Tomb raider 1 nude patch

How to patch in Glidos?

This is the guide on How to get this mod working:
I have accomplished it on GOG version of the game. However, my understanding is that it should work on any version, including steam, because all versions, including fan patches, use a disk image as base game + dosbox.
Essentialy, we are going to get game files from disk image, get nude textures from the patcher program, use them to replace textures in gamefiles, and then pack game files back into disk image. Warning: this will remove music from game, because it is hidden in disk image in very arcane way, it is completely impossible to figure out how to extract it together with the rest of files. I know music is important, and it can be fixed by installing a fan patch, instructions for this are at the end of this guide.
First of all, locate the disk image in your game folder. Normally it would be an iso or bin/cue file. But, the GOG version is trying to deceive us by disguising it as GAME.GOG. What kind of extension is .gog? It is a lie. This file is actually the disk image. Make a backup copy and rename it into GAME.iso. Now you can mount it as disk, using Daemon Tools or your program of choice.
Second, we need to get the nude textures from that nasty exe patcher we have downloaded. Place nrp_all.exe into tomb raider 1/TOMBRAID. Mount the Game.iso. Run nrp_all.exe. First, we need DATA folder copied from disk image into TOMBRAID, or else the patcher will refuse to give us nude textures. Try to let patcher copy it by pressing “copy now”. It should regognize the files from GOG image and copy it. However on other versions game it may not recognize. Its ok, dont worry. If it cant on its own, you can copy the folder from disk manually and place it in TOMBRAID. What matters is that DATA folder is in TOMBRAID together with nrp_all.exe. This DATA folder is where the textures are, and any tomb raider 1 disk image will contain DATA folder. Now, the most important thing – go to tab Patch, select all levels to patch, pres run patch. It should complete successfully and will have overwritten the textures in DATA. We are done here, we have the files. CD Emulator tab is useless, it will not work. We will have to modify the CD ourselves.
Open the mounted disk, select all files and copy them into any empty folder, lets call it GAMEnude. Take the nude-patched DATA folder from TOMBRAID/DATA and place it into GAMEnude, owerwrite the existing files. Now we must make this folder into iso. Use the program called AnyToIso https://crystalidea.com/anytoiso/download . You can use a program of choice but what matters is that it supports format iso 9660. Everything is straightforward Folder to iso tab – point source folder to GAMEnude, the destination iso anyplace, or where the game.gog was: tomb raider 1 folder. Volume label shouldnt matter, but just in case set it to GOGTR1. Now we have our new patched iso. Put elswhere the original game.iso from tomb raider 1 folder. Lets rename Gamenude.iso into GAME.iso and put it into tomb raider 1.
Now, the gog wrapper doesnt want to work with our new iso. Its no big deal – all gog wrapper does is tell dosbox to run the game for us. We can do it ourselves. First of all, dosbox will not recognize file paths which contain spaces. That is why, let us rename all folders leading to TOMBRAID into without spaces and short names. For example instead of
C:\Games\tomb raider trilogy\tomb raider 1\TOMBRAID
lets make
C:\Games\tr123\tr1\TOMBRAID.
Now, in tr1 folder, seek out dosboxTR.conf. Make backup copy, open it. Scroll to the very bottom. We must type in the exact path to the folders we renamed instead of existing paths, so that the dosbox will mount them on start.
the line “mount C” must point to path with game folder. in our example its
mount C C:\Games\tr123\tr1
line “imgmount d” must point to the game.iso file. in our example its
imgmount d “C:\Games\tr123\tr1\game.iso” -t iso -fs iso
this is all, dosbox now knows what to mount.
We now must tell dosbox to utilize our config. Go to the DOSBOX folder, wherever it is with your game, for example C:\Games\tr123\DOSBOX. There will certantly be dosbox with your game, no matter what version it is. Find that dosbox.exe. Create shortcut of it. Name it runTR1. Right click on it, Properties. Add
-conf dosboxTR.conf -n
to Target field.
Make shure that Start In field points to the tr1 game folder and not just dosbox folder, change it if needed:
C:\Games\tr123\tr1
This is all, this shortcut should run the game. The dosbox will open, and the game will start.
BONUS: How to get music working:
It is simple – let us install Tomb Raider Automated fix https://github.com/Carlmundo/TombRaider-AutomatedFix/releases/tag/release
Its an installer. Point it to the TOMBRAID folder
C:\Games\tr123\tr1\TOMBRAID
It is very important that it is TOMBRAID and not merely the game folder, otherwise it will not work and will mess up your game files, dont mix it up.
You can run it through the new exe which the patch has installed TOMBRAID/dosbox.exe. It will automatically understand where your dosboxTR.conf is, and will run the game using our nudepatched iso. Warning, it is using separate save files. It will not overwrite your previous savefiles, but creates new ones with different naming. If you really need to, you can probably rename your old saves and replace the new ones. I have not tested this, only letting you know. The savefiles are in TOMBRAID folder named like SAVEGAME1 (old ones), and saveati1(fix ones).
P.S.: I want to say, it was immensely hard to figure this out and get this working. Every bit of information you read here, every step, has cost me a lot of effort and screwing with things – I had to uncover everything on my own with no ready information available and no programming knowledge. It is treason against me that the people who do have that knowledge, probably including the uploader, didnt do anything from preventing this hardship from happening. We all understand that this mod must have been in working order to begin with by efforts of the qualified people, as simple as copying a folder or an installer. Not only this, but think about how many people failed me along the way. For example how was I supposed to know that dosbox cant read filepaths with spaces? Nobody is talking about this. It does do so when gogwrapper is used but not otherwise. Why didnt they implement this obvious functionality into dosbox? Where is even the error messege explaining this? It just crashes. On this alone I almost died figuring out what the problem was…
I wish the worst to the people who are responsible for this. They all will answer in their own way for their selfish actions, in this life or the next.