A guide to installing 500,000 Games V2 from Viva Media.

Confused by all of your options in this compilation? There are lots of different choices then in our previous installer 333,000 Games. When you insert your disk you will see this screen :

If you click on 500,000 Games, you will find a screen like this :

If you wanted to install the 500,000k collection which includes the titles above, just click the buttons to install and wait for each one to install. A desktop shortcut will be created for each series.

If you wanted to install the individual games that were listed in the drop down menu in the first screenshot you would get a screen like this:

Once you install the game, it installs the Screen Seven Game Manager and your game, and the end result is this:

PLEASE NOTE: For the individual games on the DVD , you need to remove the disk from the drive and then insert it again for additional games. You may be able to install them seperately by clicking on Computer (My Computer in XP ) and then right click the DVD drive and select open. The games should be in the folder of the disk. Just double click on each installer and you are ready to go! 

I hope you enjoyed this guide as much as i enjoyed making it. However this blog is not official technical support. If you need help with problems such as program crashes, etc please use our official technical support form at http://support.encore.com/technicalsupport/tech_support_frm.aspx?product_id=2881

333,000 Games by Viva Media , why aren't there 3 disks? And why is it so hard to install?

On the Amazon Marketplace, we are selling a version of the game that's on DVD. Our previous release Had 3 disk and while it installs in a similar manner , you have to insert each disk to install

When you insert the 333,000 Games Disk, you will see a screen such as this :

It may even ask you where you bought it. You can choose other if you don't want to say where you got it from.

Next, you click on the disk series of games you want to install. For this instance I clicked on Disk 1 on these series of games. If you clicked it, here is the screen you get :

Click on a button and follow the install prompts. Once you have installed a game , you should see a shortcut for this game on your desktop.

If you want to install more games and want a simpler approach to doing so, with the disk in the drive, look for your 333,000 Games icon on the desktop. Provided you had closed out any other windows that the application had open you are presented with a window that looks like this :

This is a menu with all the games on the list, so you don't have to access the GUI found in the first image to get to all the individual discs on the DVD. This approach is much faster and saves the user time.

For those of you who encounter longer then typical install times , you have an alternative to installing this games. Please note this is a fairly technical manner and I'm going to explain how to do this.

1. Click on Start , Computer (Or My Computer if your on XP)

2. With the 333,000 Games disk in the drive right click the DVD Drive and select OPEN.

3. Inside the window press Control A. If you did it correctly all the files should be highlighted.

4. Now, right click on an empty space on the desktop and select New Folder. Don't name the folder anything.

5. Go back to the Window with the CD Drive open with all of your files, Drag the contents of the CD to the new folder. Note - It will take some time to copy over the files.

6. Once the files copy over, you should have these Files/ Folder inside your folder in the image below :

You can do 1 of 2 things to install your games. Click double click on the blue icon inside the folder to start the installation , or start the install process from each individual folder. For example . CD1 has Autorun 1, CD2 has AutoRun2 and CD 3 has Autorun 3. Double clicking these files from within the folder will start the install process for each disk.

Now that the files are copied to the hard drive locally, you should have a significantly shorter wait time installing the games, especially the 100,000 Mahjong Games and the 2002 Games that are on the disk which claim on the install process to take more then 10 minutes to install.

And that's 333,000 Games by Viva Media in a nutshell.

Remember, this blog is for reference and a guide for those who are confused by the install process. It's not a substitute for technical support.

If you need this please visit our technical support form for 333,000 games at http://support.encore.com/technicalsupport/tech_support_frm.aspx?product_id=3121

Frustrated by installing Play 101! Premium Games? You don't have to be!

Dear Players,

I've heard your cry for help I do understand that Play 101 Premium Games on XP has frustrated a lot of our customers. We would like to let everyone know that we are aware of a bug where the files are not registering themselves on the desktop or on the Start Menu under Windows XP.

You have choices on how you can find or play or install your game.

Method 1 :

If you already installed your games on Windows XP but you can't find them, use the following path to find the folders for your games :

If you want to install these games one by one and have a shortcut on your desktop , do the following:

Click Start. My Computer. in the My Computer dialog, right click the DVD Drive and select open.

Now navigate to Game_Data

You will see a list of games as shown in this picture:

You can double click each individual icon and have a shortcut to the desktop.

Hope this helps! As always this blog is not a substitute for technical support. If you need technical support please visit the official tech support form at :  http://support.encore.com/technicalsupport/tech_support_frm.aspx?product_id=3148