Cortilein Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 Hello BTS, I wonder if it is possible to "directly" access the single files for CMBB stored in compressed form in the big SETUP.EXE - I mean the contents of the BMP.EXE and WAV.EXE archives that are being processed during setup, containg all BMPs and WAVs. In fact, if one has installed modded graphics/sounds and want to switch back - do you have to go all the way back and do a re-install? Just to change back a single file to the default one? I really can't do a hundreds-of-megabytes backup everytime when checking out a new mod... I'd really appreciate info on this from BTS - thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Dog Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 Good question! It was trivial with CM:BO to reinstall BMPs or sound files if needed because of a screwed up mod, it would be nice to be able to extract an individual file off the CM:BB CD if needed rather than do a reinstall and trash any other mods you might have. Or is this a price we pay for LOTS more content? - Old Dog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cortilein Posted September 25, 2002 Author Share Posted September 25, 2002 *BUMP* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilhammer Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 I think our only recourse is to burn our current install of WAV and BMPs to a pair of CDs, and store them for just this purpose. That is what I have done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted September 25, 2002 Share Posted September 25, 2002 On the PC download and install WinRAR and you can open up the CMBB Installer file and extract single files if you want to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cortilein Posted September 26, 2002 Author Share Posted September 26, 2002 Well, now I'm confused... The latest version of WinRAR (v3.00) won't open the SETUP.EXE file ("No archives found in selected file and folder"). Maybe I should mention that I got the German version of CMBB distributed by CDV. There is one huge SETUP.EXE file on the CD-ROM that is processed by Install Shield during installation. It first unpacks HD.EXE, then BMP.EXE followed by WAV.EXE - which are subsequently being uncompressed and contain the respective single files. Finally, the scenario files and miscellaneous stuff are extracted. Is there anything I'm missing here? Any further help is very much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted September 26, 2002 Share Posted September 26, 2002 Yeah, I don't know what CDV is using to compress their installer. Since it brings up InstallSheild, it is an entirely different setup from the BFC distributed version (which is just a self-extracting RAR archive that extracts to a directory structure). You may have to contact CDV's support and ask them which archive utility will extract the files individually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewood Posted September 26, 2002 Share Posted September 26, 2002 My experience with WinRAR is that even if you only choose one file, it chaecks every file in the exe file. This takes just as long as re-installing. Originally posted by Schrullenhaft: Yeah, I don't know what CDV is using to compress their installer. Since it brings up InstallSheild, it is an entirely different setup from the BFC distributed version (which is just a self-extracting RAR archive that extracts to a directory structure). You may have to contact CDV's support and ask them which archive utility will extract the files individually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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