The Bard's Tale (DVD9 to DVD5)

[Grumpy]

Original Poster: Stevi
Post Date: 21-06-2005

Make ISO of the game
Delete GERMAN audio files in SOUNDS folder, and save the ISO.
Now you have 5.5 GB. Then compress ISO with WinRAR (BEST compression), and split it on 7 parts (700 Mb each file, or whatever size you like).
Now you have 4.2 GB compressed ISO file. Then just burn those RAR files to DVD5 as DATA disk.

NOTE -

You must choose MINIMAL instalation at the beginning of install. When playing the game, just mount ISO in Daemon Tools...

[Grumpy]

Original Poster: mageguru
Post Date: 25-06-2005

OK, This is so you can do a COMPLETE installation and not have to keep the ISO image on your HD or keep it mounted...


In the folder <drive letter>:\The Bard's Tale\Res\Sounds\Summon\
There is a file called 'fighter.xwb' (this is the smallest file of this file type @ 64k).
You want to make 19 copies of this file, and then rename them to match the German version .xwb files. Then copy those to the Sounds directory, thus replaceing the huge files with 64k ones. This only adds 1.19mb to the total size.

Then you just follow the rest of Stevi's Instructions above, make an ISO, then rar, then burn.

But now you can do a COMPLETE install, then you can umount the image and remove the ISO from your HD, and play without having to keep an extra 5.5gb of data on your HD.

[Grumpy]

Original Poster: Gilfuin
Post Date: 14-07-2005

1. Extract the full DVD contents to a temp dir
2. Go RES>Sounds and erase all german (*_ge) files
3. Compress the folders RES>Levels and RES>Sounds using Winrar (comp method: best; split in 1GB parts if you want). Wait for 30-45 minutes.
4. Erase Levels and Sounds folders
5. Save the .rar file into a new folder with the noDVD crack. There is not more space for updates or anything.
6. Burn the DVD using any label
7. After instalation, unrar the files to RES again (10-15 min), apply crack, etc