How?

[not important]

How and where do I put a game on my computer so I don't have to insert the CD every time I want to play?

[ZeratulsAvenger]

Umm you have to get a program that will emulate the CD being in a CD drive.. such as Alcohol 120%. Try the 30 day trial.. their site wil tell ya the rest(or should )

PS- It will require making a "copy" of the CD onto your Harddrive so be ready for some space to be used up. I have 11 GB worth. That may not seem like to much for everyone with 120GB drives.. but its a good %'age of my 80GB drive

[not important]

Thank you for the info, I would prefer a free program. .

[Aaaron]

You can use a crack but they are illegal so its not such a good idea and also they are not very reliable and often have spyware included with them so i do not recommend it

[Fastfly]

Are those cracks illegal?

Usually its just a new EXE file that you launch a game from. So as reliable as the game would normally be and no room for spywhere.

[not important]

Originally posted by akivaaron You can use a crack but they are illegal so its not such a good idea and also they are not very reliable and often have spyware included with them so i do not recommend it

I legally purchased the game so I don't need a "crack" to use the game. If you are referring to a crack for Alky120% then that would be illegal. I just don't want to put the disk in everytime I want to play the game.

[Aaaron]

then you can lend out your cd to friends and they can put the crack on and they won't need the cd so its illegal

i have also heard it is supposably not illegal if you do it just to make a backup copy of the cd in case it gets damaged but i am not sure if thats legal or not

[ZeratulsAvenger]

Well it depends on who ya talk too about the legality of making a backup copy... and I really don't know if you will find a free program. I would be interested in one though since my friends like how nifty it is that I never have to use my CD's... don't even know where half of them are... need to go find those Probably in a closet with all of my other computer stuff

[Prew]

If you just want to play the game without needing the CD just download a No-CD patch and install it. I do this frequently so I don't have to swap CD's when I switch games. I have never seen any spyware associated with the No-CD patches.

Be aware that if you update the game, you will also need an updated No-CD patch.

[not important]

Where do I find a No-CD Patch?

[spyder003]

try http://www.gamecopyworld.com

[not important]

Thank you spyder003.

[not important]

http://www.webattack.com/downloadfin...earch&action=s

I found these for free. I'll try them later tonight.

[Propain]

I use Virtual CD v5 and it works great and is easy to use. http://www.virtualcd-online.com/default_e.htm

check it out

[Prew]

How does Virtual CD get around copy protection- or do you still need the original CD to play it?

[DragonNOA1]

i had a virtual CD-ROM program once that looked like "Virtual CD v5". it worked well, went around protections and the like, but didn't work properly on one game... Motocross Madness 2. MM2 is a game that i used to use to benchmark my systems/video cards and even in this case, the virtual CD-ROM program. the game used to push graphic cards and systems to the max. if something was wrong, that game would find it, and it somehow found a flaw in the virtual CD program, it just wouldn't run the game right. so this long story boils down to the program i used got around protections and worked almost flawlessly. but this was years ago and things might have/probably have changed. i don't know anything about virtual cd v5 but it looks like a winner.

[afoctober2]

http://www.farstone.com/home/en/shtml/gamedovview.shtml

[Propain]

Originally posted by Prew How does Virtual CD get around copy protection- or do you still need the original CD to play it?

You buy the game , install it , do a virtual CD of it then put it away. Its that simple and has nothing to do with copy protection. It makes your PC think that it has a CD in the CD rom drive that is Virtual. Gamedrive also works well.

[Prew]

Interesting, so it basically acts like a no-cd patch- It doesn't seem like it is really getting around copy protection in the sense that you couldn't burn the virtual CD image onto a CD- and have the new CD work? Is that correct?

[Propain]

Bingo. Nothing illegal going on, just giving more life to your CD's. The only drawback is the space it takes up. Average Cd's today are 600 mb's.

[vacanthead]

Just use the NoCds as suggested. I use them for all my games I play regularly. Saves an awful lot of disc-swapping, believe me.

[troysvihl]

Cracks are not illegal. Pirating software is illegal.

[i3OSS]

if you use NOCDs make sure you make a copy of the original file that you are replacing.

[cdnref]

As long as you have purchased the games I don;t consider a NO CD Crack to be illegal, After all I payed for it out of my hard earned (canadian...lol) money.

[cdnref]

Originally posted by Propaine Bingo. Average Cd's today are 600 mb's.

Where do you get your CD's at? All of the ones I see here is at least 700!

[Propain]

Originally posted by cdnref Where do you get your CD's at? All of the ones I see here is at least 700!

The only drawback is the space it takes up. Average GAME Cd's today are 600 mb's .

[cdnref]

aaahhhhhhhh don't hit me! No need to yell, but thanks for clarifying

[nocturnx]

What you do is make a CD-Image of the game. It will give you a .bin file and .cue file. Download Daemon Tools, It acts as a virtual CD drive and lets you mount the CD image (the .bin file) to the virtual drive. So its Simulates like putting the CD in your CD player. This is the best way ive found to do it, works everytime and have never had a problem. You can make CD-Images with about any CD-R software also including Nero.

PS. This also works for games you get off IRC....(but you didnt hear that from me and for legal reasons you must own the original game) lol

[Propain]

Originally posted by cdnref aaahhhhhhhh don't hit me! No need to yell, but thanks for clarifying

not a problem eh

[cdnref]

lol