Phobos

Game: Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge → (Windows, 2001)

Phobos: a community-made engine extension for Command & Conquer: Yuri’s Revenge, with new features and fixes aimed at mod makers. It’s a DLL (Phobos.dll) that SyringeEx, an extended, open-source version of Syringe, injects into the game’s executable, gamemd.exe: its code hooks into specific addresses in the binary, found by disassembling it. It’s designed to accompany Ares, the other major engine extension, without introducing incompatibilities, but doesn’t need it to work, and it’s compatible with the CnCNet 5 spawner. On its own it changes almost nothing beyond a few fixes: its features are enabled from each mod’s INI files and documented on its website, in Chinese too. They include new projectile trajectories, shields, damage multipliers, a building production queue, new orders for aircraft, parabombs, and dozens of fixes for bugs in the original game. It started in 2020, and its first stable release came out in February 2021. The latest stable release is 0.4.0.2 (January 28), and the latest pre-release, 0.5-alpha2 (October 10), bundles SyringeEx’s Syringe.exe. The README warns that the project isn’t maintained actively enough and is looking for maintainers, though it has received about a hundred commits in the last six weeks. Its contributing guide encourages using AI coding agents (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and similar tools) to write hooks, review code, and write documentation, and the repository includes instructions for them; none of its last 100 commits lists an AI as a co-author.

You needYour own copy of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 with the Yuri’s Revenge expansion for PC. Phobos.dll, Phobos.pdb, and SyringeEx’s Syringe.exe (0.1.0.2 or later) go in the folder with gamemd.exe, and the game is launched through Syringe.exe or Ares’s RunAres.bat. Installing Ares too is recommended for the full feature set. Saves don’t carry over between Phobos versions. Plus Windows.

Type

Mod

Game

Command & Conquer: Yuri’s Revenge, the Red Alert 2 expansion (PC, 2001)

Platform

Microsoft Windows

Author

Kerbiter, Starkku, …

Stars

503

Last activity

2026-10-30 · 1 day ago

Latest version

v0.4.0.2 · 2026-01-28

License

GPL-3.0

Language

C++

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