Yamagi Quake II

Yamagi Quake II is an alternative client for id Softwares Quake II. Our goal is to provide the best Quake II experience possible, we strive to preserve the gameplay as it was back in 1997. Thus we aim mostly for bug fixes, stability and gentle enhancements were appropriate.

Features

Yamagi Quake II has a lot of unique features. The most notables ones are:

• A modern OpenGL 3.2 renderer, providing a greatly enhanced look and feel. The original OpenGL 1.4 and even the Software renderers are still supported. Both 3D accelerated renderers support anisotropic filtering and multisampling anti aliasing.
• Full support for widescreen displays and arbitrary resolutions. The HUD can be scaled to be readable on high resolutions.
• Support for surround sound, from stereo up to 7.1 channels and even HRTF. The background music can be played from OGG/Vorbis files, a CD drive is no longer necessary.
• A rewritten savegame system. Yamagi Quake II savegames are completely reliable and backward compatible between releases.
• Highly precise timings. For example, on a flat panel display with a 59.95 hertz refresh rate and vertical synchronisation (VSync) enabled Yamagi Quake II is running at exactly 59.95 frames per second.
• In comparison with the original client over 1.500 bugs were fixed. The Yamagi Quake II client is very well tested and stable. The dedicated server is able to run for weeks without a single restart. Last but not least the code is fully 64 bit clean and highly portable.

Yamagi Quake II supports the following platforms:

• FreeBSD
• Linux
• OpenBSD
• Windows

Some additional platforms are supported by the community. Yamagi Quake II works on them, but there may be bugs. The Yamagi Quake II developers may not be able to fix these bugs due to the lack of required hardware or software:

• Mac OS
• NetBSD
• Solaris

News

On 2019-11-29 Yamagi Quake II version 7.42 was released. Changes are:

• The console can now be scrolled with the mouse wheel. (by maxcrofts)
• Fix entities on non-horizontal surfaces rendered in full black.
• Add an option to choose the display Quake II runs on. (by Spirrwell)
• Add an option to specify the display refresh rate used in fullscreen.
• Allow mouse sensitivity to be set to non-integral values.
• Port cvar operations from q2pro. These allow the manipulation of cvar values, supported are: dec, inc, reset, resetall and toggle
• Put the client into pause mode during savegame load. This prevents the world getting forwarded about 100 frames during load, time in which the player might be hurt by monsters or the environment.
• New commands: listentities allows listing of entities. teleport teleports the player to the given coordinates.
• Fix loading of config files not ending in newlines.
• A lot of fixes for subtle, long standing AI and game play bugs. (by BjossiAlfreds)
• Quicksaves can now be loaded and saved throught the savegame menus.
• The software renderer now skips frames with no changes. This improves performance quite a bit, especially on slow CPUs. (by Denis Pauk)

On 2019-02-07 Three Wave Capture The Flag version 1.06 was released. Changes are:

• Small bugfixes.
• Better compatibility with the current Windows build environment.

On 2019-11-29 The Reckoning version 2.09 was released. Changes are:

• New commands: listentities allows listing of entities. teleport teleports the player to the given coordinates.
• A lot of fixes for subtle, long standing AI and game play bugs. (by BjossiAlfreds)
• Fix problem found by PVS studio. (analysis by demoth and fixes by BjossiAlfreds)

On 2019-11-29 Ground Zero version 2.06 and was released. Changes are:

• New commands: listentities allows listing of entities. teleport teleports the player to the given coordinates.
• A lot of fixes for subtle, long standing AI and game play bugs. (by BjossiAlfreds)
• Fix problem found by PVS studio. (analysis by demoth and fixes by BjossiAlfreds)
• Add back Ground Zero specific monster behaviors, lost during initial merge in 2008. (by BjossiAlfreds)

Downloads

Source code archives for the official releases. Instructions for compiling the source into binaries are included:

• Yamagi Quake II Client and Dedicated Server: Yamagi Quake II, Version 7.42
• Three Wave Capture the Flag: Three Wave Capture the Flag, Version 1.06
• The Reckoning: The Reckoning, Version 2.07
• Ground Zero: Ground Zero, Version 2.06

Precompiled Windows binaries: Yamagi Quake II for Windows
Precompiled Mac OS binaries (unofficial): Yamagi Quake II for Mac
Archive with all code and binaries ever released: Yamagi Quake II Archive

Precompiled Windows testbuilds: Yamagi Quake II for Windows Testbuilds

Documentation

The documentation is included in the source archives and with the prebuild Windows binaries. An online version can be found here: Yamagi Quake II Documentation

Contribution and Bugreports

The development of Yamagi Quake II is hosted on Github. If you want to report a bug or send some nice patches please open an issue or a pull request in the appropriate subproject. You can find our organisation at: github.com/yquake2

If you’re planing to work on a bigger feature, please do yourself a favor and ask if we’re interested before spending time onto it. We don’t merge every feature that’s submitted to us just because the code is already there. Maintainability, integration with the existing code and our general focus are of great concern, too.