resident evil 1 director's cut nocd

[pokopo]

tried posting in the pc game fixes section of their forum,but the thread is not online yet (needs to be approved by a moderator first),and that aside,the forum looks quite dead.perhaps I should try sending a pm,or a direct mail.

I'm going through old backups right now,I'm pretty sure I had the file somewhere at some point,but it is looking hopeless so far.

anyway,in case someone is willing to create a new nocd (I think the old one just skipped the movies,it did not allow playing them from the hdd),I have uploaded the unmodified executable here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/yjd5x6

the error message:



I believe there is no real cdcheck on the exe,its just that the path to the movies folder is hardcoded in the exe to point at the cd drive,changing it to ..\USA\ (the game files are in c:\games\RE\USA\,and I have copied the movies to the c:\games\RE\USA\MOVIE\ folder) or something like that would probably fix the issue.


thanks.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Well, first, there's a message "This game would be able to run only when Windows95." and, when it's hacked out, "Some of the data have been damaged. Please run Setup again." so uploading the main executable itself won't be enough. Read the PC Games forum FAQ on how to request cracks for old games.

[pokopo]

sorry,guess things are not as simple as I have imagined them.after a bit of trial and error,I was able to put together a build that should work as specified in the FAQ. here (2x100MB,packed with 7zip):
http://www.sendspace.com/file/fulkfl
http://www.sendspace.com/file/k2d4wk

howto:
1) extract the RE folder from the archive to C:\games\
2) set residentevil.exe to win95 compatibility (that will take care of the first error you mentioned).
3) run the reg file.it will create the required entries in the registry so you will not get that "data damaged" error (the entries are in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CAPCOM\RESIDENT EVIL,to "uninstall" the build just delete the RESIDENT EVIL branch).

first,this will probably only work for xp (thats what I'm using).second,I had to remove most of the videos to cut down the size as much as possible,but the first three are included (MOVIE folder),so you should be able to get into the first few game screens as long as the movie path in the exe is properly modified.


thank you for your patience.