Put the Data folder into your Diablo II installation directory (or the directory where you installed the mod, of course).
Go back to your desktop ....
Right-click on your Diablo II (or special mod) shortcut.
Scroll down to "properties" and select.
Select the "shortcut" tab.
In the "target" box, you want to cut this and past it over what you have there (substituting your own installation directory if you did not use the default):
"C:\Program Files\Diablo II\Diablo II.exe" -direct -txt Diablo II
This tells the Diablo II main program that it is being run in direct text mode, so that it will search for, find, and use the text files located in the data directory rather than searching through the MPQ files for the default data.
[edit] Yes, I can see that there was a slight typo that I didn't catch, thank you! ^^;;;
However, the extra "Diablo II" at the end was there when the shortcut was origionally made, on my computer ... It works just fine, as I have used it for several years now, and have never had any problems or issues with it's functionality.
Go back to your desktop ....
Right-click on your Diablo II (or special mod) shortcut.
Scroll down to "properties" and select.
Select the "shortcut" tab.
In the "target" box, you want to cut this and past it over what you have there (substituting your own installation directory if you did not use the default):
"C:\Program Files\Diablo II\Diablo II.exe" -direct -txt Diablo II
This tells the Diablo II main program that it is being run in direct text mode, so that it will search for, find, and use the text files located in the data directory rather than searching through the MPQ files for the default data.
[edit] Yes, I can see that there was a slight typo that I didn't catch, thank you! ^^;;;
However, the extra "Diablo II" at the end was there when the shortcut was origionally made, on my computer ... It works just fine, as I have used it for several years now, and have never had any problems or issues with it's functionality.