Skip intro sequence

[VampSlayer]

Skip intro sequence

Is there any way to skip the brief Blizzard intro sequence when you start up D2X? Something like a command line parameter?

 

[Dredd]

Right click on your D2 desktop icon, go into properties, and type the following into the Target space:

"C:\Program Files\Diablo II\Diablo II.exe" -skiptobnet

don't forget the space between the .exe" and -

 

[VampSlayer]

Thanks a lot. A bit of digging and I also found the 'windowed' mode parameter at:
http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=adt0781p

Now D2X loads up much quicker - no more of those resolution changes which mysteriously cut my web connection sometimes. Anyone know any more useful shortcut parameters?

 

[LorveN]

sweet, that /NOPICKUP command could really be useful!
wohoo, no more crap picked up when trying to move around :fish:

 

[Taft12]

"C:\Program Files\Diablo II\Diablo II.exe" -skiptobnet

Wow, what an awesome tip! Never knew it, thanks a lot :thumbsup:

 

[krischan]

I don't think there's a solution for skipping the intro without trying to connect to bnet, but if there is one, somebody in the single-player forum might know.

 

[krischan]

The error shows up if the game cannot connect to the game server, no matter what the reason is. Even when specifying -bn 127.0.0.1, the game still cannot connect to the bnet server because you aren't running one at home.

Perhaps you can somehow put up a fake server which leads to a quicker resolution of the connection problem, but I don't really see an advantage to pressing ESC twice to skip the intros.

 

[krischan]

When going through the intro, the game won't connect to bnet on its own, so unless you press the "connect to bnet" button, the error cannot occur. The -skiptobnet option skips the intros and connects to bnet right away.

 

[John B]

Diablo 2 - Lord of Destruction: NO INTRO / SKIP INTRO

Download MPQEditor (Google: MPQEditor)

Open MPQEditor.exe
(1) Click on [MPQs] > [Open MPQ(s)]
(2) Load D2Music.mpq (The REAL intro movies are hidden inside the d2music.mpq. D2video.mpq is just a decoy)
(3) Go to:

[-] d2music.mpq
[-] data
[-] local
[-] video <------


Replace all the .bik files with empty .txt files renamed to the corresponding names of the .bik files inside the 'video' folder:


(1) Create 6 new text files (.txt)

(2) Rename the .txt files, to the names of the .bik files inside the d2music.mpq 'video' folder.

BlizNorth320x480.bik
BlizNorth640x240.bik
BlizNorth640x480.bik

New_BLIZ320x480.bik
New_Bliz640x240.bik
New_Bliz640x480.bik


(3) Delete all .bik files inside the [video] folder of the d2music.mpq file.

(4) Add the empty .bik files you renamed from *.txt to *.bik, to the 'video' folder, inside the d2music.mpg.

(5) Close MPQ

(6) Play Diablo 2 - Lord of Destructions, without the intro

(I wish i figured this out 10 years ago. It was so simple and easy to fix)