I wanted to play with ETW modding by starting with something small - a mod to block ads that get displayed when I start the game.

So I made a mod with 3 0-size files: movies\ca.bik movies\corei7_intro.bik movies\sega_logo_sting_hd.bik - and hoped the movies would disappear - they did not.

I tried using blank.bik file (tiny 0-second bik movie) - still nothing.

I thought maybe mods load only after logos, so I tried changing mod type from 3 (mod) to 2 (patch) - the ads were still there.

Mod file appears to be correct - Mod Manager insists there are 3 conflicts in it - the files I'm trying to replace.

Anyone had more luck with that? Mod available here for download.