by kingliam » Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:02 am
This is probably an amateur or non-traditional way of doing this, but I think this would probably be the easiest/most simple/less time consuming:
Create a simple batch file to prompt and copy both CD's to a user-chosen directory. After copying both CD's to a folder, the batch file could replace the current executable with the edited one (to not look for the CDs or chunked files across the multiple CDs). Then the batch file could prompt the user whether or not they wanted to run the game off of their computer, or off of 1 DVD. If they chose the DVD, the batch file would exit, otherwise it would then mount the folder (with the contents of both CD) to a drive (e.g. drive y:). Last the batch file could edit whichever resource file that points to the cd drive (e.g. resource.win for lighthouse) and repoint it to the mounted folder, where the game would run out of (e.g. point to y:).
If the user chose to not play off of the computer, the user could then be instructed to copy all of the contents (of the folder where both CD's were copied) to a DVD.
This is probably confusing, but is just an idea--as it would be very simple to implement, once the executable was edited.