mod installation

[painindaneck]

I have no clue what to do... The instructions aren't detailed enough. someone please help.

[Nubli]

once you've downloaded the mod, extract all the files and put them into your diablo 2 folder. but make sure you make a backup of your d2 folder so you can play the regular game whenever u want to.

[painindaneck]

where do i get the diablo 2 folder? and when i extract them this other window pops up tellin me where i wanna extract to. yes i kno d2 folder but i cant find the d2 folder.

[Keato]

It's where you installed Diablo. ex. C:\Games\Diablo II..

[Nubli]

it's usually C:\Program Files\Diablo II\

[painindaneck]

this is sooo frustratin i have no idea how to do this!!!

[Nubli]

omg, lol.

double click on My Computer.
double click on C Drive
double click on Program Files
double click on Diablo II

and there you are! copy the files into that folder!

[painindaneck]

i got the drop n dupe mod downloaded it now its sittin in my winzip window. i press extract. then when it says where to extract to what do i put in???

they are all BIN files

there is no diablo 2 in program files

[Nubli]

omg... ok do this.

put the zip file into your diablo II folder.
if you cant find the diablo II folder use the method i posted above to get there.

now, right click on it and click "extract to here" then there ya go. if a file comes out, then take the stuff in the file and put it back into the diablo II folder.

and there, your done!

[painindaneck]

im going to throw this computer out the window!

[Nubli]

im going to throw you out the window! lol, this is not hard at all! opening files is like the basic computer knowledge of today!!!

do you have windows xp or a mac?

[painindaneck]

all the files are in the main d2 folder but they dont look lyk folders they r white sheets wit the windows sign in tha middle and they are all BIN files.

Sorry ive never done this b4.... and i have windows 2000.

theres cubemain, magic suffix, magic prefix, misc, monstats, setitems, treasureclas...., uniqueitems all different things. i dunno what im doin wrong

im supposed to be usin winzip right?

[Nubli]

windows 2000? why not just shoot yourself, lol.

anyway. just look for a "my computer" icon on your desktop. then when you double click on that, you should see a "C:\ Drive" icon. double click on that. then you should scroll down and see a file that says "Program Files". then you double click on that and scroll down and you should see the folder "Diablo II". unzip the files into there and voila, your mod is set up. double click on the d2 icon and play away!

[painindaneck]

ERRR!! y wont it work!!!!!!!!! This is too complicated y cant u just doanload it and it works....whats the point of all this zip unzip open close files. GRRR!! i just wanna play!!

[Nubli]

omg... DID YOU FOLLOW MY FREAKING GUIDE? JESUS CHRIST IT'S NOT THAT DAMN HARD!! ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS OPEN "MY COMPUTER", THEN DOUBLE CLICK ON "C DRIVE" THEN DOUBLE CLICK ON "PROGRAM FILES" THEN DOUBLE CLICK ON "DIABLO II"!!!! IS THAT SO HARD? HAVE YOU EVER OPERATED A COMPUTER IN YOUR LIFE??????????????????

do you have aol instant messenger or msn? let me know, so i can help you out in an easier manner.

[painindaneck]

painindaneck101 does my name suit me? thats aol btw

[A|fzZz]

The easiest way to find d2 folder....
go to Find files and folders!!And type Diablo II

[DaGirl]

1. Find the directory with your Diablo II.exe file in it. You can do this
by looking in the properties for your Diablo II shortcut. For example, your
Diablo II.exe might be in "C:\Program Files\Diablo II". Through the
rest of these instructions we will call this folder "the diablo folder".
2. Make a folder inside your diablo folder named dropmod (the name doesn't
really matter if you consistently substitute another name).
3. Optional: If you have a good unzip program and know how to use it
you can skip several steps by unzipping the files now using your
zip program's "extract using paths" feature, this should extract the
dropmod files into dropmod/data/global/excel/*.txt. If you do this, continue
with step 8, otherwise skip this step and continue with step 4.
4. Open your new dropmod folder, and create a new folder named inside it named "data".
5. Open the new "data" folder and create another new folder inside it,
this time named "global".
6. Open the new "global" folder and create a new folder inside it
named "excel". At this point you will have created 4 new folders, each
inside the previous one, and the name of the last folder will be
\dropmod\data\global\excel underneath your diablo game folder.
7. Using your unzip program, extract all the mod files into the excel folder.
There should be three of them: monstats.txt, TreasureClassEx.txt and UniqueItems.txt.
8. Create a new shortcut by copying your existing diablo shortcut and renaming
the new shortcut to something like "Diablo II - LOD text mod".
9. Open the properties of the new shortcut (rightclick on it and select properties)
and find the "target" property on the shortcut tab.
You need to add " -direct -txt" to the end of it, so that if it was:

"C:\Program Files\Diablo II.exe"

it becomes

"C:\Program Files\Diablo II.exe" -direct -txt

Notice that you must add the -direct -txt outside the quoted part.

10. Run your shortcut, and start a game. You should see a bunch of .bin
files appear in the excel folder. If not, you messed up steps 3 to 7.
11. Go fight a monster. It should fall over easily and drop a pile of stuff.
I particularly recommend a paladin with a damage aura like Holy Freeze.
Monsters will be dieing before you even see them.


This is how you install Drop Mod (Gamma 2 Version for Diablo II & Lod 1.10)