Confusing problem

[Somebody]

The copy is the same as the original and the files won't go into it.

The copy is supposed to be the same. You can get Winrar on the website (on the homepage of this site). It has a free trial period (which is forever, because it never goes away :-D)

If you don't have it, you need it to get DSL. Also When you get the Rar file, you need to extract it and click Yes to All when it wants to copy over other files.

[Dark Richician]

I've already got WinRar, I downloaded DSL 2.0 and the zipped I download after it that goes with it, and I've extracted the files but nothing on the game has changed.  I want to know what to do with the downloads once I've extracted them

[Sage]

drag the folder to your desktop.
open it.
open your RA2 folder.
drag the files.

(At least, thats what i did. i might have gone through and dragged only files, and no folders, to make sure i didn't overwrite anything i needed. You might as well do that.

[Dark Richician]

Finally changed everything.  Now how to I play as the Robot Wars robots?

[ACAMS]

Now you will have to download the extracted AI bots, or extract them yourself.
 
To extract a bot yourself go to Exhibition and see the bot you want....the very top team is team0 the first bot is bot0
now go to your Robot Arena folder...which if you did it right should be C:\Program Files\Infogrames\Robot Arena 2 DSL
now go to the AI folder and open the team folder the bot you want is in and right click...select copy, then paste it in the Robot designs folder. There are other ways, but for now just do that and rename it to the bot name after you KNOW that it is right.
 
 
EDIT: Since you obviously don't look for stuff, you can find the extracted bots here https://gametechmods.com/?do=RA2_Downloads under RA2 Bots

[Dark Richician]

All sorted now.  Thanks, everyone

[Sage]

You're welcome, and good luck.

[Somebody]

Have fun!