Game CDs to DVD conversion?

[Grumpy]

To open cab files? Cant remember off hand but I'm sure Ive read that on Fileforums! just a matter of where exactly?
Just found your answer thanks to 'ghosthacker' and Morglum007'. They say 'i6comp' can edit cab files, go here: http://fileforums.com/showthread.php...highlight=orca
to read what they had to say

[Grumpy]

Well i finally worked out how I did the HTML thingy! I posted the text needed to open the Html page from the cd about 3 posts back! If you set the page up correctly you will have links on your page that when clicked on will go straight to the appropriate games setup.exe. B4 the setup starts you will see the download message window about "files of this sort can be harmful' and you will have the choice to download, install, cancel etc! Just like when you go to download something from the Net. Obviously you choose the 'Install' button! Now this is a simple way of putting 6 maybe 7 different games onto the one DVD. Hope thats not to cofusing!

[VanTokkern]

I have it all worked out mate, thanks tho
Have a look at this:



I stole Warhammer's autorun files, which let you alter the autorun in any way possible, hope they don't mind!!

I named my DVD, containing DOOM3, Rome: Total War and Warhammer 40000 Dawn of War, GameDVD (lack of creativity ) and the links you see in the autorun screeny are all linked to the games' autorun files. I have re-installed every single one of them from the DVD, and they work fine. All I did was alter the VolumeLabels in the MSI file. Proving my point about the installer looking for the files in it's home directory.
Only one thing left till perfection; getting Dawn of Wars cracked exe into that damned cab file. I noticed you edited your post, I'll check it out when I get back from the movies, thanks again!!

[Luciel]

*bows to VanTokkern" veeeery nice.

[Grumpy]

Very cool!!!
Can you post the contents of the inf file

EDIT: Dont worry someone else just sent them to me and it appears I need more than just the Autorun.inf file! Will continue to make html the hard way if i want something to look like that! Buy hey that really looks fantastic!! I liiiike it!!
I was hoping the files from Warhammer would save me some time by not having to make the html file from the beginning.

[The One]

An excellent program which I have used for making my own autorun.exe programs is Autoplay Media Studio Pro from IndigRose http://www.indigorose.com/ams/index.php
This is a quite expensive program but you can find bargain prices....if you know what I mean

You can use CabPack
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/english.htm
to edit .cab files but you have to save as new cabs. This program will not edit Installsheild cabs though.

For Installsheild cabs You need the ICOMP cab editor which can be found here http://cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/files.shtml. I have used this program many times to insert the cracked game executable into the setup cab and make a cracked setup and it will also extract files. ICOMP does not have a GUI, it command line based.

[RedOtober]

If you litraly copy all the contents of one disk into a folder of the same name on the DVD, it'll all run smoothly. I did it using the basic burning software on a G4 Mac and from the DVD onto my hard disk. Then i got the no cd patch. In a nutshell my DVD rom wasn't fast enough to run UT2k4 so this proved the best solution.

Originally Posted by Kyle2k

Hi everybody

My goal is to discuss here how to put multiple game CDs in a single DVD. In my opinion, forcing a backup using Daemon Tools (although is a great program), is not exactly my first choice. I think it would be great if we could create a single game DVD from multiple-cds games, with autorun and no more CD swaps during the install procedure .

I had success w/ a few games :

thief: deadly shadows
farcry, painkiller, doom3 (easy, as you all know)
XIII
diabloII & expansion
Star Wars KOTOR

...but i had no success with :

emperor: battle for dune (only with daemon tools)
the suffering
phantasmagoria I (even with daemon tools...)

Phantasmagoria is a 7-cd game, begging for a DVD backup (saves a lot of storage space!). Daemon Tools does not seems to work in this particular case, because at the end of the first chapter (CD#1), the game asks for the second CD.

So, if you have experience with a particular game, making a total DVD conversion, please post here your story!

Thank you all
Kyle2k

[VanTokkern]

If you wish to use the autorun files I used, get them here.

Don't forget to create a autorun.inf looking like this:
[autorun]
open=YourAutoRunFileHere.exe
icon=YourIconHere.ico (this can also be an exe file, it will use the pic the exe uses. I used the pic from a setup.exe as you can see in the screenie posted above.)

Open the ucs file with notepad. Here you can alter the links. Remember tho, the numbers in front of the links are important, you can use it to put the links in any order you like, just have a look at the following;
If you open autoplay.ini, and scroll to the bottom, under [links], you can change where you want the links to be linked to. Now look at the numbers in front of these links. Here's how you can change the order to anything you like.
Under [display] you can change the background pic, and the color/size/font the links should be. You can also change the window size.
Also read the instructions given in the autoplay.ini file, they're good hints.

[VanTokkern]

Originally Posted by The One

An excellent program which I have used for making my own autorun.exe programs is Autoplay Media Studio Pro from IndigRose http://www.indigorose.com/ams/index.php
This is a quite expensive program but you can find bargain prices....if you know what I mean

I got a great deal on this one Excellent program, thanks!!

Originally Posted by The One

You can use a CabPack
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/english.htm
to edit .cab files but you have to save as new cabs. This program will not edit Installsheild cabs though. You need the ICOMP cab editor which can be found somewhere on GCW in the tools section. I have used this program many times to insert the cracked game executable into the setup cab and make a cracked setup. This utility will also extract files. ICOMP does not have a GUI, it command line based.

This however did not work for me

[Grumpy]

@ Van Tokkern
Thanks m8, much appreciated.
Hope you enjoyed the movie.
And again top stuff!!

[Pandora's Box]

Kyle2k or anyone else is that has successfully done a Star Wars KOTOR cd to dvd conversion I was wondering how exectly you did it. When I attempted to do this I copied all 4 cds to my HD then left the cd label the same as the one on cd1 and burned it. It installs fine up until all the way through the 4th cd then it asks for disk 4 because it wants to install direct x .. to get around this I copied the autorun setup information file from the fourth cd overwriting the autorun file that was on cd1.. Now the game installs fine all the way through, but the problem is now when I put the game in my DVD drive the game does not autorun because I copied over the autorum file with the one from disk 4 to get it to install properly ... So my question to you is did you manage to find a way to get the game to both install properly and have the autorun work at the same time?

[The One]

Edit this part of the autorun.inf file

[Disk]
Disk=1
Label1=Disk1

So it looks like this:

[Disk]
Disk=4
Label4=Disk4

Only edit part of the autorun file and keep the rest of the autorun files from CD 1

[Kyle2k]

Thanks to u all for the kind posts - helped a lot!!

Need some help with a DVD backup for C&C Renegade (2 CDs); even Daemon Tools fails to install the game - at least with .CCD (clonecd) images of the game.

Or....pehaps you guys can tell me how can i convert a .ccd image to a .iso one (maybe it will work this time...)

Yours
Kyle2k

[union jack]

full isatall game say black hawke down
zip entire game
dunno if matters but years ago u had to have hidden filez shown if not they wouldnt get zipped then game wouldnt work
using this method might need delete config file
and dont forget to make all filez archive
ya machine cant rewrite a read only file

any one selling a phillips 2600 cd rec
ill buy it it will copy anything