# 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. This project is hosted at GitHub.com/deathkiller/jazz2-native.
Jazz² Resurrection supports various versions of the original game, but it is recommended to use The Secret Files.

# Downloads

Latest version was released on April 6^th, 2022 (181 days ago). Release notes can be found here.
Once you download and install Android version, you will be prompted with some security permissions to install app outside the Play Store.

Download Desktop

Windows 7+ / Linux / macOS
v0.7.3 · 3.6 MB

Download Android

Android 5.0+ with OpenGL 3.0
v0.7.3 · 11.2 MB

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# Running the application

Windows

• Download the game
• Copy original Jazz Jackrabbit 2 directory to ‹Game›\Source\
• Run ‹Game›\Jazz2.­exe application

‹Game› is path to Jazz² Resurrection. Cache is recreated during intro cinematics on the first startup, so it can't be skipped.

Linux

• Download the game
• Install dependencies: sudo apt install libglew2.­2 libglfw3 libopenal1 libopenmpt0
• Copy original Jazz Jackrabbit 2 directory to ‹Game›/­Source/­
• Run ‹Game›/­jazz2 or ‹Game›/­jazz2_­clang application

‹Game› is path to Jazz² Resurrection. Cache is recreated during intro cinematics on the first startup, so it can't be skipped.

Web (Emscripten)

• Go to http://deat.tk/jazz2/wasm/
• Import episodes from original Jazz Jackrabbit 2 directory to unlock additional content

Android

• Download the game
• Copy Content directory to ‹Storage›/­Android/­data/­jazz2.­resurrection/­files/­Content/­
• Copy original Jazz Jackrabbit 2 directory to ‹Storage›/­Android/­data/­jazz2.­resurrection/­files/­Source/­
• Install Jazz2.­apk or Jazz2_­x86-64.­apk on the device
• Run the newly installed application

‹Storage› is usually internal storage on your device. The game requires device with Android 5.0 (or newer) and OpenGL ES 3.0 support. Cache is recreated during intro cinematics on the first startup, so it can't be skipped.

# Building the application

Windows

• Install build dependencies
• Open the solution in Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 (or newer) and build it
  • CMake is not recommended for Windows build, but it should work too

Linux

• Install build dependencies
• Build the solution with CMake
  • Run .­/­BuildLinuxGcc.­sh to build with GCC compiler
  • Run .­/­BuildLinuxClang.­sh to build with Clang compiler

Web (Emscripten)

• Install build dependencies
• Put required game files to .­/­Content/­ directory – the files must be provided in advance
• Build the solution with CMake
  • Run .­/­BuildEmscripten.­sh to build with Emscripten

Android

• Install Android SDK (preferably to .­.­/­android-sdk/­)
• Install Android NDK (preferably to .­.­/­android-ndk/­)
• Install Gradle (preferably to .­.­/­gradle/­)
• Install build dependencies
• Build the solution with CMake
  • Run .­/­BuildAndroid.­sh to build APK for Android
  • APK will be located in ‹build-target›/­android/­app/­build/­outputs/­apk/­release/­

# License

This project is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0. This project uses modified nCine game engine.