Rayman Control Panel is a unified configuration and modding tool designed to enhance and streamline the experience of playing PC Rayman games. It provides extended game configuration options, mod loader support, and tools for game setup, save data management, and archive file modification.
Key Features:
Launcher: A centralized platform to launch Rayman games.
Extended Configuration: Customizable settings beyond native game options.
Mod Loader: Supports mods for game modifications, with GameBanana integration for easy mod downloads.
Archive Explorer: Tools to view and edit game archive files, enabling texture replacements and other modifications.
Game-Specific Tools: Features like per-level soundtracks in Rayman 1 and prototype restoration in Rayman Raving Rabbids.
Save Data Management: View, edit, backup, and restore save data as serialized JSON.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for Rayman fans, PC gamers, and modders who seek to customize their gaming experience. The tool offers a comprehensive solution for enhancing gameplay, managing game configurations, and exploring the creative possibilities of modifying classic games.
Rayman Control Panel is available for installation via winget, providing an accessible way to get started with enhanced Rayman game experiences.
README
Rayman Control Panel
Rayman Control Panel is an open source community project created by RayCarrot. It acts as a launcher for your Rayman games, and also aims to unify existing game patches and fixes, as well as allowing extended configurations. It also provides a modding environment for modifying game files and creating and downloading mods. This program does not come with any games and requires the user to have them installed.
Check out the wiki for documentation on the project and its features.
Note: This repository is only for the WPF version (4.0.0 and above). The WinForms version (1.0.0 - 3.2.2) repository has since been made private as it's no longer being maintained and is heavily outdated.
Setup game actions, showing recommended steps for setting up the games, as well as potential issues
Mod loader with GameBanana integration
Game tools, such as allowing per-level soundtrack in Rayman 1 and restoring prototype features in Rayman Raving Rabbids
Save data viewing and editing, along with backup/restore options
Disc installers to install select games from discs
Options to modify game files, such as editing the UBIArt .ipk or CPA .cnt archives
Mod Loader
The mod loader allows you to create and install mods which modify the game in different ways. These can be file replacements, delta patches or game-specific changes. Mods uploaded to GameBanana can be downloaded directly through the app.
For more information about creating and using mods, see the documentation.
The Archive Explorer is a tool within the Rayman Control Panel which allows supported game archive files to be viewed and modified. This is mainly used to replace textures in games, but can also be used for other file types such as sounds and more.
Supported archive file types:
Rayman 1 .dat files
CPA .cnt files
UBIArt .ipk files
Configuration
Supported games have a configuration page where its settings can be changed. This usually allows for more options than the native configuration tools each game has, such as being able to enable controller support, run in windowed mode or change the language.
Tools
Different game-specific tools are available, such as the Prototype Restoration mod for Rayman Raving Rabbids and the Per-Level Soundtrack mod for Rayman 1.
Select games also support runtime modifications, which allows certain data in the game to be modified as its running, such as the number of lives or which level you're currently in. This can sometimes also be used to toggle unused features.
Progression
Detailed game save progression can be viewed, along with options to edit the data as serialized JSON and create/restore backups.
Linux
Currently the app can only run natively on Windows due it using WPF which is not cross-platform. Long-term I would like to migrate the app over to Avalonia UI to allow for true cross-platform, but it would require a lot of work. If anyone would like to help then please let me know! You can also up-vote the request for a native Linux version here.
In the meantime the best way to get it to work on Linux is through Wine or Proton. In order to get the mod loader to work you might also need to grant write permission to the games folders by right-click on it, going to the Properties, then to the Permissions and then set the groups to "Can View & Modify Content". There might still be other issues which are being looked into here.
