Starcraft/Broodwar 1.15.1 & THINSTALL

[DABhand]

Dont think you will get much help on this.

Games are only for 1 pc only, unless you have multiple licenses for the games, which I dont think you have.

And your portable idea, im assuming is you putting games onto multiple machines.

[Joe Forster/STA]

I think it should be allowed to install a single game onto multiple computers of your own (not the spouse, children, neighbor etc.) and play one copy at a time. (Probably, it is implicitly or explicitly against the EULA, though...)

[jman06]

hmm....okay, thanks for the tips. I guess a lot of members here don't mess with portable software......that's depressing.

[jman06]

well...I finally got it working, portable edition, that is. I got 1.15.1, automatic switching between Starcraft and Broodwar, no-cd (obviously), battle.net working (with a legit key - so you gotta buy it), full videos and music, all under 1.2 GB. Not to shabby eh? Or I got the same thing also, but with the music and vids taken out, but at 300Mb+.

The unfortunate thing is that it isn't a Thinstall file (which would make everything one file). Cause as its standing - there is a bunch of files in the one folder and I prefer one with no sandboxing upon exit. I almost had it too - but for some reason Thinstall just doesn't want to take into account Razor 1911's hack.

[jman06]

Well I finally located the problem I believe in why it's not working on thinstall.

Check this out...

So when you install Razor 1911's crack of Broodwar 1.15.1 (which allows automatic swithing, no-cd, battle.net, music and vids) everything will work fine on that computer where you do it at. And of course you have to start Starcraft with the loader he gives you as well.

But...if you copy that folder say it's on C:\Starcraft to your desktop so now it's C:\Users\John Doe\Desktop\Starcraft as well, everything will be okay - that's if you run the loader from the desktop copy of starcraft. I thought, at this time, that the loader is loading up the starcraft.exe from the desktop. Nope! I was wrong it loads it up from the C:\Starcraft where you first installed the crack.

So let's say you rename the C:\Starcraft to C:\StarBroodwar and click on the "loader" from the desktop copy. It won't work. neither will the original folder work.

So for everything to work you have to keep it the same name...which points my problem to the registration entries added by Razor's crack. So the problem isn't Thinstall, at all! I just need to figure out how to fix this so the loader loads up from any folder (so even if you make a million copies of that folder and rename them all - the loader should still work regardless of where the folder is on your computer and what the name is of the folder; not currently of when you click on the "crack.exe" file and installes and says "registration entires complete" and then click on "loader.exe" it will ONLY work in that folder such as C:\Starcraft )- not where you first installed the crack.

make sense? if not I will clarify better. My english is poor, sorry.

in a nutshell - its the registration entries that need to be changed to wherever the folder is and not where you first click on "crack" and can ONLY be run from that folder.

any ideas from here?

PS - I'm not breaking rules by asking how to change settings within a hack. I'm not asking for registration keys, files, etc - I have everything I need. I just don't know programming very well and Razor's hack is set this one way and I'm trying to change it.

[jman06]

Originally Posted by DABhand

Dont think you will get much help on this.

Games are only for 1 pc only, unless you have multiple licenses for the games, which I dont think you have.

And your portable idea, im assuming is you putting games onto multiple machines.

and I actually have 3 licenses of the game. I bought one and the other two where given as gifts (the starcraft chest) (what I asked for my birthday) many many years ago.

[Joe Forster/STA]

I'm not using thinstall but archiving my (installed) games with RAR, with the necessary registry entries, instead. And I take great care to modify the registry entries, config files and sometimes executables, too, to make these "rips" work from any directory of any disk. (UnRAR the rip; import the registry file, if any; run the config program, if any; launch the game.)

Most of the time, this only means changing the appropriate registry entry to ".", ".\" or similar. The rips need to be launched directly from the directory they are "installed" so that that directory becomes the working directory (see "Start in" in the Properties window of a desktop icon for what the working directory is).