Copernic;
When I replace the original EXE to the noDVD, I create a new folder named ORIGINAL on the DVD and store there the original FIFA09.EXE. It's sort of "reversal" of what is normally done, nothing really to worry about, when you need to patch you simply copy over the original over the noDVD .EXE
To edit the config.dat you need BigGUI and a HEX editor:
1) Open with a Hex Editor (in my case I used HEX Editor plugin for Notepad++) the file config.dat and change "BIG4" to "BIGF" on the beginning of the file.
2) Open the config.dat with modified header with BigGUI and unpack locale.ini
3) Open the extracted locale.ini with any text editor and change the lines:
(change eng and fre to your language pair)
Code:
DEFAULT_TEXT_LANGUAGE = eng
INSTALL_LANGUAGE= eng
AVAILABLE_LANGS = eng,fre
4) Repack the file with BigGUI into config.dat
5) Open config.dat again with a HEX Editor now to replace "BIGF" to "BIG4"
7) Rebuild the autorun.dat with MsiFiller from Windows SDK to correct MsiFileHash table.
You don't quite need step 7 anyway, just to make it has it should be, luckily Microsoft's Install System is so lame that has a hash table inside but does no hash check at all (otherwise you would get loads of errors with those 0 byte lang files). WTG Microsoft!