I'm tired of keeping game CDs in my tray!!!

[RollWave]

I just got Battlefront II and it doesnt let me mount an image of my disk, anyone know a way around the securom thing?

 

[CalvinHobbes]

There are sites that have No CD .exe's for various games.

I still don't understand why game companies continue to insist that people keep the CD/DVD in the drive. The protection is always cracked.

 

[CKent]

Agreed, this method of copy protection is retarded, and really annoying, but it probably keeps ~98% of people honest... I'm just glad there are no-cd fixes available.

 

[Stangs55]

http://www.gameburnworld.com

and yes, it's legal

 

[RollWave]

is anyone able to download the Battlefront II crack for me?

 

[40Hands]

I also hate CD swapping. Lame excuse for copyright protection.

 

[Maetryx]

http://www.makeabackup.com/
I found this site last night for the same reason. I'm tired of the GTA: San Andres DVD having to be in my drive. It's getting scratched up because it doesn't fit very good in the back of the book that came with the game. You kind of have to grind it into place to get the soft rubber "knob" to come all the way through the hole in the middle of the DVD.

Anyway, the more I tried to make a backup of the disc, the more it "resisted" until now my resolve is firm: I would rather have a backup of my DVD that I bought than play the freaking game. I get stubborn like that when I'm trying to do something with my computer the way I want to do it and not the way the game company tries to force me to do it. (*gasp*).

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: rnp614
is anyone able to download the Battlefront II crack for me?

um, why can;t you download it?????

also gamecopyworld.com is another good site.

 

[BW86]

another vote for gamecopyworld

 

[Maetryx]

I screwed up the link for makeabackup.com, and I just fixed it (two posts above).

 

[YoshiSato]

Since the advent of CD keys and activation CD protection is a fracking joke.

The All mightly Microsoft doesn't even protect their CDs with SafeDisk or that other crap that does not work on some Optical drives. Then again Vole did have in their EULA that you can legally backup your CDs(this was like 3 years ago) Been a while since I read their EULA

 

[mdchesne]

download DaemonTools and then go to gamecopyworld.com and find the noCD file. mount it using DaemonTools and you're good to go.

gamecopyworld also has a link to daemontools if you prefer to download it all at one place

 

[eastvillager]

That reminds me, I need to upgrade the BIOS on my opticals and see if painkiller will work. Stupid copy protection, the game only works in my laptop. lol.

 

[mOeeOm]

No-cd cracks ftw.

 

[PingSpike]

I don't know why they do this. The people that steal the game off of warez sites get precracked versions. Your paying customers get punished.

I didn't mind the cd in the drive business when the cds had no protection. I'd burn a copy, put the original away in my closet and go to town destroying the copy. But they force me to have the cd in the drive AND try to block me from copying the CD. Ugh...then the CD is all scratched of course. Oh, they'll replace it of course...for a fee.

 

[wahoyaho]

how much does it cost them to use a protection like securom or starforce?

 

[Seeruk]

I've said in 2-3 posts recently, all copy-protection does these days is delay the warez scene a whole 30 seconds whilst they crack it, and at the same time drive the paying customers into the warez-scene's arms for cracks and mini-images.

 

[Ike0069]

I have a Securom7 stop crack that works for FEAR, allowing me to mount an image of it. Does that game use Securom7? If so, I can send you the crack.

 

[RKS]

Originally posted by: Ike0069
I have a Securom7 stop crack that works for FEAR, allowing me to mount an image of it. Does that game use Securom7? If so, I can send you the crack.

Even though I have the original FEAR DVD it would not recognize the game disc even when I had the DVD in the drive. The no cd/dvd crack actually lets me play the game.

I agree with the comments here, the flawed security measure actually drove me to a hack.

 

[aloser]

Why are companies so scared of the cd being copied, when it's been declared time and time again that the disc itself has no value; you are purchasing the LICENSE, not the MEDIA... (Or so they claim at least)

 

[BladeVenom]

Unreal 2004 put a no-CD patch in their official patches. Vote with your wallet.

 

[xtknight]

Make a CD image with Alcohol 120% using the profile of the used protection (just Google the name of the game and "protection"). If Alcohol doesn't have the image listed, just use "ignore errors" in the options and it should work. Then just mount that to a virtual drive. In fact, I'm going to do this right now. If "they" say I can't, frankly I don't care. "They" can choke on a fat one because I'll always find my way around it.