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

[brucebeh]

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

Okay, your problem is you can't use sd4hide.exe -hide, theres no such command.SD4HIDE does NOT come with a command line interface. That's why you have to include the RED TEXT in the examble I posted, replace your sd4hide.exe start with the RED TEXT I posted and it should work.

The red text is pretty self explanatory, it basically does what sd4hide does WITHOUT sd4hide... see this for more details:

http://brucebeh.com/hidesd4hide.htm

[brucebeh]

Woops!!

MY BAD! I thought you didn't get it to work yet. Sorry. My bad.

Anyway, hopefully that post helps some other person

[al1uk]

It works perfectly now
get the latest safediskhider for command line usage.

@brucebeh: does the script you wrote autmatically replace the scsi.reg if it already exists from a previous launch??

[brucebeh]

It works perfectly now
get the latest safediskhider for command line usage.

@brucebeh: does the script you wrote autmatically replace the scsi.reg if it already exists from a previous launch??

I don't exactly understand what you mean but I'll try to answer you.


The script bascially backsup your existing SCSI information from the registry, if its not there, then this process will fail, so if you already had sd4hide running before using this script, that process will fail, but the game will still run.

Once the game closes then my script will import scsi.reg back into the registry, this can be the scsi.reg that my script made, or it can be the scsi.reg Sd4hide made, both will work as long as its called scsi.reg


So if you just use my script and not sd4hide, everything will delete and replace automatically when the game is launched and exited, basically at launch, the scsi data from the registry is backed up into scsi.reg, and at game exit, the same scsi.reg file is imported back into the registry.

The scsi.reg file NEVER gets deleted it will just get replaced, the reason I chose not to delete the scsi.reg file is in case the game crashes, you still have a scsi.reg file to import back into the registry.

[al1uk]

The scsi.reg file NEVER gets deleted it will just get replaced, the reason I chose not to delete the scsi.reg file is in case the game crashes, you still have a scsi.reg file to import back into the registry.

cheers, thats exactly what i wanted to know