The Cursed Crusade (DVD9 -> DVD5)

[BAMsE]

The Cursed Crusade DVD9 -> DVD5


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At the very first biggest greetz fly to yener90 'coz this conversion uses his installer.
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All mesures on Core2Duo [email protected]

NOTE: Files needed can be found in Post #23

1. Install the game

2. Download TCC_DVD5_v.2.rar, extract to TEMP folder
Note: See Post #23 for file.

3. go to:
{game_folder}\Win32\SOUNDS\VOICE

leave:
prefered lang folder
delete:
rest lang folders

4. go to:
{game_folder}\Common\SOUNDS\VOICE

leave:
prefered lang folder
delete:
rest lang folders

5. go to:
{game_folder}\Win32\PAC

search and delete in all subfolders:
*_XX.* ('XX' can be FR, GE, IT, POL, RU, SP)
leave only:
*_EN.* and, if exists, *_YOUR_LANG.*

scr4.jpg

6.

move:
{game_folder}\Redist
to:
TCC_DVD5

7 (UPDATED). install WinRAR

copy:
winrar.exe
to:
{game_folder}

download 1#convert.rar, extract to {game_folder} and run:
Note: See Post #23 for file.

1#convert.bat

(convert time: ~7min)

8. run FreeArc, compress content of {game_folder}

archive name: data1.cab
compression: -mx -ld256m
SFX: not checked

(final size: ~3.37GB, pack time: ~1h 20min, unpack time: ~9min)

9.

move:
data1.cab
to:
TCC_DVD5

10 (UPDATED). download 2#convert.rar, extract to TEMP folder
Note: See Post #23 for file.

copy:
winrar.exe
to:
TEMP

run FreeArc, compress 2#convert.bat and winrar.exe

archive name: data2.cab
compression: -m0
SFX: not checked

11 (UPDATED).

move:
data2.cab
to:
TCC_DVD5

12. Make iso/burn content of TCC_DVD5 folder with any label

scr1.jpg

scr2.jpg

scr3.jpg

UPDATE: there was some issue with WinRAR on certain cases (thx MATRIXOMER). Added registry key to slove it

Note: See Post #23 for files.

[pakrat2k2]

congrats, another nice conversion done, will have to say you've gotten very good using yener's source to get these dvd9 to dvd5. will have to test this out on W7x64 see it turns out.

[BAMsE]

It's not my credit anymore. All thanks to yener90 and his easy like f... (no matter like what ) installer. Moreover my scripting abilities are such poor that you're pushed to watch this ugly WinRAR window instead of some nice looking gauge. Of course all repack can be done in background (inno's "runhidden" switch won't run but WinRAR has -ibck switch) but there are few minutes when nothing is happened on the screen so probably half of users will kill the setup by task manager

BTW: I realize that commandline 7zip would be better then WinRAR but I can't find any suitable switches for "repack all *.zip in all subfolders from 'nocomp' to 'lightcomp'". If you know some please post it to earn some credits if it'll be working

[yener90]

dude...if you use the newest version of custom installer, it supports RAR and 7z.
did it need to be zip??
then you wouldnt need to make a custom extractor

[eliwodkung]

when i extract convert to install dir and run 1#convert.bat




am i doing wrong?

[BAMsE]

@yener90: game uses zipped files with light compression (which are poor compressed by freearc) so I decided to change its compression to zero (now they are much more 'freearced'). During instalation they need to be light-zipped (uncompressed or unzipped arn't recognized by game).

@eliwodkung: it's all OK, just my laziness during renaming files You can continue conversion. I'll fix it in next hours.

[yener90]

ok bro. didnt realize

[eliwodkung]

OK. Thanks ^^

[eliwodkung]

i follow step 8. but i can't find compression: -mx -ld256m

[pakrat2k2]

you can use any of them you want.. use -mx -ld800m

[BAMsE]

'convert.rar' updated. Although if you have done step 7. with previous one you don't need do this again.

@eliwodkung you don't have to choose preset from list, you may write your own. Just type '-mx -ld256m' in this line (without quotes). Of course you can use -ld800m which gives 2.75GB after 1' 40" compression

[MATRIXOMER]

compression final dvd (data1.cab) size 6.1 gb ?

[BAMsE]

@MATRIXOMER did you properly done step 7? If yes there should be, for example, "engine.zip" (size 46 996 829 bytes) instead of "engine.pac" in Win32\PAC folder

[MATRIXOMER]

[BAMsE]

@MATRIXOMER your zips are virgin *.pac (without any repack). Did you have winrar.exe in root of game folder while running 1#convert.bat ? Did you see this window?
Schowek02.jpg

Also 1#convert.bat and winrar.exe must be in game folder