Integrating game patches with installs?

[junkmonk]

Originally Posted by BarryB

You would have to extract all the files from the patch

How do I do this without installing into the game directory?

[BarryB]

That depends on what type of installer the patch uses. Some installers have had programs written specifically to extract the contents like:

I5COMP & I6COMP for Installshield
INNOUNP 0.15 for Inno Setup
WUN 0.90A for Wise Installer

Installshield and Inno Setup are probably the only 2 installers you could add files too, Inno would need to be recompiled using the script extracted using Innounp.

Belive me, it's more trouble than it's worth! Ask Grumpy

[junkmonk]

In this specific case, I'm trying to integrate the SW Battlefront 1.2 ENG 170meg patch to a DVD with all the extracted isos compiled, when I right click on the update file "Battlefront1_2_Eng.exe" then go to properties, then version for description it says: Self-extracting Update
don't know if this is important but File version is: 1.0.2.0
and copyright is 2004 lucas arts
What should I use to extract this without installing to the SWBF directory?

[BarryB]

Extracted ISO's? You don't need to extract ANY iso's if you have the original discs, hope they're not downloaded iso's!

[DarkLeftos]

Adding another solution, would be to apply the patch to your installed game and make an installation with Inno Setup and ISTool. Requires a tad bit more time I guess, but it works most of the time, and it does not need to mess with InstallShield and the like.