Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

[Grumpy]

Original Poster: Asimov
Post Date: 06-10-2004

(This method is from a thread over at CDStream)

Copy all of the contents from CD1 to a new temparary folder on your computer.
Copy all of the contents from CD2, CD3 and CD4 except the files autorun.inf and autorun.exe to the same temparary folder as those of CD1.
To keep the directory structure, when asked if you would like to replace exiting files, click yes.
Make sure not to copy the two autorun files from the last three CDs or it will not install properly.

Open the autorun.inf file with notepad and change this:

[Disk]
Disk=1
Label1=Disk1

So it looks like this:

[Disk]
Disk=4
Label4=Disk4

Save the changes.
Create a new folder in the temp diretory for a no-cd crack + patches and call it whatever you like.
Burn all the contents of the temparary folder to a DVD with any title.

Notes:
*Keep in mind that because you changed the autorun.inf file the autorun will ask you to insert the first CD. All you need to do is go into the CD and run the Setup.exe to install.

[Grumpy]

Original Poster: Killpuppy
Post Date: 11-11-2004

This is in regards to the autorun issue as mentioned by Asimov for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

Originally we had to exit the autorun installer and navigate to windows explorer to manually choose setup. BTW Good Job Asimov. I had been curious about the process for a while

While I doubt that we can enable the autorun at all, we can rig the autorun.inf file. When is done the disk will automaticly install upon insert rather than seeking the proper autorun menu.

To do this open autorun.inf with notepad.

Change these lines:

[autorun]
OPEN=autorun.exe
ICON=autorun.exe,0

to the following:

[autorun]
OPEN=setup.exe
ICON=autorun.exe,0

[Grumpy]

Original Poster: Thruba
Post Date: 11-11-2004


Copy all contents of CD 1 to a temporary folder, as mentioned by Asimov (cheers mate).
From CDs 2, 3 and 4 copy the data*.cab files (data3.cab, data4.cab and data5.cab respectively) to the same temporary folder. From CD 4 copy also the "Extras" folder.

To avoid the "Please Enter Disc 4" problem, do the following:

Open the "setup.inx" file with a hex editor (I used a demo version of UltraEdit (http://www.ultraedit.com/)). Do a search for "autorun.inf" in "ASCII" mode and you will find two entries. Now all you have to do is rename those entries replacing one character (I changed them to "autoruk.inf"). *Important*: Do not add or delete any character, because you will make your file unusable. Save your file as "setup.inx" (If you use UltraEdit, the program will automatically save your original file as "setup.inx.bak". You don't need this file.)

Next, make a copy of "autorun.inf" and rename the copy to whatever you named your entries in the "setup.inx" file (i.e. "autoruk.inf"). Edit the new file and replace the entries

[Disk]
Disk=1
Label1=Disk1

to

[Disk]
Disk=4
Label4=Disk4

Now you must have two .inf files in your folder. This will eliminate the "Disc 4" annoying error!

Finally, you may want to import the no-cd crack to your project, so when you install the game, you don't have to replace the .exe file to play. You will need the no-cd .exe (swkotor.exe) and i6comp 1.03b (http://protools.anticrack.de/files/decompilers/i6comp.zip). Just do the following:

Copy all your data*.* files (data1.cab, data1.hdr, data2.cab, data3.cab, data4.cab and data5.cab) to a new temporary folder (i.e. Temp2). Copy also the no-cd crack (swkotor.exe).
Copy the "i6comp.exe" from the .zip archive to your windows folder (C:\Windows or whatever you have).
Open a command prompt pointing at your new temp folder and write exactly as you see it the following:

i6comp r data1.cab swkotor.exe

This will replace the swkotor.exe inside the cabs with the no-cd crack and modify the data1.hdr.

When the procedure is complete, close the dos box, copy the data*.* files back to your first temporary folder and replace the original data*.* files.