Unpacking .apk's in OR?

[OTTODAD]

While true, the problem remains I have, which none of you understand, so I will try and explain... Again..
Yes, I have MSTS Hierarchy in the folders, but no MSTS installion in the registry.
Tsunpack.exe throws the following error: Microsoft Train Simulator installation not found.

There is your reason, you do not seem to understand !

Install MSTS from its CDs, not that doing that is a guarantee that TSUnpack will work !

[MP36PH3S]

APK files require TSUnpack, an installed into the computer's Registry MSTS which has the route the APK activities are for in its Train Simulator\Routes folder, but the latter can be faked!

Is that implying there is a way to circumvent the TSUnpack error given when a copy-paste installation rather than a disk installation is performed?

[OTTODAD]

Is that implying there is a way to circumvent the TSUnpack error given when a copy-paste installation rather than a disk installation is performed?

Not sure what you mean by that.

TSUnpack works only if MSTS has been installed into the computer's Registry and the route the APK's acivitiies are for is present it its Routes folder.

However, the latter can be faked if the actual route is in a MSTS MINI elsewhere.

[R. Steele]

Is that implying there is a way to circumvent the TSUnpack error given when a copy-paste installation rather than a disk installation is performed?

I think Otto means: That empty folders can be made for the route, activities, paths, services, traffic, and consists and placed in the proper folder heirarchy to receive the apk file. In the correctly name route folder (placed within the "ROUTES" folder) you gotta have the proper .tdb and .trk file and the empty act,pat,srv, and trf folders. That way the apk will "see" this as an installation. I use this method all the time. I want to see what is unpacking before it is installed.

I re-read his post - maybe he means the registry entry can be faked (changed), also possible, by changing the registry manually, using RouteRiter, or MSTSmanager (the method I prefer)

[OTTODAD]

I re-read his post - maybe he means the registry entry can be faked (changed), also possible, by changing the registry manually, using RouteRiter, or MSTSmanager (the method I prefer)

I did not mean that as I do not want less experienced Windows user to mess with their Registries.

However, there is a Registry Repairer on my web site that could be used to create a fake Registry entry for MSTS, but can not install its Train Simulator folder and all the default routes it contains when installed from its CDs !