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{{Infobox game/row/date|Windows|February 7, 2013|ref=<ref name="release date">[https://www.gog.com/news/release_cannon_fodder_2 Release: Cannon Fodder 2 ● GOG.com]</ref>}}
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{{Infobox game/row/date|Windows|February 7, 2013|wrapper=DOSBox|ref=<ref name="release date">[https://www.gog.com/news/release_cannon_fodder_2 Release: Cannon Fodder 2 ● GOG.com]</ref>}}
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{{Infobox game/row/date|Linux|November 27, 2015|wrapper=DOSBox|ref=<ref>{{Refurl|url=https://www.gog.com/forum/general/the_what_did_just_update_thread/post11126|title=The "what did just update?" thread, page 556 - Forum - GOG.com|date=May 2023}}</ref>}}
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{{Infobox game/row/taxonomy/pacing            | Real-time }}
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{{Infobox game/row/taxonomy/perspectives      | Top-down view }}
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{{Infobox game/row/taxonomy/controls          | Direct control }}
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{{Infobox game/row/taxonomy/genres            | TPS }}
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{{Availability|
 
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{{Availability/row| GOG.com | cannon_fodder_2 | DRM-free | Pre-packaged with [[DOSBox]].<ref>[https://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_gog_games_using_dosbox/page1 List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com]</ref> | | Windows, OS X, Linux }}
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{{Availability/row| GOG.com | cannon_fodder_2 | DRM-free | Pre-packaged with [[DOSBox]].<ref>{{Refurl|url=https://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_gog_games_using_dosbox/page1|title=List of GOG games using DOSBox, page 1 - Forum - GOG.com|date=May 2023}}</ref> | | Windows, OS X, Linux }}
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{{Availability/row| ZOOM | cannon-fodder-2 | DRM-free | Pre-packaged with [[DOSBox#DOSBox-staging|DOSBox-staging]]. Delisted on March 31, 2023.<ref name="ZoomPlatformEADelisting">{{Refurl|url=https://www.zoom-platform.com/news/electronic-arts-codemasters-de-listing-notice|title=Electronic Arts - Codemasters De-Listing Notice|date=2023-03-21}}</ref> | | Windows, OS X, Linux | unavailable }}
 
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{{ii}} A free demo version is available from [https://archive.org/details/canfod2 Archive.org]
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==Essential Improvements==
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===[https://github.com/OpenFodder/openfodder/releases OpenFodder]===
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An open source version of the Cannon Engine, for modern operating systems.
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{{ii}} [https://github.com/OpenFodder/editor/releases A campaign/map editor] is also available to download.
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{{++}} Compatible with retail, Amiga and GOG versions.
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==Game data==
 
==Game data==
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Cannon Fodder 2
Cannon Fodder 2 cover
Developers
Sensible Software
Publishers
Retail Virgin Interactive
Retail re-release Sold Out Software
Digital Codemasters
Release dates
DOS November 1, 1994
Windows (DOSBox) February 7, 2013[1]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) February 7, 2013[1]
Linux (DOSBox) November 27, 2015[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Direct control
Genres TPS
Series Cannon Fodder
Cannon Fodder 2 on HowLongToBeat
Cannon Fodder 2 on MobyGames
Cannon Fodder 2 on Wikipedia
Cannon Fodder
Cannon Fodder 1993
Cannon Fodder 2 1994
Cannon Fodder 3 2011

Cannon Fodder 2 is a singleplayer top-down view TPS game in the Cannon Fodder series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Use DOSBox.
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[3]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
ZOOM Platform (unavailable)
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox-staging. Delisted on March 31, 2023.[4]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
A free demo version is available from Archive.org

Essential Improvements

OpenFodder

An open source version of the Cannon Engine, for modern operating systems.

A campaign/map editor is also available to download.
Compatible with retail, Amiga and GOG versions.


Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes VGA

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 3.3
Processor (CPU) 80386DX 33 MHz
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 5 MB
Video card (GPU) 1 MB of VRAM
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).

References