UCC Tutorial: Settings.ini Usage

Welcome to the Ultimate Conversion Compressor (UCC) Tutorial. The Settings.ini file is no doubt the most important file in UCC, it is where most of the options and variables for UCC are stored and defined.

The Settings.ini file tells UCC how to look and behave, it also tells UCC all it needs to know about the conversions you are creating.

The files is built in a well organized manner, it is divided into various sections each named, organized and have basic explanation of each option and function.

Let's begin...

Visual Enviroment Variables
This is the first section of the Settings.ini file, it controls the main visual options of UCC such as text & background colors.

General Conversion Variables


This section is much bigger than the previous one, there are quite a few options, some are optional, others aren't, here's the low down:

Game Variables
This section is used to set the information about the game or games in your conversion, most of the options here are required and cannot be skipped.

All-In-One Variables
This section is used only when creating an All-In-One (AIO) conversion, it let you set a number of options such as the number of games in the conversion, their names and expected folder names, these options are mostly used for visual display purposes.

General Data Variables
This section of the Settings.ini file is used define options related to the data archives creation, such as file names and extensions and whether UCC should create only one single data file or not.

It is also used to if UCC should move the game redist out of the game folder or not.

File Splitting Variables
This section is used to set-up the operation settings for the UCC File Splitter functions, if set correctly, the UCC splitting operation will be completely automated and won't require user interaction.

Automatic Autorun.inf Creation Variables
This last section of the Settings.ini file is used to help UCC create the Autorun.inf file correctly and completely in each of the conversion disc folders, it only have two (2) options:

That's it for the Settings.ini file, you're ready to move on...

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