Diablo SnapShots

[LennyLen]

but i can't update...... you know why .... yes yes, i have a "cold" copy of Diablo CD, there...i say it....
Is there a way to extract the necessary files to do a "manual" update of the game? Or there is a way to dodge the update block?

Neither I nor google knows what a 'cold copy' is, but I assume that you mean you don't have a physical CD. Since you are obviously able to play without it, you either have a copy of DIABDAT.MPQ in the Diablo directory, and are using a 'no cd' .dat, or you have an image of the original CD and are using Daemon Tools (or something similar) to mount the image.

I fiddled with the registry settings to see if I could get the 1.07 patch to run without either a physical CD or an image, but this didn't work. There may be a way, but quite frankly, I'm not interested enough to look into it further.

There are only six files (1.77Mb) that are changed from 1.07 -> 1.09, so if you can convince someone to send you their 1.07 files, you could make a copy of your own 1.09 directory and overwrite the six 1.09 files with the 1.07 ones. This is the only way of manually patching the game I can think of.

If you are playing from a CD image however, you can still run the patch. First, when you mount the image, note what drive letter you have assigned to it. Then, run Regedit and navigate to: My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Blizzard Entertainment\Archives. Set the DiabloCD key to the drive letter you assigned the image. Now, when you run the patch, it won't fail the CD check.

Alternatively, spend US$10 and buy a copy of the CD.