Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth 2

[faelposer]

Thanks, works great!!

just an observation:

po folder is no folder
and ereg-dict-po.xml is ereg-dict-no.xml

[Matteo]

Hi guys, I'm Italian and I wanted to make a personal REPACK of this game. I had a mind to make a MULTi2 version, with ITA and ENG languages only.

I've read the whole guide and, if I've understood correctly, this should be the final result. Check on the images and tell me if I've done all right, or rather if I've deleted the right files.

Root Folder


Autorun Folder


Support Folder


Hope somebody helps me! Thanks!

[shinok]

This conversion is really easy and miscellaneous because you can install game without DVD 2 for favorite languages.

DVD1
Label: whatever you want (i called it LOTRBFME2_DVD1)

Files:
All files except:
0es_compressed.zip (move it to DVD2)
0fr-fr_compressed.zip (move it to DVD2)
0it_compressed.zip (move it to DVD2)

+ create new txt files for those files exact names:
add this line to txt files:

es_filelist.txt

2,1,Support\es\leeme.txt

fr-fr_filelist.txt

2,1,Support\fr-fr\lisezMoi.txt

it_filelist.txt

2,1,Support\it\Leggimi.txt

(Blue "2" means DVD2)
Note: You can add also more files and custom files eg. fixed game.dat
Eg. Leggimi.txt will be copied to:
<GamePath>\Support\it\Leggimi.txt
<GamePath> (depends on language) usually C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Battle for Middle-earth (tm) II\

This will cause if you install game in Spanish, French, Italian, installer ask you insert DVD2 and will automatically copy 0**_compressed.zip archive + files in **_filelist.txt

DVD2
Label: whatever you want (i called it LOTRBFME2_DVD2)

Files:
(you can copy whole "Support" folder or at least files (eg. "Support\fr-fr\lisezMoi.txt") you need from it_filelist.txt, fr-fr_filelist.txt, es_filelist.txt)
Support\
0es_compressed.zip
0fr-fr_compressed.zip
0it_compressed.zip
LotRIcon.ico (if you do not have you can download it here: BFME2 [2xDVD5].rar)
autorun.inf

[autorun]
Icon=LotRIcon.ico
Name=The Battle for Middle-earth II

[Special]
Disk=2
ProductGuiID={2A9F95AB-65A3-432c-8631-B8BC5BF7477A}

Install sequence:
DVD1 (only) (for German, Swedish, Dutch, English, Polish, Norwegian)
DVD1 - DVD2 - DVD1 (for Spanish, French, Italian)

DVD1 4374 MB (101 MB free)
DVD2 1308 MB (3167 MB free) (you ca add here your favorite maps, mods, tools, trainers etc. a lot of space

Note: You can do it similar if you want Spanish, French, Italian on DVD1, just create de_filelist.txt and move "0de_compressed.zip" to DVD2 and one of 0es_compressed.zip , 0fr-fr_compressed.zip , 0it_compressed.zip to DVD1.