[aussietoo]

Iam from australia so this may not help many people but i did a nomal copy of the cd's to hard drive then copy i applied the game.exe and emperor. exe cracks from this site after installing the game (my version only has one option of install does not install all data from the 4 cd's. If I applied the recourse.cfg file from this site it wouldn't pick up the cd for the sides would only ####t the game with no video, sound, music so i didn't copy over the recourse.cfg file and all worked fine with my copied cd,s. I only copied over game.exe & emperor.exe cracks.

Also didn't worry about the no cd desypher file either as that didn't work even with the update of visual basic 6.

I will have to see if the hole game plays through but by the time that happenes there will be heaps of stuff on this site to fix probs.

Hope it helps as this was a fluke for me.