How to play the King of the Hill PC game WITHOUT an original disc
26So you absolutely have to play King of the Hill on PC but don't wanna fork over the cash for a rare eBay copy. You're in luck! There's another way.
Bonus: this also shows how to get into the source files to hack the game!
If you do have an original disc (and a CD-ROM drive) and wanna play the way the late 90s intended, here are the details for how to play WITH a physical disc: https://youtu.be/F0XU8hGfD78
How to rip assets from Shockwave games: https://vinizinho.neocities.org/projects/shockwave-rip.html
tomysshadow's Movie Restorer Xtra: https://github.com/tomysshadow/Movie-Restorer-Xtra
n0samu's director-files-extract: https://github.com/n0samu/director-files-extract
Shockwave discord: https://discord.gg/VqXTSPs
Or just watch a playthrough without commentary if this is ~too much~: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pfShpkqT_Q
Chapters
0:00 Preamble
4:24 King of the Hill game ISO
5:59 Macromedia Director MX 2004
8:34 Movie Restorer Xtra to open protected DCR files
11:38 director-files-extract to extract the DCR from the game EXE
14:50 Opening the DCR file to launch the game
17:17 Dealing with Quicktime errors when trying to run the game
22:04 Editing scripts if necessary
24:24 Gameplay and final thoughts