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OldManWrigley
12-15-2008, 03:37 PM
I recently purchased all the expansion "stuff" packs for The Sims 2, and am trying to back them all up on a single DVD, with an AIO menu created by APM. Anyway, there are two tricky situations at the moment. When I first attempted to do it, I took all the files for "Celebration Stuff" and copied them into my project folder. I programmed so where when I clicked on the "Celebration Stuff" button, it would run "autorun.exe" from the project folder. When I did this, it came up with an error saying it could not find autorungui.dll. I went ahead and built the .iso with just the Celebration Stuff files, and when I burned it to a CD, it said it could not find "D:\autorungui.dll", and it shouldn't have because the file is located in D:\autoplay:\Celebrationstuff\", or something of that sort. So, I went back and tried to program for the "Working Folder", so when I clicked the bubble it would run autorun.exe but for the folder in which it was working in would be the autorungui.dll. Now, instead of coming up with an error, it simply just does nothing. So when I click it, my hard drive does a little spinning, and stops. I'm so lost! I tried doing this with 3 of the different expansions and have had no luck. Can't there just be a way to make it run an .iso file!!! Ugh.. any help?

I realize this is my first post and I'm begging here but I've been at this 6 hours and am about to tear my face off

Centauri Soldier
12-15-2008, 05:52 PM
I have done this with a few of my games (Diablo II and Morrowind for instance). It's nice to install form a single disc or image rather than to put 500 cds in and out of your drive 8000 times. Some games with simply not allow this though. Some for copy protection reasons and some because the files folders are named the same on different discs. It might just be the game.

RizlaUK
12-16-2008, 02:04 PM
well, the actual laws concerning copying and backing up of purchased games and software on disk are a little bit contradictory, as i understand, you can legaly backup any game you buy as long as you do not bypass any security measures, this, by definition, means (as i understand) that software and game devlopers denie there customers there legal right to protect there investment by adding security measures that are ilegal to bypass (or have the laws changed since i last looked into it?)

as we all know, there are no cd/dvd fixes for almost all known games, you can legaly use one as long as you own the original disk, but if the original disk throws a warning (this disk is protected bla bla) while trying to copy then you can not legaly copy it.

like i said, a bit contradictory