Mass Effect 2 - 3xDVD5 [1 LANG + ALL DLCs + INNO SETUP + TRILOGY COMPATIBLE]

[REV0]

Base Script: yener90 / Graphic Arts: REV0LUTION Special Thanks: yener90, for providing fixes about iss.

Compatible with Mass Effect: Trilogy Edition which will be released in 6th November, since they'll release the same game again.

History:

- V2.10 - Updated DiskSlice value.
- V2.20 - Updated iss.
- V2.21 - Updated Setup.ini about game's installed size
- V2.22 - Deleted unnecessary reg keys
- V2.30 - Updated regkeys, updated readme files thanks to Nturky

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1. Install the game with the language you want also install DLCs.

2. Move/Copy directx, VisualCRT folder and Phyx setup from from original DVD to DVD3/Redist folder in conversion.

3. Copy content of ''Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 2'' folder to Mass Effect 2 folder in the conversion. Alternatively you can delete 'Save' folder to make clean installation.

3. Download the attachment below. Open InstallScript.iss with INNO Setup Unicode and change the following line with your game's installed location:

#define ProgramFiles "E:\Program Files (x86)\Mass Effect Collection\Mass Effect 2"

4. Save it and compile.

5. Move;

-Autorun.exe, Setup.cab, Setup.exe, Setup.ico, Setup.ini to DVD1
-All Setup-1*.bin files to DVD1
-All Setup-2*.bin files to DVD2
-All Setup-3*.bin files to DVD3

6. Burn to DVDs with any label and enjoy OST during the installation.

[HellRazor]

Okay... What am I doing wrong?

I Installed the game, patched it up, installed the DLCs, moved the content of folders from My Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 2\ to C:\ME2_Conv\Conversion\Mass Effect 2\ (conversion files), changed the
#define ProgramFiles "C:\Program Files\Mass Effect 2"
to
#define ProgramFiles "F:\Program Files\Mass Effect 2"
(I installed the game on my F drive)
and when I start compiling, compiling ends in 11 seconds and all that gets compiled are the files of configuration (those moved from My Docs).

Log entries from INNO: http://pastebin.com/tnzTdVBD
(Didn't want to spam the page with wall of text, uploaded to pastebin)

[REV0]

Originally Posted by HellRazor

Okay... What am I doing wrong?

You're not doing anything wrong, it's my mistake. I fixed on new attachment can your try it please ?

Cheers

[HellRazor]

Error popped-up now.
(with new attachment)

[HellRazor]

Okay... I removed that line (157) and it works now... Compiling is under way...

By the way, final size of the game is

18,1 GB (19.509.855.690 bytes)

That is with everything installed.

Game
1.02 Update
All 23 DLCs
- Aegis Pack
- Alternate Appearance Pack 1
- Alternate Appearance Pack 2
- Arrival
- Blood Dragon Armor
- Arc Projector
- Cerberus Weapon & Armor
- Collectors' Weapon & Armor
- Equalizer Pack
- Firepower Pack
- Mass Effect: Genesis
- Firewalker Pack
- M-29 Incisor
- Inferno Armor
- Kasumi: Stolen Memory
- Normandy Crash Site
- Overlord
- Recon Hood
- Sentry Interface
- Lair of the Shadow Broker
- Terminus Weapon & Armor
- Umbra Visor
- Zaeed: The Price of Revenge

You should edit Setup.ini and change

GameSize=12000

to

GameSize=20000

Also, in your new attachment you changed #define location for location of the game to

#define ProgramFiles "E:\Program Files (x86)\Mass Effect Collection\Mass Effect 2"

You might want to change that back to

#define ProgramFiles "D:\Program Files\Mass Effect 2"

[REV0]

@HellRazor,

deleted that line from iss, also fixed setup.ini, thanks for feedback.

On the other hand, editing game location is not necessary nor important since, everyone is diffferent. (I could edit it, but saw your post late)

Cheers

[HellRazor]

Originally Posted by REV0

On the other hand, editing game location is not necessary nor important since, everyone is different.

Yeah, I understand that.
You can edit the topic to reflect the changes because, not all of the people know what and where to look. There are people who just started with this and they will be looking for the current location described in the guide and they won't be able to find it.

[HellRazor]

IT'S ALIVE!!!

Ahem... What I meant was...

It works. Compiled, made .iso files and installed it successfully.

Windows 7 x86

Sizes of .iso files:
DVD1 - 4,37 GB (4.695.173.120 bytes)
DVD2 - 4,33 GB (4.650.102.784 bytes)
DVD3 - 4,14 GB (4.449.513.472 bytes)

There was one setback. First compile made the conversion create one Setup-4a.bin file with 150-ish MB in size. Using in consideration that structure of DVD3 was just enough to take all space of the disk with adding the Redist folder, there was no enough space to push that .bin file onto 3rd DVD so I had to change the size of the slice sizes. So...

If anyone encounters the problem where your compiler makes Setup-4a.bin with approx 150MB in size, change

DiskSliceSize=1500000000

to

DiskSliceSize=1550000000

and re-compile.

Once again, thanks for this, @REV0.

[Daftous]

Thanks for the conversion REV0 and thanks to the HellRazor for some usefull tips
Done the conversion on MULTI3 version - CZE/POL/HUN with 22 DLCs installed (except useless Genesis), deleted almost 1,5 GB from DLC folder related to another languages /DE,FRA,SPA,ITA...

Final size:
DVD1: 4,37 GB
DVD2: 4,33 GB
DVD3: 3,4 GB

I changed related lines in InstallerScript.iss to registy entries that were created after installation of noncenverted Mass Effect 2 (Language), after installation those entries were not present in windows registry...
Anyway the game works fine, just this little thing bugs me

[REV0]

Well if you edit iss file, that's normal that you wont have proper reg keys.

[GAMES_PC]

sorry bad english

i cant understand this

3. Copy content of ''Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 2'' folder to Mass Effect 2 folder in the conversion. Alternatively you can delete 'Save' folder to make clean installation.

documents folder or mass effect 2 folder?
tyvm REVO

[pakrat2k2]

copy your saves found in YOUR ( username for pc ) my documents\bioware\mass effect 2 folder into the conversion folder for mass effect 2.

[GAMES_PC]

ok thx pakrat2k2

sorry bad english

my install game with 23 dlc
18,0 GB (19.398.936.329 bytes)

i dunno why my size different with HellRazor
18,1 GB (19.509.855.690 bytes)

final size after compiled (multi language , no language delete)

Lzma2/Ultra64

compile time : 1 h 20 m ,,,zzz

disk1
4,31 GB (4.635.113.922 bytes)

disk2
4,27 GB (4.590.048.939 bytes)

disk3 with redist folder

1,33 GB (1.436.579.776 bytes)

tyvm REVO

[WaltonSimons]

I still haven't given up on trying 2xDVD5. In an attempt to decrease the game's size I looked at the movies and found a few issues:

AdvCombat1-3.bik are from console versions and thus are unused. They may be removed. There are AdvCombat1-3PC biks that are used and they should remain untouched.

There's more to that. Some DLCs share certain movies with each other or the base game. The solution to that is to move all bik files to the main Movies folder of the game and remove the DLCs' Movies folders so that the game doesn't try to look for movies that aren't there. This will trim down another couple hundred MBs. Will test with lzma2/ultra64 and tell you guys the size.

[WaltonSimons]

OK, so I didn't break the game at least. Just finished playing it through and there are no errors related to my meddling. So, here's the deal how to do this:

1. Enter Mass Effect 2\BioGame\DLC folder.
2. Check each DLC subfolder. It should contain its own CookedPC and in some cases, Movies folder.
3. Move all .bik files from these DLCs' Movies folders to Mass Effect 2\BioGame\Movies. If any files repeat, you may overwrite them or skip -- it doesn't make a difference except for the datestamp as any repetitions are identical files.
4. Remove the DLCs' Movies folders so that they don't get detected.
5. Enter Mass Effect 2\BioGame\Movies folder and remove: AdvCombat1.bik, AdvCombat2.bik and AdvCombat3.bik. Do not remove AdvCombat1_PC.bik, AdvCombat2_PC.bik or AdvCombat3_PC.bik because the game uses these!

Size results forthcoming. Gimme 4 hours

EDIT: Okay, so instead of a 750 MB Setup-3a that I had on the previous run, I have a 410 MB one. I think maybe FreeArc would've done a better job. REV0, any chance for FreeArc version of this installer?

EDIT II:

Also, this goes to Registry for Polish:

Root: HKLM; SubKey: "SOFTWARE\BioWare\Mass Effect 2"; ValueName: Language; ValueData: pl; ValueType: string; Flags: uninsdeletevalue uninsdeletekeyifempty; Languages: pol; Check: Component2FAE;