howto: one click launch for your fav games[incl. SD4hide!]

[brucebeh]

Its a rough guide to what you need to do and an example .bat script for auto-mounting cd images for a one-click launching of your favorite games. [ideal for icafe owners]

This script includes sd4hide which will temporarily delete your scsi data from the registry and then replace it when the game is closed.

http://brucebeh.com/automount.htm

[stile]

Wow, it's a great idea and you can apply it to nearly every game.

Thx for the link

[AnalCobra]

I've made myself a batch file some kind of based on the sd4start.bat (thx to OverSoft),but it's German.

@ECHO OFF
CLS
ECHO __________________________________
ECHO Need for Speed Most Wanted Starter
ECHO __________________________________
ECHO von AnalCobra :-)
ECHO.

ECHO Der Secure Mode von DT sollte ausgeschaltet sein!!
ECHO.
  

ECHO Binde das NFS MW Image in DT ein...
CD C:\Programme\DAEMON Tools\
start daemon.exe -mount 0, "F:\Images\Games\Need For Speed Most Wanted\NFSMW.mds"
CD C:\
ECHO.


ECHO Sichere Registry Dateien...
REG EXPORT HKLM\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\Scsi backup.reg >NUL
ECHO Fertig
ECHO.


ECHO Loesche SCSI Eintraege in der Registry...
REG DELETE HKLM\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\Scsi /f >NUL
ECHO Fertig
ECHO.

ECHO Starte NFS MW und warte bis es beendet wird...
CD /D F:\Spiele\Need for Speed Most Wanted\
START /WAIT speed.exe
ECHO Druecke eine Taste wenn NFS MW beendet ist... 
PAUSE >NUL
CD /D C:\
ECHO.

ECHO Stelle Registry Dateien wieder her...
REG IMPORT backup.reg >NUL
DEL backup.reg >NUL
ECHO Fertig

ECHO Binde das Image wieder aus...
CD C:\Programme\DAEMON Tools\
START daemon.exe -unmount 0
ECHO Fertig
ECHO.


PAUSE

[Elektricity]

This is a vrilliant idea, however I can't get this to work! I have tried it on serval games with no luck, for example FEAR will give the error
Failed to initialize client - unabvle to load game resources.
All other games including NFS most wanted are giving a similar error.
I have tried putting a delay of 10 second in just incase and that made no difference.

The weird thing is, If I click the destop shortcut for the game straight after getting an error the game will launch fine so the mounting is OK.

I am using DT 4.0 if that makes any difference

[brucebeh]

This is a vrilliant idea, however I can't get this to work! I have tried it on serval games with no luck, for example FEAR will give the error
Failed to initialize client - unabvle to load game resources.
All other games including NFS most wanted are giving a similar error.
I have tried putting a delay of 10 second in just incase and that made no difference.

The weird thing is, If I click the destop shortcut for the game straight after getting an error the game will launch fine so the mounting is OK.

I am using DT 4.0 if that makes any difference

Hi,

Which script are you using? The one I posted or the one AnalCobra posted?

So after you get the error, the game still launches? Can you post your bat script and take a screenshot of the error?

Thanks

[AnalCobra]

This is a vrilliant idea, however I can't get this to work! I have tried it on serval games with no luck, for example FEAR will give the error
Failed to initialize client - unabvle to load game resources.
All other games including NFS most wanted are giving a similar error.
I have tried putting a delay of 10 second in just incase and that made no difference.

The weird thing is, If I click the destop shortcut for the game straight after getting an error the game will launch fine so the mounting is OK.

I am using DT 4.0 if that makes any difference

Have you tried my batcg-file, you only have to change the image direction, DAEMON Tools direction and NFS MW direction.
This only works for NFSMW i havn't tested it on other games, yet.

[Elektricity]

OK, I tried again today and it now works, very weird.
I am using AnalCobra's Config as a template.

I have a couple of questions

1. I am using DT 4 Do I still need to delete and restore items from the registry and will this allow my image to run without disabling My DVD drives

2. Is it possible to put another command in to disable autorun?

Thanks For your help so far

[brucebeh]

Glad one of ours worked for you.

Some people need to remove and restore items from registry when using DT4, some don't. I didn't bother upgrading to DT4 so I am using the registry thing. It should be safe, as long as you always keep a backup of the .reg file and make sure that never gets deleted. Even if it does, from my experience, when you do a restart, windows just rebuilds the SCSI folder in the registry like before so nothing really breaks.


You cannot put a command to disable autorun, I've tried that and unfortunately doesnt work, you'll just need to disable autorun entirely on the computer.

[al1uk]

i used the script, but when nfs loads up, it closes again, and the windows with all the options , play, uninstall, etc, comes up. i have to manually click play for it to work, and also put a little command in to make the script wait for a bit b4 continuing to restore drives. is there anyway to stop the windows from loading by itself???

[AnalCobra]

i used the script, but when nfs loads up, it closes again, and the windows with all the options , play, uninstall, etc, comes up. i have to manually click play for it to work, and also put a little command in to make the script wait for a bit b4 continuing to restore drives. is there anyway to stop the windows from loading by itself???

Which script did you use?
I have this prob with the manually starting, too with some script's. But with mine it works very good for me, just change the directory of DT, of the Image and the install directory of NFSMW. On my scipt the autorun sreen will also appear.
You could input a pause command to tell it to waiting for pressing a key. Just input PAUSE

[al1uk]

the link you posted above.
i tried using sd4 via cmd line. i always get the message there is no backup to restore, even though there is and it works if i manually run sdhider and click restore.

quote 4rm nfo:
│ │
│ COMMAND LiNE: │
│ sd4hide -hide Hides Virtual Drives │
│ sd4hide -restore Restores hidden data │
│ │
│ NFS:MW Example speed.bat: │
│ sd4hide -hide │
│ speed.exe │
│ sd4hide restore │
│

[AnalCobra]

I tried it with sd4hide 1.0 and 1.1, with 1.1 it worked.
Like this

"C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Simon\Desktop\sd4hide11-skl\sd4hide" -hide
pause
"C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Simon\Desktop\sd4hide11-skl\sd4hide" -restore

Or if the bat is in the same directory

START sd4hide -hide
pause
START sd4hide -restore

So use SD4hide v1.1

http://cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_utils_8.shtml#SafeDisc%204%20Hider

[al1uk]

finally got it to work. for some reason, the game wouldnt work if i did a direct link to the file speed.exe. had to add "cd" to browse to the dir.
finally got sdhider to work via cmd line as well. had to do that "cd" thing to get it working. it was doin my f**king head in, the same message over and over.
ill post the code below if anybodyz interested:

@ECHO OFF


echo.

echo LOADING NEED FOR SPEED MOST WANTED CD...

"C:\Program Files\Daemon Tools\daemon.exe" -unmount 0 -mount 0,"C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Games\NFSMW\Most Wanted.mdf"

echo.
echo NEED FOR SPEED MOST WANTED CD LOADED
echo.


echo NOW HIDING CD DRIVES... PLEASE WAIT...
echo.

cd C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Programs\

start sd4hide.exe -hide


echo LAUCHING GAME.....
echo.

cd C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Need for Speed Most Wanted

start speed.exe

sleep 10

echo.
echo RESTORING CD DRIVES...

cd C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Programs\

start sd4hide.exe -restore


echo.
echo THANK YOU

sleep 5

[scaramonga]

Brilliant!

Thx........works great

Any way to get rid of the popup message:



Many many thx!

[JoelEllison]

just turn off secure mode using the DT tray icon