Who's making their own DVD cases for the SEs?

Anybody? I did it back when Monkey 2 was first announced. Anyone got any covers they'd like to share?
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  • edited June 2010
    how can you? you can't put it on a disc, can you?
  • edited June 2010
    how can you? you can't put it on a disc, can you?

    Yeah, you just go into steam, right click on the game task and click "backup game files" and put them on the disc.
  • edited July 2010
    its to large for a cd
  • edited July 2010
    Yeah, you just go into steam, right click on the game task and click "backup game files" and put them on the disc.

    ok then... i wouldnt... but you can send me a backup disc if you want!:D:D:D:D:D
  • edited July 2010
    jermy52 wrote: »
    its to large for a cd
    Not for a DVD. Especially a dual-layered DVD.
  • edited July 2010
    Already done this.
    I'm thinking of redoing the disc label, but that's not hard to do.
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    My thanks to Parabolee, MusicallyInspired and Cyphox (and by extension, Laserschwert.)


    I think I may be finished for now. It looks decent, I guess, but it's hard to tell when I critique my own work. I am quite satistfied with the result, though.

    I do still need to print the labels and physically attach them, however I don't have the proper supplies on hand to do so, so I'm going to visit FedexKinko's today to see if they can print it out on the proper material.... Here's hoping that the folding lines match up to the case. =)

    Case:
    somidvdboxart1.png


    Disc:
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    Zipped large versions:
    http://www.mediafire.com/file/jnwu3dznzoy/somise_dvdboxart.zip
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    I went to FedExKinko's, and they took one look at both images and said that they couldn't print them out: 1) because they both have copyright info written on them and 2) they said even if the images didn't have copyright info on them, they still look too professional to not be questionable. Hmph. I just want one or two fricken DVD case inserts and disc labels. -.- I'm not selling it for a profit nor defaming anyone. Not to mention I do actually own a copy of the game.

    Anyways, I went to Office Depot to see if they had supplies for me to do it myself (though my printer is currently out of commission so idk whose color printer I would use,) and ended up asking questions to the girl behind the Copy/Print counter. I didn't show her the images at that time, but she said that so long as they didn't have copyright stuff written on them, then they would probably be fine. So... I went back and edited the images to remove the copyright text, just in case they'd turn me down (I didn't really want to, but when the price is $4 for them to do it, versus however much quite a bit more money for me end up buying extra supplies I won't use, what other choice do I have?) When I gave them the images, they printed it all right up and it looks great.

    Please people don't flame or sue me for removing the copyright wording.


    Here are the images of the box:

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    I'll update this post when I put the label on the disc, but until then, here is the sheet it's on. Note that I have removed the center section on one of them to show more of what will appear on the disc. (Yes, the guy did print them a bit too large and slightly off center, but it still looks great so I'm not complaining.)

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    I built an installer, gathered extras and burned a DVD...

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    The "Extra Software for VGA or EGA versions" folder has ScummVM and DOSBox installers in it in case they are needed. The VLC folder has a portable copy of VLC so that the installer can run the trailer without encountering codec problems.
  • edited July 2010
    If I were to make a DVD and case for MI2SE, on the front I would use the SE cover art that was reworked by various TTG forumites:

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  • edited July 2010
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    Use this one by Irishmile instead. :P
  • edited July 2010
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    Already done this.
    I'm thinking of redoing the disc label, but that's not hard to do.







    I built an installer, gathered extras and burned a DVD...

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    The "Extra Software for VGA or EGA versions" folder has ScummVM and DOSBox installers in it in case they are needed. The VLC folder has a portable copy of VLC so that the installer can run the trailer without encountering codec problems.
    How did you make that installer? I gotta get me one of those!
  • edited July 2010
    How did you make that installer? I gotta get me one of those!

    For the installer, I used Install Creator by ClickTeam. I think I learned of it from this page's list of setup builders after googling 'best free setup'. I did try to use NSIS, but I couldn't get a very quick handle on it and was more interested in spending my time working on building the installer than trying to figure out how to work the program that builds it.


    For the SMISE files, I do already own a legal copy of it bought via Steam, and so downloaded a Steam-free copy from a torrent (it's a single player game anyway and I dislike having the client open all the time just to play an offline single-player game.) btw, TTG's version wasn't available at the time that I did this.


    To summarize how I set up the installer, I set up the classic EGA and VGA versions to work under their own separate portable copies of ScummVM, and told the installer to make the created shortcuts use the included ini files. That way the classic versions will work whether you originally had ScummVM installed or not. Getting the SE version to work was the easy part. It didn't seem to care which folder it was put in, and would automatically create user preference files if they didn't exist. I didn't have to mess with its config files at all. Oh, I did include Lord Trilobites fixes and mods though, but that just means adding extra files, not modifying anything.


    You can somehow tell the builder to have the installer edit ini files and stuff depending on where the files are installed to, but I set it up so I didn't need to mess with that.

    If you need more detailed info, I can elaborate further.
  • edited July 2010
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    For the installer, I used Install Creator by ClickTeam. I think I learned of it from this page's list of setup builders after googling 'best free setup'. I did try to use NSIS, but I couldn't get a very quick handle on it and was more interested in spending my time working on building the installer than trying to figure out how to work the program that builds it.


    For the SMISE files, I do already own a legal copy of it bought via Steam, and so downloaded a Steam-free copy from a torrent (it's a single player game anyway and I dislike having the client open all the time just to play an offline single-player game.) btw, TTG's version wasn't available at the time that I did this.


    To summarize how I set up the installer, I set up the classic EGA and VGA versions to work under their own separate portable copies of ScummVM, and told the installer to make the created shortcuts use the included ini files. That way the classic versions will work whether you originally had ScummVM installed or not. Getting the SE version to work was the easy part. It didn't seem to care which folder it was put in, and would automatically create user preference files if they didn't exist. I didn't have to mess with its config files at all. Oh, I did include Lord Trilobites fixes and mods though, but that just means adding extra files, not modifying anything.


    You can somehow tell the builder to have the installer edit ini files and stuff depending on where the files are installed to, but I set it up so I didn't need to mess with that.

    If you need more detailed info, I can elaborate further.

    Ok, awesome. You know you could have just backed up your steam files. Anyways, I'm only really interested in putting the SEs onto discs. I've made sovers for both games, I just need to put them onto a disc for easy installation. I'm just wondering, how did you get the picture on the side part of the install program?
  • edited July 2010
    Ok, awesome. You know you could have just backed up your steam files. Anyways, I'm only really interested in putting the SEs onto discs. I've made covers for both games, I just need to put them onto a disc for easy installation. I'm just wondering, how did you get the picture on the side part of the install program?

    I suspect that it would have ultimately made me reinstall Steam if I used it on a machine that didn't have it. I don't want that.

    As I recall, I put the pictures on the side and top by opening a preview pane of one of the screens, clicking on the left or top (where there already was an image) and being given options to change the image to something else and/or the dimensions of the area it's contained in.

    With how I used the setup builder, it seems that what the installer primarily does is just automatically extract files to a specified place. It's just more versatile than a self-extracting zip file because you can tell different files to go to different places.
  • edited July 2010
    If you backed up the files onto a DVD how would you go about getting them back onto a computer? Drag and drop?
  • edited July 2010
    prizna wrote: »
    If you backed up the files onto a DVD how would you go about getting them back onto a computer? Drag and drop?

    I assume so. Also I forgot to mention you would probably need some kind of crack if you didn't want to use steam (is that still bad even though you bought the game? If so, disregard that). As for me, I don't really care if I need steam, so I might throw that in with my installer, as well as a word doc for my username and password.
  • edited July 2010
    You wouldn't need to drag and drop, just make a program (even a .bat file would work if you didn't compress the files) that copies the game back into Steam's game folder.

    You could even put in your installer the option to reinstall Steam.
  • edited July 2010
    Well I have it on steam and from telltale (i use the telltale one) so all Ive done is backup my install and save files on my thumb drive.
  • edited July 2010
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    You wouldn't need to drag and drop, just make a program (even a .bat file would work if you didn't compress the files) that copies the game back into Steam's game folder.

    I'm really confused. What if you just copied the game to a directory (let's say desktop) and you didn't have Steam, and then you opened the shortcut, would the game not even start?
  • edited July 2010
    I'm really confused. What if you just copied the game to a directory (let's say desktop) and you didn't have Steam, and then you opened the shortcut, would the game not even start?

    If it's the version from Steam, no it wouldn't work. For one thing, the game shortcuts that Steam automatically creates don't point to a game's executable. They point to Steam itself with some sort of numeric value afterward which tells Steam which game you want to play.

    I'm saying you can tell an installer or a self-extracting zip file or a .bat/.cmd file to copy files to a certain place, and in such a case as a Steam game, you can tell it to copy/extract the files to the folder where Steam stores game files, and also tell it to extract and run the installer for Steam (perhaps even before it extracts the game files) if you need it to do that to get the game to work.
  • edited July 2010
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    If it's the version from Steam, no it wouldn't work. I'm saying you can tell an installer or a self-extracting zip file or a .bat/.cmd file to copy files to a certain place, and in such a case as a Steam game, you can tell it to copy/extract the files to the folder where Steam stores game files, and also tell it to extract and run the installer for Steam (perhaps even before it extracts the game files) if you need it to do that to get the game to work.

    So, does that make it Steamless?
  • edited July 2010
    I wonder if I'm the only one following what Chyron has been saying.
  • edited July 2010
    No. I'm not talking about making it Steamless.

    I'm saying that... say that you have a game that works right now with Steam and you want to back it up on disc. Why then can you not put the game files and Steam on the disc together, and set up a (potentially very simple) program of some sort that runs Steam's installer or copies the game's files to the folder Steam usually keeps them in or both?

    I'm saying that having to manually copy files and folders to move the game files off of a backup disc is unnecessary when you can tell a simple file to do it for you. You can even create an installer to do it, with the only difference being that an actual installer looks fancier.

    You may be confused by the fact that what I did and what you want to do are two different things since you want the game to continue to use Steam and I don't. I bought it on Steam because that was the only way to get it, and if you want the game to continue to use Steam, then you're probably confined to where Steam wants the files to go on your computer. This makes your situation different from mine as I can put the files anywhere I want and they will work while you can't.

    Nonetheless, copying files is copying files. If you do it manually yourself or if you tell a .bat file, a self-extractor or an installer to do it for you has the same result in the end. If you're going to the trouble to create a disc backup with a label and a nice looking case, you might as well create a file on the disc that copies the game for you when you tell it to.
  • edited July 2010
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    No. I'm not talking about making it Steamless.

    I'm saying that... say that you have a game that works right now with Steam and you want to back it up on disc. Why then can you not put the game files and Steam on the disc together, and set up a (potentially very simple) program of some sort that runs Steam's installer or copies the game's files to the folder Steam usually keeps them in or both?

    Oh ok. Sorry for my stupidity:p So that install creator will do all that then? That's fine and dandy with me.
  • edited July 2010
    Not a DVD case, but someone has made a jewel case for the Steam backup version at Steam Covers.
  • edited July 2010
    I never thought of that idea. I'll probably have Laserschwert design two box arts for me. :D
  • edited July 2010
    This thread has me so confused, yet at the same time reeling from the sheer awesome of it.
  • edited July 2010
    Mermaid wrote: »
    I never thought of that idea. I'll probably have Laserschwert design two box arts for me. :D
    Is that so, honey? shifty_eyes.gif
  • edited July 2010
    Is that so, honey? shifty_eyes.gif

    Do our bidding, minion!
  • edited July 2010
    Is that so, honey? shifty_eyes.gif

    Well, I never got that A3 HD glossy print of your Tales of Monkey Island poster from you, thus I had do the printing myself with the highest resolution you provided us with so I could have it framed on the wall right next to me (it's really there).
    Go design that box art(s) and I will accept it for compensation. :)
  • edited July 2010
    Mermaid wrote: »
    Well, I never got that A3 HD glossy print of your Tales of Monkey Island poster from you, thus I had do the printing myself with the highest resolution you provided us with so I could have it framed on the wall right next to me (it's really there).
    Go design that box art(s) and I will accept it for compensation. :)
    Um ehrlich zu sein, hatte ich tatsächlich mit dem Gedanken gespielt, dir einen Print des Posters zum Geburtstag zu schenken... dafür hätte ich aber natürlich erstmal sowohl deinen Geburtstag als auch deine Adresse (natürlich auf völlig legalem Weg) herausbekommen müssen. Aber das hat sich ja jetzt erledigt... puh! :D
  • edited July 2010
    Um ehrlich zu sein, hatte ich tatsächlich mit dem Gedanken gespielt, dir einen Print des Posters zum Geburtstag zu schenken... dafür hätte ich aber natürlich erstmal sowohl deinen Geburtstag als auch deine Adresse (natürlich auf völlig legalem Weg) herausbekommen müssen. Aber das hat sich ja jetzt erledigt... puh! :D

    Was muss es schwer sein, so ne PM zu schicken... :rolleyes:
  • edited July 2010
    Gute Frau, dann wäre die Überraschung doch futsch gewesen!
  • edited July 2010
    ...dafür hätte ich aber natürlich erstmal sowohl deinen Geburtstag als auch deine Adresse (natürlich auf völlig legalem Weg)...

    Hast du oft dieser Informationen illegal bekommen?
  • edited July 2010
    alexonfyre wrote: »
    Hast du oft dieser Informationen illegal bekommen?
    Ich wüsste nichtmal, wie man das anstellen würde...
  • edited July 2010
    Ich wüsste nichtmal, wie man das anstellen würde...

    Naturlich....
    <.<
    >.>
  • edited July 2010
    Ich wüsste nichtmal, wie man das anstellen würde...
    "Soziale Ingenieurskunst"... :p

    np: Burger/Ink - Flesh & Bleed (Las Vegas 2010)
  • edited July 2010
    Hmmm... this is discomforting. You guys could be saying anything about your fellow, non-German-speaking forumites.
  • edited July 2010
    Yeah, because we're assholes, right...
  • edited July 2010
    Luckily, Google translator is here to save the day...
  • edited July 2010
    Are the German people here making German DVD boxes too, or are they/you just going to use the English ones? Or none at all?
  • edited July 2010
    Is it confirmed, that MI2:SE is multilingual? I know the first SE is...
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