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Installation Guide

This page will serve as an installation guide for both the Vice City and San Andreas versions of BTTF Hill Valley. With the release of 0.2g for Vice City and 0.1.4.5 for San Andreas we have parity between the setup files with the instructions below being identical unless stated otherwise.

While the mod is primarily in English with some limited support for additional languages in-game, the setup file with special thanks to our community members for providing the translations incorporates the following languages:

Automated Installation (recommended)
Manual Installation (for advanced users or users attempting to run the mod on Linux or Mac-OS)
Automated Uninstall (recommended)
Manual Uninstall (for advanced users or users attempting to uninstall the mod on Linux or Mac-OS)

Automated Installation

When first clicking on the setup file you will (unless you have UAC disabled) be notified with a UAC popup as seen in this screenshot. This occurs because the setup file is not digitally signed. Click Yes to continue.
You will then see this message while the setup file unpacks itself.
Setup will then prompt you to select a language to continue the rest of the setup process in. Simply choose your selected language and click OK to continue.
After clicking Next on the Welcome page, you will be prompted to select the directory where you have Grand Theft Auto: Vice City or Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas installed depending on the setup file you are running.

Directory Validation The setup file will validate that the chosen installation directory contains a copy of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City or Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as appropriate. If the chosen directory is not valid the setup file will pop a message alerting you that the chosen path is not valid and advise you to reselect your installation directory.
Optional components (not applicable 0.1.4.5 for GTA SA) - here you can choose whether to install two optional components, the Player Skins pack (contains multiple Marty McFly skins and a Doc Brown skin), and the Vehicle Extra pack (this contains the additional non-star cars which were present in earlier versions of Back To The Future: Hill Valley). Side note - the vehicle extra pack will increase game loading time by some seconds. When you are ready to proceed, click Install
A popup notification will appear advising that the setup process may take some minutes to complete (not applicable 0.1.4.5 for GTA SA).
A progress bar will detail the % of the installation that the setup file has completed, with a window detailing the specifics of the files which are being added to your Vice City or San Andreas installation. When the installation has completed it will write an install log file to your Vice City or San Andreas directory and will pop an installation complete message, should you wish to review the install log it can be opened using your text editor of choice.
At the Finish page simply click on Finish to close the setup file.

Manual Installation

There are some instances where our automated installer is not appropriate, for example if you are intending to install the mod under Linux or Mac-OS. Or if you are looking to install the mod to a copy of Vice City or San Andreas which already contains mods (though we do always recommend installing our mod to a clean copy of GTA as we are unable to validate which other mods will or will not work alongside BTTF HV).

A prerequisite to performing the next step you must have 7-Zip installed on your system.

To perform a manual install you will first need to extract the contents of the setup file, to do this right click on the setup file, scroll down to the 7-Zip option, and select Open archive.
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With the archives open we can see the contents contained within the setup files.
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For the purposes of this guide we will be ignoring the top directory $PLUGINSDIR this is not required.

Vice City
For Vice City we will be covering a basic manual install which will not include the optional Skins or Vehicle Extra packs detailed on the auto installer.

With the setup file open in 7-Zip extract all of the following files and folders to a folder on your desktop (or another location of your choice):
bttfhv
CLEO
models
modloader
mss
mvl
plugins
bass.dll
bttfhv.cfg
ddraw.dll
dinput8.dll
gta-vc.exe
ikpMP3.dll
irrKlang.dll
ReadMe-0.2g.txt

Next, navigate your the folder containing your Vice City installation which should look like this.

Rename gta-vc.exe to gta-vc.bak

Next, copy the contents your extracted from the setup file earlier and paste them into your Vice City directory. After which your Vice City directory should look like this:

That's it, manual install is now complete!
If you are running Linux or Mac-OS you will also need the following launch command option:
```
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8=n,b" %command%
```
This will allow then allow mods to load normally.

San Andreas

For San Andreas extract the everything from BTTF_ReadMe down to vorbisFile.dll to a folder on your desktop (or another location of your choice)

The contents of your San Andreas directory should look something like this. Note - the Steam version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has it's exe named differently. Retail: gta_sa.exe Steam: gta-sa.exe
We firstly need to rename the following files: Rename gta_sa.exe to gta_sa.bak OR gta-sa.exe to gta-sa.bak if you are using the Steam version Rename vorbisFile.dll to vorbisHooked.dll
You can then copy over the contents of the archive you extracted earlier. After which the contents of your San Andreas directory should look something like this:
That's it, manual install is now complete! If you are running Linux or Mac-OS you will also need the following launch command option: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8=n,b" %command% This will allow then allow mods to load normally.

Automated Uninstall (recommended)
Manual Uninstall (advanced users or users running the mod on Linux or Mac-OS)
1. Vice City
  To uninstall the mod and return your game to it's previous unmodified state, perform the following steps as outlined below.
  
  Delete the following files and folders:
  
  bttfhv
  CLEO
  modloader
  mvl
  plugins
  bass.dll
  bttfhv.cfg
  ddraw.dll
  dinput8.dll
  gta-vc.exe
  ikpMP3.dll
  irrKlang.dll
  ReadMe-0.2g.txt
  
  Go into the models folder and delete the following files:
  ps3btns.txd
  sixaxis.txd
  x360btns.txd
  
  Go into the mss folder and delete the following file:
  vehmod_chooser.flt
  
  Return to the root of your GTA VC directory then
  Rename gta-vc.bak to gta-vc.exe
  
  That's it, manual uninstall is now complete and your GTA VC directory has been returned to it's previously unmodified state.
  
  If you are running Linux or Mac-OS don't forget to remove the launch command option:
```
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8=n,b" %command%
```
2. San Andreas
  To uninstall the mod and return your game to it's previous unmodified state, perform the following steps as outlined below.
  
  Delete the following files and folders:
  
  BTTF_ReadMe
  cleo
  modloader
  scripts
  cleo.asi
  dinput8.dll
  gta_sa.exe (gta-sa.exe if you are using the Steam version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
  vorbisFile.dll
  
  Go into the models folder and delete the following files:
  ps3btns.txd
  sixaxis.txd
  x360btns.txd
  
  Return to the root of your GTA SA directory and then
  Rename gta_sa.bak to gta_sa.exe OR gta-sa.bak to gta-sa.exe if you are using the Steam version
  
  Rename vorbisHooked.dll to vorbisFile.dll
  
  That's it, manual uninstall is now complete and your GTA SA directory has been returned to it's previously unmodified state.
  
  If you are running Linux or Mac-OS don't forget to remove the launch command option:
```
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8=n,b" %command%
```