Installing all Riven disks on my Mac? | Forums

[devildog201]

Just finished Myst and am now into Riven, but find changing CD's a bit annoying. Any one know if I can install them all on my Mac so I can avoid that? Am running a G4 dual processor, 1Ghz. If anyone has done this, I'd appreciate your guidance.
Thanks

[devildog201]

Just finished Myst and am now into Riven, but find changing CD's a bit annoying. Any one know if I can install them all on my Mac so I can avoid that? Am running a G4 dual processor, 1Ghz. If anyone has done this, I'd appreciate your guidance.
Thanks

[wstrohm]

Devildog201,

Here is the procedure for playing Riven without a CD in the drive:

You copy the MHK files from the data directory on each of the CDs to the data directory of the installed application (eg: C:\Program Files\Riven\data). [On the Mac, simply drag the MHK files into the "Data" folder in the "Riven Folder" on your hard disk.]

Then edit the "riven.cfg" file in C:\Program Files\Riven so that in each section that looks like:

[ospit] Disc = 5 File_0 = "data/o_data.mhk" File_1 = "data/o_sounds.mhk"

the "Disc" line reads Disc = 0

[Exactly the same for thePC and the Mac.]

Apparently the program recognizes "Disk 0" as the hard disk and has no trouble finding its data there. (I edited the "riven.cfg" text file in SimpleText and saved the changes.) It works on my Mac, and since the same procedure works on a PC, it looks like a cross-platform modification of only the riven.cfg file, plus the data download, does the trick. The result is very cool; there is no hesitation in the program at the point where the CD-ROM disk would normally have to be changed; the mod is totally transparent to the user. This is a great improvement for those with a lot of hard disk capacity available, and I can recommend it on the basis of personal experience.

Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to SUFFERING! - Yoda

[devildog201]

wstrohm,
thanks for the tip - I'll give it a try and see what happens.

[This message was edited by devildog201 on Thu February 19 2004 at 05:56 PM.]