[REL] A Girl in Every Port

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by I'm goin' down

I tried installing GIEP several months ago. I failed and gave up. I just tried again. I am deleting everything so I can start over with a new set of instructions. I download GIEP into mods. I download Captains Girl #1 and Captains Girls #21 into my mods folder. I actived GIEP via JSGME. I extracted Captains girls photos and thumbnails into a Captains Girl Folder in mods and copied it to the main SH4 folder where the Data file is located. Nothing works. I tried different things and they did not work either. I do not know what a hot key is and how to set it up, so that advice in one the posts is useless to me. Can someone give me a step by step tutorial on what to do. THIS IS EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING AND I AM READY TO KICK MY DOG AS I AM LOSING IT!

First of all, don't download the mod into your mods folder. Download it somewhere else and extract it. Then follow the directions in the readme (important parts highlighted)


Installation instructions :

Once you have decompressed the archive, you will find a folder named GirlInEveryPort. Either place that folder in your MODS folder (preferred method) and use JSGME to activate itor place it's contents into your BlahBlahBlah folder (what's a BlahBlahBlah folder, you ask? It's the folder that you installed SH4 into. THe one that contains the Data folder).

Once you have done that, you will find a folder in your game install folder named Captain'sGirls. This is where you put your correctly sized .tga format desk pictures. As always, please keep backups of your pictures in case some little gremlin gets in and messes the ones in the Captain'sGirls folder up or you decide to uninstall SH4 and delete the install folder forgetting that all your pics are in there.

You can put the pictures in loose (not in folders) or you can organize them into folders (and even subfolders if you're that organized). The program doesn't care where they are as long as they are somewhere in the Captain'sGirls folder and they are .tga files.

After you've placed all your pics in the folder, you have a decision to make. Do you want any of the pictures to be used more than once before the others are used? This program uses a purely random (at least as random as Visual Basic can be) algorithm to determine which picture to use next. This could result in the same picture being on your desk more than once. The program is set up to avoid this by renaming the pictures as it uses them until it has used them all and then resetting the names and starting over again with a random choice. If you DON'T want the program to do this, you must run it with a command line argument of Y (or y). If you don't know how to do this, I'll explain it in a second.

OK, you've got the program installed and you have your pictures in place and you've decided how you want the program to operate. What do you do now? First, find the GirlInEveryPort.exe file in your game install file and create a shorcut to it on your desktop (or where ever you keep your shortcuts). Then right click on that shortcut and select properties. If you decided to allow repeats, then this is where you put in your command line argument. You will see a text box labeled "Target". In the box will be the path to the program. This path will be either enclosed in quotes (") or not. Either way, go to the end of the path and and a space and the letter Y (or y). That takes care of the repeats. If you don't want to allow repeats, don't add anything. Now click on the text box next to the heading "Shortcut key". WHen you do, the system will start "listening" for you to enter the key/key combination that you want to use for a "hotkey" for this shortcut.
Press the key combination you want to use now (I used control-alt-R). You should see your key combination in the text box now. Lastly, click the arrow next to the drop down box labelled "Run" and select minimized. Once that is all done press apply and then OK.

[I'm goin' down]

Okay, I am through fooling around. I have spent way too much time with this Mod. So this will be straight business.

I will walk you through what I did. The computer that I use for SH4 runs Windows XP, Professional edition. All downloads to Windows XP from Microsoft are automatically installed and up to date.

1. I have a file folder in the main SH4 folder called Mods and a file folder called Archived Mod Downloads. I downloaded GIEP and CDP1 and CDP22 into the Archived Mods Downloads folder. Then I extracted the three downloaded files described in the preceding sentence to the Mods file.

2. After extracting the files, I opened the Mods file folder. This is where all of my mods are stored. Within the Mods file folder I locate the extracted file folders CDP1, CDP22, GIEP, and a file created by the extraction entitled, "Captain's Girls." At this point, I have these four file folders in the Mods folder relating to the GIEP installation.

3. I activate the GIEP file via JSGME. Note: Rmaining in the GIEP folder are the GirlsInEveryPort_ReadMe file, and an icon of a woman in the red dress which I assume is the program's execution file (which, if I am correct, is described as the "GirlsInEveryPort.exe" file on page 2 of the ReadMe text file.)

4. l move the extracted CDP1 and CDP22 folders and their contents (which includes their respecitive readme texts, thumbnails and tga files) to the Captain's Girl's file folder. Their Captain's Girl's file folder now contains the CDP1 and CDP22 file folders (i.e. they are subfolders in the Captain's Girl file folder.)

5. Returning to the GIEP folder, I open it and create a shortcut for the icon of the woman who looks like she is dancing (i.e. the GIEP program execution file), and drag it to the desk top. [I pull my 12 gauge, side by side, double barreled shotgun (that means its twin barrels are side by side as contracted with a double barreled shotgun that has one barrel on top of the other, which is referred to as "over and under") out of its rack in the back of my Ford pick-up truck, load two shells of #1 buckshot into the chambers, release the safety, cock both hammers, smack my lips, and lean the shotgun next to the computer's hard drive casing.]

6. I follow the instructions re activating a hot key to run the GIEP program. The instructions for this task are straightforward. I set Control + Alt + R as the hot key. [The shotgun begins dancing around the room. My three dogs (toy poodles) leave.]

7. I activate the GIEP program by toggling the hot key (or alternatively, by double clicking on the shortcut icon on my desktop.) Actually, I should say that I initially attempted to activate GIEP by toggling the hot key, and on my next attempt, by double clicking the icon on my desktop.

8. I run SH4. I start a new mission to test GIEP.

9. It did not work.

10. Not easily intimidated, I tried again, starting a new campaign to see if the GIEP mod was working. As you have undoubtedly deduced, it did not, and the captain's desk photo merely displayed the game's stock picture.

11. After spending HOURS on this mod's installation, I calmly reach over, pick-up the shotgun, and fire both barrels at the computer screen, open the window of my second floor computer room, and heave it over the fence into my neighbor's side yard.

12. My son calls Happy Dale Sanatarium in Death Valley and requests information on its admisson policy, telling me that it is fun there, computer simulation games are not part of the cirriculum or treatment, and that I deserve a vacation. I told him that I would check in for a 6 month stay if am unable tot get GIEP working by my birthday, which happens to be tomorrow, so time is of the essence.

13. Anybody seen my dogs?

14. (All files are intact so I can move them, etc. as instructed.)

(The inmates are loose and running the asylum)

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by I'm goin' down

Okay, I am through fooling around. I have spent way too much time with this Mod. So this will be straight business.

I will walk you through what I did. The computer that I use for SH4 runs Windows XP, Professional edition. All downloads to Windows XP from Microsoft are automatically installed and up to date.

1. I have a file folder in the main SH4 folder called Mods and a file folder called Archived Mod Downloads. I downloaded GIEP and CDP1 and CDP22 into the Archived Mods Downloads folder. Then I extracted the three downloaded files described in the preceding sentence to the Mods file.

As I said in the other thread, DO NOT EXTRACT THE MOD INTO THE MODS FOLDER! EXTRACT IT TO YOUR DESKTOP OR ANY OTHER PLACE THAT YOU CAN FIND IT. Then open the folder that is created up and keep opening folders until you get to the GirlInEveryPort folder. THAT IS THE FOLDER THAT YOU WANT TO PUT IN YOUR MODS FOLDER.

Then activate it with JSGME. Then create your shortcuts FROM THE .EXE THAT IS IN THE GAME INSTALL FOLDER, NOT THE MODS FOLDER. Put your pictures in the Captain'sGirls folder in the game install folder, not the mods folder, too.

That should do it. And put the shotgun away, it'll only get you in trouble