Junction VIII is now officially part of the Tsunamods initiative!

Junction VIII

Mod manager for Final Fantasy VIII PC.

Introduction

This is a fork of 7th Heaven adapted to Final Fantasy VIII, maintained now by the Tsunamods team.

Download

• Latest stable release
• Latest canary release

Install

HINT: For an easier experience you can also use the setup .exe file in the release which will take care of doing the following steps for you.

0. Download and install the latest .NET Desktop Runtime 8.0 for BOTH x86 and x64
1. Download and install the latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for BOTH x86 and x64
2. Download the latest release using one of the links above
3. Extract the .zip file to your preferred location e.g. C:\Junction VIII.
4. Run Junction VIII.exe

Build

Preparation

0. Clone the vcpkg project in the root folder of your C: drive ( git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git )
1. Go inside the C:\vcpkg folder and double click bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
2. Open a cmd window in C:\vcpkg and run the following command: vcpkg integrate install

Visual Studio

0. Download the the latest Visual Studio Community installer
1. Run the installer and import this .vsconfig file in the installer to pick the required components to build this project
2. Once installed, open the file JunctionVIII.sln in Visual Studio and click the build button

Visual Studio Code (Using Extension in Preview)

0. Make sure to have done the first two steps of Visual Studio section
1. Open VS Code and install the extension C# Dev Kit (this will also install other dependent extensions)
2. Open the JunctionVIII folder and there will be a new tab in Explorer, called Solution Explorer, that contains a similar project explorer of Visual Studio
3. Build: right click on the solution AppUI and click on Build. Otherwise, run dotnet build JunctionVIII.sln /target:AppUI
4. Run: dotnet run --project AppUI
5. Debug: right click on the solution AppUI and click Debug->Start New Instance

License

See LICENSE.txt