GTA:San Andreas DVD2CD

[tarzan_gk]

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
DVD to CD Conversion


What you need:
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1. Your GTA San Andreas DVD
2. No-DVD crack from gamecopyworld (http://dl.gamecopyworld.com/?d=2005&f=hlm-gtasa!rar)
3. WinRar (www.rarlab.com/download.htm)
4. RegCleaner (www.majorgeeks.com/download460.html)
5. Around 10 GB free hard disk space


A. Preparation
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1. Install GTA San Andreas, choose Complete install
2. Replace original gta_sa.exe with no-DVD crack
3. Install WinRar & RegCleaner
4. Launch RegCleaner and remove GTA SA regkey
5. On RegCleaner go to 'Backup' tab, select removed GTA SA regkey
6. Right click, choose 'View with notepad'
7. In notepad, save the file into GTA SA installation folder with name Gtasa.reg


B. Making The Installer
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1. Go to GTA SA installation folder, default is C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas
2. Select All files (make sure you have activated 'show all files') right click and choose "Add to Archieve
3. In WinRar interface, select:
- Create SFX archieve
- Put authenticity verification
- Test archieved files
- Compression method: Best
- Split to volumes, bytes: 700m - CD-700M
- Archieve name: Setup.exe
4. Go to 'Advanced' tab, select 'Old style volume names'
5. Click SFX options
- Path to extract: C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\GTA San Andreas
- Run after extraction: Gtasa.reg
6. In this Advanced SFX options, go to 'Advanced' tab, Add shortcut
- Where to create: Desktop
- Source file name: gta_sa.exe
- Shortcut name: GTA San Andreas (or anything you like)
- OK
7. In this Advanced SFX options, go to 'Text and icon' tab
- Title of SFX Window: Installation GTA San Andreas (or anything you like)
8. OK and OK. It will take couple hours. There are 5 created WinRar files now:
Setup.exe
Setup.r00
Setup.r01
Setup.r02
Setup.r03


C. Burn into CD
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1. Open notepad, copy and paste this:

[Autorun]
Open=Setup.exe

Save file as Autorun.inf and put it in the same folder with your Setup.exe
2. Now burn each file into CD-R with any label. Put Autorun.inf in CD 1
3. Your 5 discs GTA San Andreas are ready!
4. Now you can remove your GTA San Andreas folder and all shortcut on Desktop and Start Menu



NOTE
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1. If your game won't start, right click gtasa.reg file then choose edit.
2. Change "ExePath" to your installation folder, example: D:\Games\GTA San Andreas

"ExePath"="\"\F:\\Program Files\\Rockstar Games\\GTA San Andreas\\gta_sa.exe\"\"

change to

"ExePath"="\"\D:\\Games\\GTA San Andreas\\gta_sa.exe\"\"

3. If your Windows not in drive C, example: in drive D

"UninstallPath"="RunDll32 C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\INSTAL~1\\PROFES~1\\RUNTIM E\\10\\50\\INTEL32\\Ctor.dll,LaunchSetup "C:\\Program Files\\InstallShield ...

change to

"UninstallPath"="RunDll32 D:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\INSTAL~1\\PROFES~1\\RUNTIM E\\10\\50\\INTEL32\\Ctor.dll,LaunchSetup "D:\\Program Files\\InstallShield ...

4. Save and launch this file


TESTED & WORKS !!!

Thanks to dede for making a great sims8-1 conversion

[djqsilver]

many thx man ...

P.D:
I have I throw an installation MINIMAL of the GTA, have captured all the keys of registry All keys registry of instalation Of GTA_SA , have changed the route of the EXE but nothing with himself not to make it work, always I obtain a black screen after the introduction videos. Single it wanted to know in that I am being mistaken

greetings

hello again tarzan_th. please you can put your registry keys.

thx

[leezer3]

Originally Posted by djqsilver

many thx man ...

P.D:
I have I throw an installation MINIMAL of the GTA, have captured all the keys of registry All keys registry of instalation Of GTA_SA , have changed the route of the EXE but nothing with himself not to make it work, always I obtain a black screen after the introduction videos. Single it wanted to know in that I am being mistaken

greetings

hello again tarzan_th. please you can put your registry keys.

thx

Hi there,
Your problem in this case is the minimal install- For some stupid reason, GTA SA will not run NOCD without that 2gbs of radio stations being present

-Leezer-

[djqsilver]

Originally Posted by leezer3

Hi there,
Your problem in this case is the minimal install- For some stupid reason, GTA SA will not run NOCD without that 2gbs of radio stations being present

-Leezer-

well i probe with a complete instalation and this Run, it is but not at least it needs to alter the registry

well, all great now here

only a question more: another program exists that allows to do facilities with high compression and multi-disk, the UHARC is amazing (super high compression) but does not have multidisk option

greetings to all

P.D: sorry to my very bad english not it my native lenguage

[leezer3]

The way to do that is to stick the UHA file inside a spanned RAR archive I've never got round to trying UHA myself, as in most cases RAR compresses enough for me. Secondly, RAR does a very nice SFX dialouge

-Leezer-

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by tarzan_gk

"ExePath"="\"\F:\\Program Files\\Rockstar Games\\GTA San Andreas\\gta_sa.exe\"\"

change to

"ExePath"="\"\D:\\Games\\GTA San Andreas\\gta_sa.exe\"\"

Errrrrr

Shouldnt it be changed to

"ExePath"="D:\\Games\\GTA San Andreas\\gta_sa.exe\\"

[TokNinjan]

Originally Posted by tarzan_gk

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
DVD to CD Conversion


What you need:
-------------
1. Your GTA San Andreas DVD
2. No-DVD crack from gamecopyworld (http://dl.gamecopyworld.com/?d=2005&f=hlm-gtasa!rar)
3. WinRar (www.rarlab.com/download.htm)
4. RegCleaner (www.majorgeeks.com/download460.html)
5. Around 10 GB free hard disk space


A. Preparation
---------------
1. Install GTA San Andreas, choose Complete install
2. Replace original gta_sa.exe with no-DVD crack
3. Install WinRar & RegCleaner
4. Launch RegCleaner and remove GTA SA regkey
5. On RegCleaner go to 'Backup' tab, select removed GTA SA regkey
6. Right click, choose 'View with notepad'
7. In notepad, save the file into GTA SA installation folder with name Gtasa.reg

Oki now..

If I would like to go about something like this with Far Cry is that possible? And if so, how will I know what file/files to remove/backup in RegCleaner (newbie on that program). Is threre a way to know?

[Grumpy]

@TokNinjan
Read here for the Farcry DVD to CD conversion.

[TokNinjan]

Pheeewwww!! Easy getting messy with the files there but...
Thanx a bunch grumpy!

It works now. But there are som minor errors I don't know where they come from. For instance; on each disc promt the installer says "please insert disc: license.txt" ( ??!!) and it installs the files backwards (??!!) i.e cab5, cab4 etc. However it doesn't affect the disc order (as i've renamed them) or anything ells of the rest of the installation. I've tested the game a couple of times.

Otherwise, as far as I can see, I did what was said in the referense post, using SDK and changing the msi with Orca in the media tag. Never used none of em before.

Is this somthing that can be done the same way on other games or is this method only unique for FarCry?

Anyway I'm happy as it is - look!! > Again, thanx! !

[Grumpy]

If you copy the 'license.txt' to each seperate CD then that 'should' maybe stop that message showing on each disc prompt. (Thats the easy way around it)
The Farcry method wont work for all DVD games but 'should' work for any game which uses an MSI file.