Why with many games are you required to insert disk 1 or 2 or whatever to play?

[Atlantean]

Once the game is installed you should have no further use for the disk except to re-install the game after a format or whatever. Why then is it necessary to insert disk 1 or insert disk 2 to play the game?

 

[randumb]

They probably don't want you passing around the disk for other friends to install.

 

[BFG10K]

Yes, some games continue to use CD checks even if you perform full installs.

 

[darkeneddays]

There are, of course, ways around that. :evil: I only have one CD drive on my PC and I can't be bothered to have to keep swapping them in and out. Paying customers pay for the possibility of piracy.

 

[Atlantean]

I always install the nocd crack when this happens but its annoying as hell is the reason just to prevent piracy? Cause thats not a very good way to prevent it.

 

[Super56K]

I started using alcohol 120% a long time ago and have never looked back. All the games I play regularly are emulated on my computer to a virtual cd drive. This works great, You should check it out.(instead of using a no cd crack, unless HDD capacity is an issue) And of course piracy isn't stopped. They just make it take a little longer to do. A lot of people I know just pool together for a game and they all make eachother copies of it. Same for dvd's as of recently. They've just succeeded in weeding out some of the people who might try and copy their game and not be persistent enough to figure out how.

 

[Cheetah8799]

Originally posted by: Atlantean
Once the game is installed you should have no further use for the disk except to re-install the game after a format or whatever. Why then is it necessary to insert disk 1 or insert disk 2 to play the game?

It is to prevent / limit the amount of people who trade in Warez (pirated games).

Even though "educated" pirates know how to get the cracks, there are still LOTS of people who do not.

 

[Atlantean]

Originally posted by: Super56K
I started using alcohol 120% a long time ago and have never looked back. All the games I play regularly are emulated on my computer to a virtual cd drive. This works great, You should check it out.(instead of using a no cd crack, unless HDD capacity is an issue) And of course piracy isn't stopped. They just make it take a little longer to do. A lot of people I know just pool together for a game and they all make eachother copies of it. Same for dvd's as of recently. They've just succeeded in weeding out some of the people who might try and copy their game and not be persistent enough to figure out how.

I am not talking about making copies... just not having to put a damn disk in the drive. Alcohol 120% creates a virtual cd drive? So you just copy your cds onto the comp into an iso? Why not just do a full install and get a crack for the game.

 

[Balthazar]

Atlantean: No-CD is probably your best bet, but A120% is nice to use if the game in question is an online game that checks the EXE against the server executable. Lots of time the cracked version will bomb because of this.

 

[hdeck]

no-cd cracks work well until there is an update/patch for the game.

 

[Atlantean]

Originally posted by: Balthazar
Atlantean: No-CD is probably your best bet, but A120% is nice to use if the game in question is an online game that checks the EXE against the server executable. Lots of time the cracked version will bomb because of this.

Hehe really I didn't know that.

 

[preslove]

What about daemeon tools? it's what i use.

 

[Super56K]

Originally posted by: hdeck
no-cd cracks work well until there is an update/patch for the game.

That's the other big reason why I use alcohol 120%.

 

[13black]

I use GameDrive. It lets you make image files or the cd's and sets up virtual cd drives to use them in. With a couple of mouse clicks I can insert the virtual cd into the virtual cd-rom drive and install from there. The game thinks the cd is in a real drive. It really comes in handy if you have a game with multiple CD's like Riven. I can put each disk in it's own drive even though I only have one real cd-rom drive.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: Atlantean

Originally posted by: Super56K
I started using alcohol 120% a long time ago and have never looked back. All the games I play regularly are emulated on my computer to a virtual cd drive. This works great, You should check it out.(instead of using a no cd crack, unless HDD capacity is an issue) And of course piracy isn't stopped. They just make it take a little longer to do. A lot of people I know just pool together for a game and they all make eachother copies of it. Same for dvd's as of recently. They've just succeeded in weeding out some of the people who might try and copy their game and not be persistent enough to figure out how.

I am not talking about making copies... just not having to put a damn disk in the drive. Alcohol 120% creates a virtual cd drive? So you just copy your cds onto the comp into an iso? Why not just do a full install and get a crack for the game.

I used to do that but I quit because once you modify the .exe you can't patch/update the hacked .exe.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

when i use a no-cd crack, i backup the exe and restore it when needed for updates.

JBlaze

 

[Tango57]

Originally posted by: Atlantean
Once the game is installed you should have no further use for the disk except to re-install the game after a format or whatever. Why then is it necessary to insert disk 1 or insert disk 2 to play the game?

some games contain and play a lot of mpeg videos for those "movie" type scenes that occur between the parts of actual gameplay. sometimes by default they are not always installed to your hard drive since they take up so much space thus requiring you to insert the cd to play the game.

 

[Jeff7]

They should just use whatever was used for Homeworld Cataclysm's CD's. After I lost my Giants: Citizen Kabuto disc 2 to a Pioneer 16x/40x DVD-ROM drive (shattered disc), I started making backups of all my CD's, so I could just keep the originals in safe storage. Well Homeworld: Cataclysm wouldn't duplicate, or at least, no so that the game would run. I tried several different duplicating software packages; none could make a CD that Cataclysm would see as being genuine. It'd run, try to access the CD, and kick back to the desktop. I just hope that I never lose that CD to an in-drive explosion like my Giants disc.
So, summary - whatever the makers of Cataclysm did to their discs, it seemed to work pretty good.

 

[Mitzi]

Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
when i use a no-cd crack, i backup the exe and restore it when needed for updates.

JBlaze

Exactly...then restore the original to do the update then download the lastest crack again...