Used to play a LONG time ago, I want to play the solo version because I don't have a ton of time to play.
Here are the steps I've tried, in many different orders, particularly the ones you're told to.
Downloaded Diablo 2 1.12A from Blizzard.
Installed D2 and LOD.
Extracted LOD_110.rar content into the game folder.
Extracted Hell_Unleashed12_Solo.rar into the game folder.
Had to move the game folder to c:/users/myname/Diablo 2/ to get d2modsetup to run, which did work. This was a solution I found here on the forums because d2modsetup was erroring out until doing this.
At this point, I would attempt to use Hellunleashed.bat and I would get a "Please insert your LOD disc" sort of error, so I downloaded the
NewLoader.rar here:
http://forum.arimyth.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1288I followed these instructions to a T, including creating the shortcut and adding -direct -txt to the end of it. I'm familiar with this sort of process from hosting my own servers for other PC games.
When this still didn't work (I'd get the "busy" mouse icon for 5 seconds when attempting to launch via the shortcut then nothing), I followed the instructions for hexediting d2gfx.dll in the post further down.
The no cd launcher still will not work. I've even tried mounting an ISO of the expansion disc, it still causes hellunleashed.bat to ask for the disc.
I can't think of anything else and I REALLY want to play again. Thanks in advance.