Chief Rum
07-23-2003, 11:50 PM
Okay, I was just wondering if anyone here can help me with this addendum to CM4 that was done by an enterprising fan. For those of you who don't know, apparently it's a bunch of logos and facepacks and a whole lot of other stuff to make the CM experience even better.
They couldn't have possibly made this more difficult to implement. The description of it and goings ons at SIGAMES forum is in the midst of a 35-page thread, I shit you not.
You have to wade through about the first ten pages or so before you get to a download that works. Then, get this--the download is 226 MB! Now, I can handle that (I have broadband), but, jeez, that's a lot.
If you read on, though, you discover there are errors with it, and other fixes are being put up by other people. You can't tell what's supposed to work with what. By the time I am discovering this, we're at Page 17--about halfway through the thread. Who knows what else could eb wrong with the thing? Further making things murky is the fact that at the end of the thread, some sort of soon-to-arrive patch is mentioned (for the Super Pack, not EP5), which tells me there is something wrong with it somewhere.
On top of that, the 226 MB is broken down into almost 9000 fiels with about 17-18 readme's, and my understanding from the gist of what I was able to follow is that even they don't always properly explain how to do it, so there are links to other CM adjusting threads by SI that properly explains it.
Do you have a headache just reading this? Cuz I think I'm getting a pounder!
I would give up on this completely, but it seems to be highly recommended by lots of people. So I thought I would ask if any of you have gone through all this and set up this monster and had any advice as to just how in the hell to do this (add all the appropriate files in the right places), how to find out why a patch is needed without burning a whole night reading that frickin' thread, if the Super Pack itself is indeed worth all this effort, and, as a bonus, why the hell someone hasn't made an effort to make this whole thing easier (like a simple stickied thread with a download link, for instance, or better yet, with clear and concise instructions).
Ugh.
CR
They couldn't have possibly made this more difficult to implement. The description of it and goings ons at SIGAMES forum is in the midst of a 35-page thread, I shit you not.
You have to wade through about the first ten pages or so before you get to a download that works. Then, get this--the download is 226 MB! Now, I can handle that (I have broadband), but, jeez, that's a lot.
If you read on, though, you discover there are errors with it, and other fixes are being put up by other people. You can't tell what's supposed to work with what. By the time I am discovering this, we're at Page 17--about halfway through the thread. Who knows what else could eb wrong with the thing? Further making things murky is the fact that at the end of the thread, some sort of soon-to-arrive patch is mentioned (for the Super Pack, not EP5), which tells me there is something wrong with it somewhere.
On top of that, the 226 MB is broken down into almost 9000 fiels with about 17-18 readme's, and my understanding from the gist of what I was able to follow is that even they don't always properly explain how to do it, so there are links to other CM adjusting threads by SI that properly explains it.
Do you have a headache just reading this? Cuz I think I'm getting a pounder!
I would give up on this completely, but it seems to be highly recommended by lots of people. So I thought I would ask if any of you have gone through all this and set up this monster and had any advice as to just how in the hell to do this (add all the appropriate files in the right places), how to find out why a patch is needed without burning a whole night reading that frickin' thread, if the Super Pack itself is indeed worth all this effort, and, as a bonus, why the hell someone hasn't made an effort to make this whole thing easier (like a simple stickied thread with a download link, for instance, or better yet, with clear and concise instructions).
Ugh.
CR