How to put Mafia on to a DVD (This Definitely Works!)

[Grumpy]

First copy all of CD1 to a Temp folder on your hardrive. (I named my Temp folder MAFIA_DVD__)
Now all 3 CD’s have a folder called ‘MafiaGame’. Copy all the files in this folder from CD2 & CD3 to the same ‘MafiaGame’ folder that you have in the Temp folder (the one from CD1).
So now you have all the files from all 3 CD’s ‘MafiaGame’ folders in the ONE folder!
Then from CD2 you also need to copy the ‘bilboard3.BMP’, bilboard4.BMP, bilboard5.BMP, and the ‘m.exe’ files to the Temp folder. (These 4 files go into the Temp folder NOT the ‘MafiaGame’ folder!)
Then from CD3 you need to copy the ‘EAX3’ (folder) the ‘bilboard6.BMP’, ‘bilboard7.BMP’, ‘bilboard8.BMP’, the ‘DX81eng.exe’, and the ‘DX81NTeng.exe’ files to the Temp folder.

Now using any Hex Editor, (I used ‘Hex Workshop32 v423’) open the file ‘MafiaSetup.exe’ (it’s in the ‘MafiaGame’ folder) and ‘Find’ (In Hex Workshop32 go to ‘Edit’ then ‘Find’) ‘MAFIA_CD_%i’
Change ‘MAFIA_CD_%i’ to ‘MAFIA_DVD__’ (NOTE: DO NOT INCLUDE THE ‘…’)
Remember to ‘Save’ the changes!

Then add another folder for the v1.3 Update! (I named this folder ‘Update’ but name it whatever you choose!)
I also added another folder named ‘NoCD’. In this folder I put the v1.2 NoCD crack made by ‘Drunk’ (it’s available at GameCopyWorld and it works for the v1.3 Update!
Now you can call the ‘Update’ and the ‘NoCD folders whatever you like or even put all the Updates, Patches, Trainers, No Intro Patches etc all in the same folder!
Then use Nero to burn contents of the ‘Temp’ folder to a DVD using the Label MAFIA_DVD__
Now you will have a DVD that WILL install without asking for CD2 or CD3!
The only message you will receive (at the end of the install) is one asking you if you would like a Desktop Icon and if you would like to install DirectX.
Once the install finishes you can install the v1.3 Update then overwrite the ‘game.exe’ with the v1.2 ‘game.exe’ made by Drunk! (I have not tried the one made by ‘Deviance’)

Now I would like to thank 'Pipos', ‘Morglum007’, and his http://www.cdsteam.net , as this is where I got the information from about the ‘Hex Editor’. But I could not understand much else about the Mafia game fix on his site as it didn’t translate to good using ‘Babelfish’. When translated from Spanish to English it says to change ‘MAFIA_CD_%i’ to ‘MAFIA_DVD00’ (QUOTE: “replace %i (25 69) by zeros (00 00). This is thus, because almost always, in programming, the aim of a indentifica text chain with 00” END QUOTE! Sorry Morglum, I really do hope you are not offended by this as I really do appreciate your knowledge! I am not saying the info from your site is wrong, I’m only saying that Babelfish did not do a good job at translating!

I would also like to acknowledge ‘MarkRed’s thread http://fileforums.com/showthread.php...ighlight=mafia as this is where I got ‘MAFIA_DVD__’ from but unfortunately there isn’t enough info here to do it properly but it was his thread that finally made me put this together!

I have read many threads about this great game and I do believe that now all the information is here, in the one place to do it properly! I do not care who copies this, I do not care if others post this info on other forums and or their own sites but I do feel that 'Pipos', ‘Morglum007’ (and his site) and ‘MarkRed’ should be thanked accordingly! Please just enjoy this information!

Grumpy