BombSquad Windows 7 Patch

This project provides a patch to make the latest version of BombSquad CLIENT/SERVER work on Windows 7. The patch involves using a Python modification that enables compatibility with Windows 7.

Installation Guide

Donwload the latest exe here 64bit/32bit. For client just place the exe in the folder containing the games executable and for the server place the exe inside the dist folder. Then run the exe.

CLIENT	SERVER

Building

1. Set Up the Environment

NB - You will need python version that support windows 7 I used {3.8.6}

1. Create a Virtual Environment:

   py -m venv bsw7

2. Activate the Virtual Environment:

   .\bsw7\Scripts\activate

3. Upgrade pip:

   python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip

2. Install Required Packages

pip install pefile, requests, pyinstaller

3. Build the Executable

pyinstaller --onefile --icon=resources/bsw7.ico bsw7_patch.py

Acknowledgments

• BombSquad: Special thanks to efroemling for developing BombSquad and making it available. You can find the ballistica (Bombsquad game engine) project here.
• Python Patch for Windows 7: Thanks to adang1345 for their work on making Python compatible with Windows 7. You can find their project here.
• DLL Support: Thanks to kobilutil for originally creating the api-ms-win-core-path-HACK project, which was later forked and enhanced by nalexandru.
• Windows 7 API Extensions: Thanks to YuZhouRen86 for maintaining and updating the original repo to support more apps and games since BombSquad v1.8 Upgraded Windows builds from VS2022 to VS2026 which dropped support for windows 7.
• Tester: Thanks to discord user @snobbish & Muby(@m.a.h.gp)

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.