GTA:San Andreas DVD2CD

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hi end0r, well, yeah, that rip thingy doesn't install. It's much simpler for me, though, as you just unRAR it, import the REG file, run the setup program, if any, and there you go playing.

@tarzan_gk: Most files that come in game (or other software) installations and have the ".cab" extension are not the original Micro$oft CAB files. They are InstallShield CAB's which can be handled with i5comp and i6comp, see http://sta.c64.org/winprg.html#i5comp .

[DarkLeftos]

Well, it would be kinda hard. Not impossible, but hard and time-consuming.

I already tried to make a home-made installer using Inno Setup and lzma compression in normal and after hours and hours of compression it just wouldn't end. Uncompressed the game is 4,7GB, however doesn't fit in a single-layered DVD.

You could make your own installer, you just have to have the installed game in your HDD, the registry keys extracted and use Inno Setup with ISTool. Select lzma compression, put it on normal or max. On Disk Spanning, put 732954624 as Slice Size. Start the compiling, and leave it through the night.

[leezer3]

My preferred method would actually be much simpler :P
As with many games, GTA: SA will recreate its registry settings if it is copied from PC to PC (Have tried this!). Therefore, I would just use WinRar to compress & split the image into 700mb chunks (It's one of the Winrar spanning presets) & burn these to CDs. When you want to reinstall, simply open the first of the spanned files, and then insert a new CD when it asks for the next part.
Simple

-Leezer-

[DarkLeftos]

Well, that's a way. Didn't know GTA:SA didn't need any registry keys. Well, then yes, that would be a solution. Just RAR the installed folder and select 700MB spanning.

[tarzan_gk]

Well that would be one of the solution. Just like making sims8-1 dvd. I want to try it first. I did back up this game on DVD but i'm interested to make it to couple of discs

[end0r]

thx for your replys guys, looks like there are many ways to do this, but i just dont know which method will actually work and definetly i dont know where to start . it would be really cool if anyone of you guys who have the game and some free time could try one of these backup or split methods posted above and take sometime on it and maybe post a guide step by step on how to do it so me and the more than 200 people who have read this thread can take some taste of your experience in the gamecopyworld life

cheers!

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hey end0r, get WinRAR and read its manual, to understand what it is for and what it can do. (It's a very good and useful piece of software!) Then it won't be a problem for you to go to the GTA:SA installation directory and archive the whole thing into 700 megabyte volumes (beware, it's gonna take an hour or two!) or, for that matter, archive anything else with RAR. Good luck!

[acal3000]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

Hi end0r, well, yeah, that rip thingy doesn't install. It's much simpler for me, though, as you just unRAR it, import the REG file, run the setup program, if any, and there you go playing.

@tarzan_gk: Most files that come in game (or other software) installations and have the ".cab" extension are not the original Micro$oft CAB files. They are InstallShield CAB's which can be handled with i5comp and i6comp, see http://sta.c64.org/winprg.html#i5comp .

Thanks for the info I was wondering since a lot of time how to extract :CAB files too.