Act of War REAL DVD5 Conversion!

[scaramonga]

For those that have BOUGHT the excellent 'Act Of War - Direct Action'.......you will know its a DVD9 disk - 5Gb+...........to back this up.....your kinda stuck if you don't have a DL burner or DL disks!!

Well.....fear not!.........lets get that baby onto a normal 4.7Gb DVD!

We do this by removing the 'language' data you don't need........and here is my guide for doin so.........

(note - this is to keep the English data only)

1 - Copy all contents of your original DVD to a Temp-Folder on your harddisk.

2 - Goto Video folder and delete all files EXCEPT cutscene_00.avi.....Eng_cutscene_00.wav and mplayerc.exe.

DELETE Language (readme.txt) files from Root.

DELETE Manuals/Acrobat files from Manuals except English.

3 - Download i6comp .

3 - Extract the i6comp to the Art Of War root directory.

4 - Go into the 'release' folder and cut or copy the i6comp.exe and paste it into the root dir of AOW.

5 - Get the cmd prompt up and navigate to the AOW root dir.

6 - Get the DOS fingers out.....copy and paste in the commands listed below................

i6comp d data2.cab 90 datav_fr.dat

i6comp d data2.cab 91 datas_fr.dat

i6comp d data2.cab 92 datav_de.dat

i6comp d data2.cab 93 datas_de.dat

i6comp d data2.cab 94 datav_it.dat

i6comp d data2.cab 95 datas_it.dat

i6comp d data2.cab 96 datav_es.dat

i6comp d data2.cab 97 datav_es.dat

7 - Once this is all done......check the filesize of the whole AOW folder.....it should be about 3.36 GB!

8 - Go into the AOW dir and delete all the i6comp folders and files so in total after this is done you should have 23 Items.

9 - Open up WinIso/UltraIso and create an iso of the files and folders.

Burn to normal 4.7Gb DVD!

Works fine and dandy ho!!

[Optimummind]

I can confirm that this method indeed works. The game installs and plays fine.

It shrunk my installation by nearly 2GB!

Thx for the guide!

[scaramonga]

Thank you!

[mojo8850]

Hey That's Excellent..!

I Used Winpack 3.00 Worked Like A Charm

But Thanks For The Tip.!

[mongo]

yes this is a better conversion ( forgot about the cmd promt had to get dos for dummies out )

worked and installed and verified

[mojo8850]

Well Well Well..!

After Using Winpack Compiling The ISO File Mount The Image.!
Run Setup BOOOMM!!!!

CRC Error.!

So I Guess Winpack Is Not So Good After All

[scaramonga]

Can't beat good old DOS......

Another tip...........

Download the 19Mb patch and add it to the same disk!..........

[LeatherFac3]

Originally Posted by mojo8850

Well Well Well..!

After Using Winpack Compiling The ISO File Mount The Image.!
Run Setup BOOOMM!!!!

CRC Error.!

So I Guess Winpack Is Not So Good After All

i don´t know why to compile a .iso for testing it. i´ve tried it also (after compiling it to .iso) and i get the crc error too. but installing direclty from the temp dir worked. also the direct ISO burning to a silver worked for me. i bet, that the .iso compiling stuff isn´t working right. i´ve tried magiciso, etc.

regards

[PanterA]

Hi, I followed the instructions at the first part of the thread about making myself a backup of my copy of Act of War. If I try to install the game with my backup I get a CRC error on datag.dat. Any ideas on what I can do to resolve this?

Thanks in advance!

[CVL4317]

just one question that still in mind ,
can i play the game without cracking the game?
because i dont see you mentioning about the protection.

[scaramonga]

can i play the game without cracking the game? because i dont see you mentioning about the protection.

Shouldn't be a problem if you have the 'original'??

[CVL4317]

i will get the original one soon ...

i just dont like to use the original CD to play , ( i can scratch it some how)
so ,. it's really important for me to have a back-up

[GLH]

There is a crack on GameCopyWorld.

[Leechasd]

Could not open data1.hdr
InstallShield 6.x Cabinet Util
Version 0.2 -] fOSSiL & Morlac - 2000 [-

Could not open data1.hdr
InstallShield 6.x Cabinet Util
Version 0.2 -] fOSSiL & Morlac - 2000 [-

Could not open data1.hdr
InstallShield 6.x Cabinet Util
Version 0.2 -] fOSSiL & Morlac - 2000 [-

Could not open data1.hdr
COMPLETE - ENJOY!
Press any key to continue . . .

I get this repeated msg if I try to run the i6comp d command or this patch.bat that does all that for me in one command. What is wrong? If anyone knows of a solution please help

*Note: I also tried Winpack. Got to the datacabs and saw the foreign language groups. Tried to delete with Delete a group command. It did the dos commands as mentioned but I think it uses i6comp.exe as well and didn't disappear after the command to Delete a group was initiated.

Also my 'data1.hdr is 20.8kb so I dunno if anything is wrong with it... Maybe someone can post there data1.hdr here since its a small file.

[liord]

Hello all,
I tried to use this guide but I ran into a problem when trying to use the i6comp.exe file through the command prompt. I got this error:

"This does not look like IShield 6 cab =)
Are u sure u know what u are doing ?"

I tried 2 different versions of i6comp and they both would give me this error.
What can be done in this case?

Thanks!!