Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
DVD to CD Conversion
What you need:
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1. Your GTA San Andreas DVD
2. No-DVD crack from gamecopyworld (http://dl.gamecopyworld.com/?d=2005&f=hlm-gtasa!rar)
3. WinRar (
www.rarlab.com/download.htm)
4. RegCleaner (
www.majorgeeks.com/download460.html)
5. Around 10 GB free hard disk space
A. Preparation
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1. Install GTA San Andreas, choose Complete install
2. Replace original gta_sa.exe with no-DVD crack
3. Install WinRar & RegCleaner
4. Launch RegCleaner and remove GTA SA regkey
5. On RegCleaner go to 'Backup' tab, select removed GTA SA regkey
6. Right click, choose 'View with notepad'
7. In notepad, save the file into GTA SA installation folder with name Gtasa.reg
B. Making The Installer
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1. Go to GTA SA installation folder, default is C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas
2. Select All files (make sure you have activated 'show all files') right click and choose "Add to Archieve
3. In WinRar interface, select:
- Create SFX archieve
- Put authenticity verification
- Test archieved files
- Compression method: Best
- Split to volumes, bytes: 700m - CD-700M
- Archieve name: Setup.exe
4. Go to 'Advanced' tab, select 'Old style volume names'
5. Click SFX options
- Path to extract: C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas
- Run after extraction: Gtasa.reg
6. In this Advanced SFX options, go to 'Advanced' tab, Add shortcut
- Where to create: Desktop
- Source file name: gta_sa.exe
- Shortcut name: GTA San Andreas (or anything you like)
- OK
7. In this Advanced SFX options, go to 'Text and icon' tab
- Title of SFX Window: Installation GTA San Andreas (or anything you like)
8. OK and OK. It will take couple hours. There are 5 created WinRar files now:
Setup.exe
Setup.r00
Setup.r01
Setup.r02
Setup.r03
C. Burn into CD
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1. Open notepad, copy and paste this:
[Autorun]
Open=Setup.exe
Save file as Autorun.inf and put it in the same folder with your Setup.exe
2. Now burn each file into CD-R with any label. Put Autorun.inf in CD 1
3. Your 5 discs GTA San Andreas are ready!
4. Now you can remove your GTA San Andreas folder and all shortcut on Desktop and Start Menu
NOTE
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1. If your game won't start, right click gtasa.reg file then choose edit.
2. Change "ExePath" to your installation folder, example: D:\Games\GTA San Andreas
"ExePath"="\"\F:\\Program Files\\Rockstar Games\\GTA San Andreas\\gta_sa.exe\"\"
change to
"ExePath"="\"\D:\\Games\\GTA San Andreas\\gta_sa.exe\"\"
3. If your Windows not in drive C, example: in drive D
"UninstallPath"="RunDll32 C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\INSTAL~1\\PROFES~1\\RUNTIM E\\10\\50\\INTEL32\\Ctor.dll,LaunchSetup "C:\\Program Files\\InstallShield ...
change to
"UninstallPath"="RunDll32 D:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\INSTAL~1\\PROFES~1\\RUNTIM E\\10\\50\\INTEL32\\Ctor.dll,LaunchSetup "D:\\Program Files\\InstallShield ...
4. Save and launch this file
TESTED & WORKS !!!
Thanks to dede for making a great sims8-1 conversion