ra2mix

A python library for working with Red Alert 2 / Yuri's Revenge *.mix files

Mix files are archive files used to store most game files from the games Command And Conquer Red Alert 2 and its expansion pack Yuri's Revenge.

This library allows you to interact with the mix files much like you'd interact with zip files using a program like 7-zip -- except programmatically, of course 😎. You can create mix files by archiving a list of several files, or read existing mix files and do something with the archived files contained within it.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
  • Reading a *.mix file
  • Creating a *.mix file

Installation

pip install ra2mix

Usage

Import the package

import ra2mix

Reading a *.mix file

• Read:

  The ra2mix.read function can take a *.mix filepath and return a dict[str, bytes] object. The keys are filenames and the values are file data as bytes.

  import ra2mix
  mix_filepath = "path/to/mixfile.mix"
  
  filemap = ra2mix.read(mix_filepath)
  print(f"filenames: {list(filemap.keys())}")
  
  for filename, file_data in filemap.items():
      # do something with the file data
  

• Extract:

  The ra2mix.extract function takes a *.mix filepath and an extraction folder path. The files contained in the mix file will be written to the folder.

  import ra2mix
  mix_filepath = "path/to/mixfile.mix"
  extract_folder = "extract/to/folder"
  
  ra2mix.extract(mix_filepath, extract_folder)
  

Creating a *.mix file

The ra2mix.write function supports three methods for specifying files to include in a new *.mix file:

• filemap: A dict[str, bytes] object consisting of filenames and file data
• folder_path: A path to a folder; all files in the folder are added to the mix
• filepaths: A list[str] containing exact filepaths to include in the mix

import ra2mix
mix_filepath = "path/to/mixfile.mix"

target_folder = "read/from/folder"

mix_data = ra2mix.write(mix_filepath, folder_path=target_folder)

# Optionally do something with mix_data if you want; file is already written to
# `mix_filepath`