The Settlers 5 + Expansion
 

Original Poster: PhillipWyllie
Post Date: 24-07-2005

Make three folders(say "five", "expansion" and "xtras") in another folder( say "root"). Make another folder in "root" named "Setupdir" (this is mandatory). Extract the contents of CD1& 2 into "five" not overwriting. Extract the contents of the expansion disc into "expansion". Put the relevant updates, nocds and cracks into "xtras". Note the "Settlers 5:fog Realm 1.3.190 NoCd/fixed.exe" is only a crack( so you'l need the DVD in the drive). Using your preferd method to make a cd browser that links to the setup.exes in the "five" directory, "expansion" directory, runs the update , copies over the nocd, and expansion crack. Make sure the install process doesn't copy a crack before the update and addon. Note that "SHoKMapEditor.exe" is a readonly file. In the autorun.inf file make sure you have the line "label=THE SETTLERS". I used a .bat file using self extracting winzip files as the alternative autorun.exe and here it is:

@ECHO OFF
TITLE The Settlers 5 plus Expansion pack

ECHO Setting up Settlers 5...
START /wait FIVE\setup.exe

ECHO Setting up the expansion pack...
START /wait EXPANSION\setup.exe

ECHO Settlers 5 1.04 update...
START /wait Xtras\1.04Update.exe

ECHO Copying NoCD for Settlers 5...
START /wait Xtras\1.04NoCD.exe

ECHO Copying crack for expansion...
DEL /p /f "C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Blue Byte\THE SETTLERS - Heritage of Kings\extra1\bin\SHoKMapEditor.exe"
START /wait Xtras\Expcrack.exe

ECHO Remember,you'll need the DVD in the drive to play the expansion
pause

And the autorun.inf:

[autorun]
open=autorun.bat
label=THE SETTLERS
icon=FIVE\autorun.exe,0

Now the trick: to fool the expansion game you need to copy over the file "zshokextra1.bin"[131,072kB] from "root\expansion\setupdir\" to the new "setupdir" in the "root" directory. Copy the file "shokextra1.bin"[0kB] from "root\five" to the "root" directory. Burn/ make an image of the contents of "root" but not "root" itself and call the DVD "SHOK_ADDON_EN_NL"