

    mono Import.exe "Path to original JJ2"

• Run

  ‹Game›/Jazz2.exe

  • On Linux and macOS, you can run

    mono Jazz2.exe

‹Game›

Import.exe

Android

• Download both Desktop and Android releases (alternatively, build the solution and copy

  Content

  directory to

  ‹Game›/Content/

  )
• Run

  ‹Game›/Import.exe "Path to original JJ2"

  (or drag and drop original Jazz Jackrabbit 2 directory on

  Import.exe

  )
• Copy

  ‹Game›/Content/

  directory to

  ‹Storage›/jazz2.android/Content/

  • Alternatively, you can use

    ‹Storage›/Android/Data/jazz2.android/Content/

    instead
  • Create empty file

    .nomedia

    in

    ‹Storage›/jazz2.android/

    to hide files from Android Gallery
• Install

  Jazz2.apk

  on Android device
• Run the newly installed application

Requires device with Android 5.0 (or newer) and OpenGL ES 3.0 support.

‹Storage›

WebAssembly

• Go to Jazz² Resurrection page to play Shareware Demo online
  • Alternatively, build the solution and copy

    Content

    directory from Desktop release to build target directory

Requires Google Chrome 57 (or newer), Firefox 53 (or newer) or other browser supporting WebAssembly and WebGL.

Dependencies

Windows

• .NET Framework 4.5.2 (or newer)
• OpenAL Soft (included in release)
  • Copy

    x86/openal32.dll

    to

    ‹Game›/Extensions/OpenALSoft.x86.dll

  • Copy

    x64/openal32.dll

    to

    ‹Game›/Extensions/OpenALSoft.x64.dll

• libopenmpt (included in release)
  • Copy

    libopenmpt.dll

    (x86, and its dependencies) to

    ‹Game›

    directory

Linux

• Mono 5.0 (or newer)
• OpenAL
  • Run

    sudo apt install openal1

    if it's missing
• libopenmpt (included in release)
  • Copy

    libopenmpt.so

    (x86, and its dependencies) to

    ‹Game›

    directory

macOS

• Mono 5.0 (or newer)
• OpenAL should be already installed by OS
• libopenmpt
  • Copy

    libopenmpt.dylib

    (x86, and its dependencies) to

    ‹Game›

    directory

Android

• Xamarin
• OpenAL Soft (included for armeabi-v7a and x86)
• libopenmpt (included for armeabi-v7a and x86)

WebAssembly

• .NET Framework 4.5.2 (or newer) / Mono 5.0 (or newer)

• Mono.WebAssembly.Sdk

  (included as NuGet)
• WebGL.NET (included)

Building the solution

Windows

• Open the solution in Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 (or newer) and build it
• Copy

  /Packages/AdamsLair.OpenTK.x.y.z/lib/OpenTK.dll.config

  to

  /Jazz2/Bin/Debug/OpenTK.dll.config

• Copy dependencies to

  /Jazz2/Bin/Debug/

  or

  /Jazz2/Bin/Release/

• If you build Release configuration, you have to replace

  Debug

  with

  Release

  in paths above

Linux

• Install Mono 5.0 (or newer)
• Run

  msbuild

  in directory with the solution file (.sln):
• Copy

  /Packages/AdamsLair.OpenTK.x.y.z/lib/OpenTK.dll.config

  to

  /Jazz2/Bin/Debug/OpenTK.dll.config

• Obtain and copy

  libopenmpt.so

  to

  /Jazz2/Bin/Debug/libopenmpt.so

  to enable music playback
• Then you can rebuild the solution only with

  msbuild

  command
• Use

  msbuild /p:Configuration=Release

  to build Release configuration, you have to replace

  Debug

  with

  Release

  in paths above

macOS

• Install Mono 5.0 (or newer)
• Open the solution in Microsoft Visual Studio for Mac and build it
• Copy

  /Packages/AdamsLair.OpenTK.x.y.z/lib/OpenTK.dll.config

  to

  /Jazz2/Bin/Debug/OpenTK.dll.config

• Obtain and copy

  libopenmpt.dylib

  to

  /Jazz2/Bin/Debug/libopenmpt.dylib

  to enable music playback
• If you build Release configuration, you have to replace

  Debug

  with

  Release

  in paths above

**.NET 5.0* build can be compiled in a similar way (use*

Jazz2.NET5.sln

Android

• Install Mobile development in .NET for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 (or newer)
• Open the solution and build

  Jazz2.Android

  project
• Dependencies are already included for common configurations

WebAssembly

• Open the solution and build

  Jazz2.Wasm

  project
• Dependencies are already included for common configurations

Extensions

OpenGL ES 2.0 (Experimental)

Alternative OpenGL ES 2.0 backend can be built separately. It does not contain all features that are available in default OpenGL 2.1 backend, but it should run faster on low-end configurations. Don't use it if you have no reason to do so!

To use it, build

Extensions/Es20Backend

/Jazz2/Bin/Debug/Extensions/Es20Backend.core.dll

Content/_ES20

/Jazz2/Bin/Debug/Content

Also, you have to remove

/Jazz2/Bin/Debug/Extensions/GL21Backend.core.dll

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0.