The Cursed Crusade (DVD9 -> DVD5)

[BAMsE]

The Cursed Crusade DVD9 -> DVD5


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At the very first biggest greetz fly to yener90 'coz this conversion uses his installer.
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All mesures on Core2Duo E5200@3.5GHz


1. Install the game

2. Download TCC_DVD5_v.2.rar, extract to TEMP folder

3. go to:
{game_folder}\Win32\SOUNDS\VOICE
leave:
prefered lang folder
delete:
rest lang folders

4. go to:
{game_folder}\Common\SOUNDS\VOICE
leave:
prefered lang folder
delete:
rest lang folders

5. go to:
{game_folder}\Win32\PAC
search and delete in all subfolders:
*_XX.* ('XX' can be FR, GE, IT, POL, RU, SP)
leave only:
*_EN.* and, if exists, *_YOUR_LANG.*

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6. move:
{game_folder}\Redist
to:
TCC_DVD5

7 (UPDATED). install WinRAR
copy:
winrar.exe
to:
{game_folder}
download 1#convert.rar, extract to {game_folder} and run:
1#convert.bat
(convert time: ~7min)

8. run FreeArc, compress content of {game_folder}
archive name: data1.cab
compression: -mx -ld256m
SFX: not checked
(final size: ~3.37GB, pack time: ~1h 20min, unpack time: ~9min)

9. move:
data1.cab
to:
TCC_DVD5

10 (UPDTED). download 2#convert.rar, extract to TEMP folder
copy:
winrar.exe
to:
TEMP
run FreeArc, compress 2#convert.bat and winrar.exe
archive name: data2.cab
compression: -m0
SFX: not checked

11 (UPDATED). move:
data2.cab
to:
TCC_DVD5

12. Make iso/burn content of TCC_DVD5 folder with any label

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UPDATE: there was some issue with WinRAR on certain cases (thx MATRIXOMER). Added registry key to slove it

[pakrat2k2]

congrats, another nice conversion done, will have to say you've gotten very good using yener's source to get these dvd9 to dvd5. will have to test this out on W7x64 see it turns out.

[BAMsE]

It's not my credit anymore. All thanks to yener90 and his easy like f... (no matter like what ;) ) installer. Moreover my scripting abilities are such poor that you're pushed to watch this ugly WinRAR window instead of some nice looking gauge. Of course all repack can be done in background (inno's "runhidden" switch won't run but WinRAR has -ibck switch) but there are few minutes when nothing is happened on the screen so probably half of users will kill the setup by task manager :)

BTW: I realize that commandline 7zip would be better then WinRAR but I can't find any suitable switches for "repack all *.zip in all subfolders from 'nocomp' to 'lightcomp'". If you know some please post it to earn some credits if it'll be working :)

[yener90]

dude...if you use the newest version of custom installer, it supports RAR and 7z.
did it need to be zip?? :D
then you wouldnt need to make a custom extractor ;)

[eliwodkung]

when i extract convert to install dir and run 1#convert.bat

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m200/eliwodkung/Untitled-17.png


am i doing wrong? :confused:

[BAMsE]

@yener90: game uses zipped files with light compression (which are poor compressed by freearc) so I decided to change its compression to zero (now they are much more 'freearced'). During instalation they need to be light-zipped (uncompressed or unzipped arn't recognized by game).

@eliwodkung: it's all OK, just my laziness during renaming files :D You can continue conversion. I'll fix it in next hours.

[yener90]

ok bro. didnt realize :D

[eliwodkung]

OK. Thanks ^^

[eliwodkung]

i follow step 8. but i can't find compression: -mx -ld256m
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m200/eliwodkung/Untitled2.png

[pakrat2k2]

you can use any of them you want.. use -mx -ld800m

[BAMsE]

'convert.rar' updated. Although if you have done step 7. with previous one you don't need do this again.

@eliwodkung you don't have to choose preset from list, you may write your own. Just type '-mx -ld256m' in this line (without quotes). Of course you can use -ld800m which gives 2.75GB after 1' 40" compression

[MATRIXOMER]

compression final dvd (data1.cab) size 6.1 gb ?
http://b1110.hizliresim.com/11/10/12/19089.png

[BAMsE]

@MATRIXOMER did you properly done step 7? If yes there should be, for example, "engine.zip" (size 46 996 829 bytes) instead of "engine.pac" in Win32\PAC folder

[MATRIXOMER]

http://www.hizliupload.com/di-KTCZ.png

[BAMsE]

@MATRIXOMER your zips are virgin *.pac (without any repack). Did you have winrar.exe in root of game folder while running 1#convert.bat ? Did you see this window?
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Also 1#convert.bat and winrar.exe must be in game folder

[MATRIXOMER]

http://img49.resimup.net/di/J9S8.png to http://img44.resimup.net/di/HSRW.png to http://img17.resimup.net/di/RGWY.png

Rar and zip file (Pac folder)?? size 14 gb, FreeArc to compress game_folder ,finished data1.cab 6.1 gb?? (I deleted ALL RAR FILES) .)

am ı doing wrong?

[Angrenbor]

I have the same problem as MATRIXOMER. After conversion (WinRAR.exe and Convert.bat copied to the game folder, others languages except EN deleted) game data is completely messed up. There are zips and rars and whole game folder is almost 14gb. I've deleted rars manually, after that game folder is ~7.70gb, but after compression with FreeArc data1.cab is still ~6.2gb.

Note: I use 2nd version of convert.bat

[BAMsE]

Huh man... what a mess :eek: I've missed some WinRAR registry value determining output format.

It's corrected now, although you must delete data2.cab comming from previous TCC_DVD5.rar and create your own at step 10.

[pakrat2k2]

oops, sorry must learn to read, the convert files are Numberd #1 & #2...

[MATRIXOMER]

Freearch compress type this problem is -mx -ld256m (data1.cab) ,game setup to extract compress error , I am use -mx -ld800m (good) tested..

[Angrenbor]

I used -ld256m and everything's fine. Whole conversion works great now. Thanks!