OpenRF
Play Return Fire in your browser
OpenRF runs here as openrf.wasm on the
gasm runtime: the same engine as the desktop app, with the
graphics, maps, movies and music read from your own Return Fire CD. Nothing from the game
is on this site, and nothing you pick leaves your computer.
What you need
- The Return Fire CD for Windows 95, as a disc in a drive, a mounted disc image, or a folder you copied it to. How to mount an image.
- A recent Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari. The browser copies the CD (about 280 MB) into its private storage for this site once, so later visits start at once.
- A keyboard or a gamepad; two players can share one keyboard (player 2 on the numeric keypad).
Your CD
Imported:
The browser may clear site data when disk space runs low.
Or choose the CD again below to replace it.
Pick the folder that holds RFIRE.BIN, ART and SOUND:
the CD itself (/Volumes/RFIRE, drive D:) or a copy of it.
Importing copies the files into this site's private browser storage (OPFS). Playing without importing reads them from the folder you picked, which you'll need to pick again next time.
Controls
The keyboard works as in the original game; gamepads work alongside it, the first for player 1 and the second for player 2. More in Controls.
| In the game | Player 1 keys | Player 2 keys | Gamepad |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forward / back, turn | W A S D or arrow keys | Keypad 8 5 4 6 | D-pad, left stick |
| Button 1: fire, launch, dock | H | Keypad − | A (east) |
| Button 2 | J | Keypad + | B (south) |
| Button 3 | K | Keypad Enter | X (north) |
| Buttons 4 / 5: turret, strafe | Q / E | Keypad 7 / 9 | L / R |
| Self-destruct | H + J + K | Keypad − + Enter | A + B + X |
Title screen: F2 (or START) starts a one-player game, F3 (or SELECT, or player 2's START) a two-player game, 1–9 and Shift + 1–9 the first one- and two-player map of a difficulty level. In play, Alt + 3 (or SELECT) swaps sides and Esc (or START + SELECT) leaves the level; holding Esc stops the game. High scores are kept in this browser.