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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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
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...
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.
Use this one by Irishmile instead. :P
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?
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.
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.
You could even put in your installer the option to reinstall Steam.
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.
So, does that make 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.
Oh ok. Sorry for my stupidity:p So that install creator will do all that then? That's fine and dandy with me.
Do our bidding, minion!
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.
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