Trouble Editing Cab File From Indigo Prophecy

[OliverMaltby]

Hi, with the release of the Indigo Prophecy no-cd by Reloaded I decided to try and "pre-crack" the game. I have done this many times, although I have only replaced a game exe with a no-cd in a Cab file once before (Warhammer - Dawn of War). I used "CABARC.EXE" to extract the file "GameDa~1.cab" (which contained the game exe). I then replaced the exe with Reloaded's no-cd exe and rebuilt a cab called "GameDa~1.cab". I attempted to install the game but failed due to an error saying something along the lines of "setup cannot find __quantic_dream__.url in the GameDa~1.cab file". Of course I thought I had incorrectly wrote the filelist.txt file - however it was identical to the file layout of the original cab. Could anyone possibly help me?

(BTW - I used the same "technique" to create the new cab as Grumpy wrote how to edit the Warhammer cab).

[Morglum007]

If u do so without any order it wont work. Some cabinets are designet to be extracted in an usual way. If u compress file with another order it wont work. Grumpy will help u more, cause i havent time to do so. Sorry. At least u have the why response.

[OliverMaltby]

Thanks for the reply Morglum, I did indeed create the same order as the original cab. Could someone post their filelist and line of code for CabARC so that I know its not something simple?

[BarryB]

I managed help a US mate convert this to a DVD and integrate the v1.1 patch/crack without any problem using CABARC from the CABSDK downloaded from Microsoft

You'll also need an MSI Installer file editor like Orca or Total Commander with the MSI-Plus plugin.

If you like long complicated explanations then what we did was this:

1. Installed the game and patched it to v1.1, the patch just installs 2 game files: 'Indigo Prophecy.exe' and 'obj\bytecode.btc', you don't really need the Readme file the patch installs.
2. Edited the 'Indigo Prophecy.msi' from CD1 with Total Commander + MSI-Plus plugin (you can use Orca or any other MSI editor) and deleted the 'Indigo CD1' 'Indigo CD2' and 'Indigo CD3' entries from the MEDIA file in the TABLES section. Saved this edited file somewhere safe!
3. Extracted GameDa~1.cab from CD1 to a temp directory.
4. Created a file 'list.txt' in the correct order of the GameDa~1.cab. If you use Winrar to open the CAB file make sure the 'sort by' view is set to 'Original order' (same for Winzip) then the files appear in the correct order and helps you write a file list, but you can use this one:

bigfile_pc.idm
__quantic_dream__.url
readme.txt
indigo_prophecy.ini
bigfile_pc.d02
__indigo_prohecy__.url
__atari__.url
bytecode.btc
binkw32.dll
indigo_prophecy.exe
mfc70.dll
rolldemo.bik
nvidia.bik
logoquan.bik
logoatar.bik
bonus05.bik
bonus04.bik
bonus03.bik
bonus02.bik
bonus01.bik
msvcp70.dll
stlport_vc745.dll
msvcr70.dll

5. Copied CABARC.EXE (from the downloaded CABSDK.EXE archive from MS site) and the file 'list.txt' into the same directory as the temp extracted files.
6. Opened the installed game directory and copied the 'obj/bytecode.btc' file (remember to apply the v1.1 patch) to the temp folder, overwrote the original file.
7. Renamed the Reloaded v1.1 Crack to 'indigo_prophecy.exe' and copied it to the temp folder too, overwrote the original file.
8. Edited the 'indigo_prophecy.ini' file and changed 'USMode=1' to 'USMode=0' as this apparently enables some sex scenes that were in the Euro version. Not tested this or confirmed but you can try it or leave it alone.
9. Started a command prompt and navigated to the same directory as the temp files and typed in this command: Cabarc n GameDa~1.cab @list.txt and hit RETURN. After a few minutes or so we had a new GameDa~1.cab archive.

So, you can now use this new CAB file and the edited MSI Installer file to make a new DVD pre-patched and cracked to v1.1! Just copy CD1 to a new folder along with the CAB files from CD2 and CD3. Replace the GameDa~1.cab with your newly created one and the 'Indigo Prophecy.msi' with your edited one and burn the files to a Re-Writeable DVD and test the install. If it works for you, burn to DVD-R/+R

Hope you can follow all that, it did work for my American mate!

[OliverMaltby]

Wow, thanks for that BarryB I did manage to finally get the cab working this morning, but your explaination allows me to integrate the patch so I don't have to do anything post-installation. Thanks alot

[BarryB]

No problem, glad you understood all that waffle I wrote

[Grumpy]

Grumpy will help u more,

Hmmm, I seemed to have missed this one!?
Thanks Barry

[OliverMaltby]

There is one other small thing that you or BarryB might be able to help me with. Indigo Prophecy comes with a "Quiz" program, on mine there are large blocks next to each question which "distort" the rest of the pic. I was wondering if yours happens to also do this, and if there is any possible fix?

Also, is there any way to stop the registry screen appearing after installing the game? Or is it only on EA games that you can do this?

[BarryB]

I'll have to ask my mate about the Quiz but it sounds like a video driver glitch.

As for the registration screen, I think that's bulit into the installshield/MSI installer and can't be edited.

[OliverMaltby]

Thanks for the info mate

[BarryB]

Well, you CAN stop the Registration screen appearing

Edit the 'Indigo Prophecy.msi', open the TABLES section, edit CustomAction and delete this text:

UserRegistration 1218 NewBinary22 /PRNM="Indigo Prophecy" /PRMP="INDP" /SKUN="PCXX" /GTYP="ADVT"

And to stop the Quiz popping up remove this text:

Quizz 194 NewBinary19

And to sop the music playing during install remove this text:

PlayMusic 1 ISScriptBridge.dll f1

[Grumpy]

@OliverMaltby
I dont actually have the game so no I can not really offer much help with it.

[OliverMaltby]

Originally Posted by Grumpy

@OliverMaltby
I dont actually have the game so no I can not really offer much help with it.

No worries Grumpy

Well, you CAN stop the Registration screen appearing

Edit the 'Indigo Prophecy.msi', open the TABLES section, edit CustomAction and delete this text:

UserRegistration 1218 NewBinary22 /PRNM="Indigo Prophecy" /PRMP="INDP" /SKUN="PCXX" /GTYP="ADVT"

And to stop the Quiz popping up remove this text:

Quizz 194 NewBinary19

And to sop the music playing during install remove this text:

PlayMusic 1 ISScriptBridge.dll f1

Your a diamond mate, thanks alot for this!

[L.A.]

I'm having problem with cab creation, when i try to create cab file using instructions, i get error mesage: Error reading list of files from 'list.txt'. What i'm doing wrong? i use cabarc (version 1.00.0601).

[BarryB]

Sounds like you are not running cabarc from the same folder as the list.txt file!

Make sure the cabarc.exe, list.txt (cut and paste it from my post above) and all the extracted/replaced files are in the same directory when you run the cabarc command! Also make sure you have navigated to the same folder as all the files when issuing the cabarc command!

E.G. if you have extracted all files to a TEMP folder called c:\Indigo then you must copy the cabarc.exe and list text into the c:\Indigo folder. When you open a command prompt window you type c:\ and press return (to make sure you are working from the correct drive), then type cd c:\indigo and press return to change the path level to c:\Indigo in the command prompt window, now you can run the Cabarc n GameDa~1.cab @list.txt command and create the CAB file!