I've read the guide here, but it's a little unclear to me.
I've used the installer by Enrico Rolfi to generate a dvd image of the Windows installer and could play that way, but I'd like to generate an image that I can use from DOSBox.
Has anyone done this before?
If so, could you help clarify what retro_codger means by
copy unisci to HD folder
? Does that mean having the previous installation of GB2 for Windows in place and then following those steps? Or does it mean having an empty HD folder and then following the steps?
Since those have the same file names, is the no-interlace patch that + the CD2DVD patches? The combined size is larger for the no-interlace patch so it sounds logical ...
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Note:
I realize I could probably rip all 6 cd isos and mount them all up in DOSBox, but I was trying to avoid the Ctrl-F4 step to swap "discs".
Create a folder on your harddrive to copy the CDs to and copy unisci to that same folder. I can't really say about the patches, as I can't download what is linked to see. Enrico does not have those files available on his page. Can you please post the download here and I would be happy to help?
That post is a little unclear. The idea is to join all of the resource.aud files from each disc together into one big resource.aud file, all of the resource.sfx files into one resource.sfx file, each resmap.00* file into one resmap.000 and each ressci.00* file into one ressci.000 file. See if the following is a little easier to understand.
Create a folder on your harddrive to join them, say c:\unisci.
Copy resource.aud from CD1 to c:\unisci and rename it resaud.001
Copy resource.aud from CD2 to c:\unisci and rename it resaud.002
Copy resource.aud from CD3 to c:\unisci and rename it resaud.003
Copy resource.aud from CD4 to c:\unisci and rename it resaud.004
Copy resource.aud from CD5 to c:\unisci and rename it resaud.005
Copy resource.aud from CD6 to c:\unisci and rename it resaud.006
Copy resource.sfx from CD1 to c:\unisci and rename it ressfx.001
Copy resource.sfx from CD2 to c:\unisci and rename it ressfx.002
Copy resource.sfx from CD3 to c:\unisci and rename it ressfx.003
Copy resource.sfx from CD4 to c:\unisci and rename it ressfx.004
Copy resource.sfx from CD5 to c:\unisci and rename it ressfx.005
Copy resource.sfx from CD6 to c:\unisci and rename it ressfx.006
Copy resmap.001 from CD1 to c:\unisci
Copy resmap.002 from CD2 to c:\unisci
Copy resmap.003 from CD3 to c:\unisci
Copy resmap.004 from CD4 to c:\unisci
Copy resmap.005 from CD5 to c:\unisci
Copy resmap.006 from CD6 to c:\unisci
Copy ressci.001 from CD1 to c:\unisci
Copy ressci.002 from CD2 to c:\unisci
Copy ressci.003 from CD3 to c:\unisci
Copy ressci.004 from CD4 to c:\unisci
Copy ressci.005 from CD5 to c:\unisci
Copy ressci.006 from CD6 to c:\unisci
Lastly, copy UniSCI.exe from the download to c:\unisci
You should now have 25 files in this folder. You are now ready to join the files. Go to Start > Run and type:
1c:\unisci\unisci -n:6
and press enter. UniSCI.exe will run and you will now see 4 new files in the c:\unisci
folder.
RESMAP.000
RESSCI.000
RESOURCE.AUD
RESOURCE.SFX
Copy the contents of all 6 CDs to another folder on your harddrive, overwriting any files from the previous discs. Move the above 4 joined files to the same folder that has all of the files from the CDs. The c:\unisci folder can now be deleted.
If you do not want to apply the No Interlace patch, copy the contents of the Rolfi__CD2DVD folder from the download to the game's folder, overwriting the existing files. If you do want to apply the No Interlace patch, copy the contents of the Rolfi__Interlace folder from the download instead, overwriting the existing files.
The No Interlace patch contains the same files as the CD2DVD patch in addition to a couple of other files. If you apply the No Interlace patch after the CD2DVD patch, the CD2DVD patch is completely overwritten.
I really appreciate your responses, and I don't mean to come across as dense, but I'm just trying to understand this.
The No Interlace patch contains the same files as the CD2DVD patch in addition to a couple of other files.
Alright, I got that part. They use the same file names.
If you apply the No Interlace patch after the CD2DVD patch, the CD2DVD patch is completely overwritten.
That would mean that if you apply the No Interlace patch after the CD2DVD patch, then you don't get the changes introduced in the CD2DVD patch?
To be honest I don't even know what the changes introduced in the CD2DVD patch are, I just took it (reading that thread on fileforums) that it was not optional and I didn't understand how the two could coexist unless the CD2DVD patch changes were somehow bundled into the files from the No Interlace patch.