Games and NEEDING CDs

zoro

I really think there's nothing more annoying than needing a ****ing CD to play a game!

EVERY game I have is cracked so as I don't need to keep putting in a CD to play it - They're all legit copies, so I dont' posting this on a public board But I really really really hate the fact that the makers of most of the games force you to use a bloody cd just to prove you own the damned thing.

Sure I understand that they dont want piracy, but for **** sake I dont want to have to root through a stack of CDs just to find that missing "Play Disc" just to prove to this piece of **** that I own it!

Daniel

Tusky

awwww My heart bleeds for you , spending so much of your precious time looking for your play discs want a back rub ?

zoro

hehe It's just annoying, that's all

If I needed all those discs at the moment, I'd be swapping in and and out between Unreal 2, UT2K3, C&C Generals, C&C RA2, and so on

It's be a nightmare to wait on that damn noisy cd drive to spin all the time

Capt'n Midnight

There are fake CD programs out there so you can run uncracked older games ...

CD autochanger ?
If you have LOTS of money you could hang loads of SCSI drives offa SCSI card - you'd run out of drive letters first. DOS 2.11 used to keep going - got as far as _: and a: (lowercase) with ramdrive once.

zoro

yeah i've heard about them alright, cant' remeber the name of the one i'm thinking of, may well be that one thought!

do you use anything like that? does it give any side effects or anything?

Rew

Originally posted by Tusky
awwww My heart bleeds for you , spending so much of your precious time looking for your play discs want a back rub ?

Its more annotying if you want to play on an airplane and you cann use your CD-ROM...

UnrealQueen

Pity there isn't blank discs big enough to copy all our games onto the one disc:p No more disc changing then for zoro!

tman

Originally posted by UnrealQueen
Pity there isn't blank discs big enough to copy all our games onto the one disc:p No more disc changing then for zoro!

unless he's got 500+ games, a big hd would do the job nicely.
rip the games to iso's & mount them with daemon tools/alcohol/whatever...

zoro

no, that's not the point .. it's that i'm expected to use the cd EVERY time i want to play the game! I mean, there's only so much cd changing that i can take!

granted, if you haven't the hd space then you're gonna need the cd's anyway, but if you do, and you dont want the hassle of fooling your pc into thinking the cd is in it when it's not (im' talking about the iso's on the hd) why should i be forced into using the cd for a game i own?! it's unreasonable and annoying!

and dont get all "piracy is bad" on me i know it is, but if i own the game, why should i HAVE to use the damned cd

L5

If they're legit copies then go to www.gamecopyworld.com for a no-cd crack. Its annoying having to load cds every time. Note, this site is totally legal, as its only intended for use with LEGITIMATE games.
Mods, please dont ban me, im trying to help someone with a legitimate game.
Thanks

Makaveli

He's not looking for cracks, he's just stating that because he owns the games he shouldn't have to insert the cd just to play it.

L5

I know, but if he downloads the no-cd patches for his games, he wont have to insert the cd.

Lenny

Then when you have to update the game, its a pain in the bollax swapping files around because it won't update it if it detects its cracked

Makaveli

Originally posted by L5
I know, but if he downloads the no-cd patches for his games, he wont have to insert the cd.

We know that, but his point is that he shouldn't have to do this at all.

jonski

I have a similar problem , in that my kids have now started to play games on the PC aswell as me , so the disc's are comming out and going in constantly . What annoys me most is that , I've paid up on 60 yoyo's for them and when I reformat some of them won't load properly cause of scratches and such .

And although gamecopyworld is handy it doesn't work for all games ie: Toca race driver , that one wouldn't work for me . I understand why its there but its very annoying .

i_am_dogboy

Originally posted by zoro
why should i be forced into using the cd for a game i own?! it's unreasonable and annoying!

You know, it's not that hard to change cd's, stop being a whiney runt, suck it up, open the clearly labelled cd case, take out the desired cd and away you go. I hate lazy people.

And another thing, you may be using the game to play over a lan(I'm not implying that you do), and so the developers would like it if every player had a liscenced copy, if you take out cd checking then the game can be played using 1 cd. It's not so unreasonable that they would want to account for such happenings.

seanos

Play good games that don't require cds...
Nethack, Monkey Island 1+2 & Older Lucasarts games [copy game to HD, ScummVM], and all the other older classics - it may even keep you off boards long enough for people to forget this thread, and you to regain some dignity back, due to forgetfulness & alcohol [on behalf of others].

honru

Maybe you should just get the Phantom when it comes out; download all your games to its hard drive.

zAbbo

Rip your game cd to HDD< and mount the cd image with daemon tools et all

i win

Tazzle

I heart the stupidity and selfishness of random boards users core. No, not you zoro.

zoro

Originally posted by Tazzle
I heart the stupidity and selfishness of random boards users core. No, not you zoro.

Thanks

To i_am_dogboy and Sinnocence - whiney runt eh? So the fact that I own a particular piece of software, yet every single time i want to play it i've to get a small disc, of which i have only one copy, and put it into my drive after removing another game from the drive seconds earlier? Are the games companies going to refund me or jonski below if our cd's get scratched because of their protection? not a chance.

And I know that it's to stop them from losing out on money, this is my third time saying it dogboy - stop being such an as*hole

bazH - yeah i had thought of doing that (as one of the other posts suggested ) but i'm just not bothered with extra software to handle it for me

anyway, this thread is about the fact that we've no choice, stop giving me choices! Although it technically is still requiring the cd to play

Daniel

amp

I don't give a shit if it's legal or not to no-cd crack or not.

Thread closed. Before you pm me with complaints read the charter.