Phantasmagoria v1.0/v1.1

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Published on: December 23, 2011

The original Phantasmagoria includes 7 CD”s which are required to play each chapter of the game. There are many: trailers, demos, applications etc, included on these CD”s, which are NOT required for gameplay. The below steps will take you through the process of setting up Phantasmagoria to play directly off your Hard Drive (without the need for any CD/DVD) and without these unnecessary files.
You can then burn this folder to a DVD.

You can either perform the manual steps below to create you Phantasmagoria DVD or you can use a Custom built EXE file created by “Earthfire”.
Download the Custom built EXE from HERE.
Run the EXE and it will instruct you which CD”s to insert.
Once ALL the CD”s have been copied to the hardrive the EXE will correctly setup, Move and Delete the files for you. It will also install the v1.1 Update patch which is included in the EXE.

Manual Setup (Without using Earthfire”s EXE)

1) Create a Temp folder on your hardrive.
Name this folder: PHANT. This will be the name (Label) of our DVD.

2) Copy all the files of CD7 to the PHANT folder.
3) Copy all the files of CD6 to the same PHANT folder. Overwrite any files when prompted.
4) Copy all the files of CD5 to the same PHANT folder. Overwrite any files when prompted.
5) Copy all the files of CD4 to the same PHANT folder. Overwrite any files when prompted.
6) Copy all the files of CD3 to the same PHANT folder. Overwrite any files when prompted.
7) Copy all the files of CD2 to the same PHANT folder. Overwrite any files when prompted.
8) Copy all the files of CD1 to the same PHANT folder. Overwrite any files when prompted.

9) In the PHANT folder, Create a folder named: DATA

10) From the PHANT folder MOVE the following Folders to the DATA folder:

PATCHES
ROBOT
VMD

11) From the PHANT folder MOVE the following Files to the DATA folder:

RESMAP.001
RESMAP.002
RESMAP.003
RESMAP.004
RESMAP.005
RESMAP.006
RESMAP.007
RESMDT.001
RESMDT.002
RESMDT.003
RESMDT.004
RESMDT.005
RESMDT.006
RESMDT.007
RESSCI.001
RESSCI.002
RESSCI.003
RESSCI.004
RESSCI.005
RESSCI.006
RESSCI.007
37.MAP
65535.MAP
D2HTOOLS.DLL
RESOURCE.AUD
RESOURCE.SFX
SCIDLLWS.DLL

12) From the PHANT folder DELETE the following Folders:

AVI
ENGLISH
INN
INSTALL
MYSTERY
SQ6
SVGA
SWAT
VFW

NOTE: The DATA folder is the only folder left in the Root of the PHANT folder!

13) From the PHANT folder DELETE any remaining files EXCEPT for the following:

SIERRAW.EXE
SCIDLL.DLL
SIERRA.ERR
PDOCO.TXT
RESOURCE.WIN

14) Using the Notepad, Open the RESOURCE.WIN file and Add the following lines after midiBuffSize6=65000:

synthtype=highsynth
resAud=C:\PHANT\DATA
resSfx=C:\PHANT\DATA
robot=C:\PHANT;C:\PHANT\DATA\ROBOT
patchDir=C:\PHANT;C:\PHANT\DATA\PATCHES;C:\PHANT\DATA
movieDir=C:\PHANTDATAVMD
rescdisc=C:\PHANTDATA
resmap=C:\PHANTDATA

15) Download the v1.1 Update Patch from HERE and Extract the contents of the PHANTv11.rar file to the PHANT folder choosing YES to overwrite any files when prompted.
(PHANTv11.rar supplied by EarthFire)

16) Burn the PHANT folder to a DVD with the Label: PHANT
NOTE: Before burning refer to “Changing File Path from C:\PHANT” below!

INFORMATION

Playing Phantasmagoria
To Play the game you need to COPY the PHANT folder from the DVD back to the C: (C:\PHANT)
To Start the Game simply Double-Click the SIERRAW.EXE file located in the PHANT folder.

Changing File Path from C:\PHANT
You can change the file path to one you prefer but it MUST be done BEFORE burning to DVD!
The file structure is configured in RESOURCE.WIN file and can be adjusted very easily using the Notepad.
Whatever path you change it too the game MUST be Copied back to that path and played from that path otherwise Save Game Files WILL NOT be created!

Patch v1.1
It is recommended to install Patch v1.1
Patch v1.1 resolves some game glitches including memory errors and issues with Chapter 7.
Patch v1.1 used to be available on the Official Sierra Phantasmagoria website but this file has since been removed.

Conversion by: EarthFire

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