Setting up for development
Before we can do anything, we need to set up our development environment. Due to the nature of things, you’re going to need a Windows machine to mod these games. I’m sure there are ways and means to get things working on MacOS or Linux, but that’s outside the scope of this tutorial. I’m going on the basis that you’re using a Windows PC.
If you’ve got a PC beefy enough to run the games, you’ll be just fine to install and configure a modding environment. So let’s download and install what we need.