Heroes Of JinYong

A reimplementation of the DOS game The legend of Jin Yong Heroes(金庸群侠传)

How to build

1. Install cmake and C++ compiler (either GCC 8+, Clang 7+ or MSVC 2019+)
2. Clone the project: git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/soarqin/HeroesOfJinYong
3. (optional after pull new commits from repository) Update submodules: git submodule update --init
4. Use cmake to compile the project (recommended steps):
   1. mkdir build && cd build
   2. cmake ..
   3. (UNIX OSes/MinGW/CygWIN) make
   4. (WIN32) Open project to build

CMake build options

How to use compiled binaries

1. Get original game files (you can download from here)
2. Copy compiled bin/hojy.exe and maybe other dll/so's to your own game root folder
3. Copy src/config.toml to root folder
4. Create a subfolder data in game root folder
5. Copy src/strings.toml to data folder
6. Create a subfolder font in data folder
7. Copy a chinese ttf/otf to font folder (config.tml: fonts = "data/font/chinese.otf" )
8. Extract downloaded game into data (do not create any 2nd-level subfolder)
9. Run hojy.exe and enjoy!

How to merge Submap and Warfield pictures/textures

1. Add -DBUILD_TOOL=ON to cmake command and build the whole project, you will get mergepic in bin folder
2. Run mergepic in original game data folder using following commands to generate 4 files: SDX, SMP, WDX, WMP:
   1. mergepic SDX SMP
   2. mergepic WDX WMP
3. Once done, you can remove all SDX???, SMP???, SDX???, WMP??? files from resource folder

License

• This software is licensed under GPLv3, Check LICENSE for details.
• External/3rd-party libraries are following their own license, see CREDITS below.

CREDITS

• Public Domain:
  • stb_feetype & stb_rect_pack (src/external/stb_*.h)
• MIT licensed:
  • toml++ (src/external/toml.hpp)
  • fmt (deps/fmt)
• FTL licensed:
  • FreeType (found in OSes)
• GPLv3 licensed:
  • libADLMIDI (deps/libADLMIDI)
  • zita-resampler (deps/zita-resampler)
• LGPLv2.1 licensed:
  • soxr (deps/soxr)
• Zlib licensed:
  • SDL2 (use deps/SDL2 in Windows for Input Method support, and find system SDL2 in other OSes)
  • SDL2_gfx (deps/SDL2_gfx)