Play Mac games without the CD or DVD
Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks, Games
Carrying around a stack of CD’s and DVD’s just so you can play games can be very annoying, adding unwanted bulk to your pack. Well, I came across this tip today and I think it’s particularly useful for Mac gamers who own laptops, but it’s just as useful for desktop gamers. Macinstruct wrote up an easy to follow guide on how you can play games on your Mac without the CD/DVD by making an image of the disc with either Disk Utility or Toast. It’s pretty self explanatory but if you’d like some assistance setting this up be sure to check out their tutorial.
Macinstruct: How to Play Mac Games Without CDs/DVDs
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Comments: 2
Comment from mugab
Time: May 2, 2007, 12:18 am
I have been using this for many years and I imagine many people have. I first learned how to do this when I got a PowerBook that didn’t have a CD drive but I wanted to play games that required the actual CD to be inserted.
I couldn’t agree more about the annoyance of carrying around a mound of disks just so you can play a game or two, I would much rather just have an image on my Mac so I can mount it quickly and not worry about the CD. Because this attitude is so ubiquitous I hope that someday game manufacturers will just give up and find another way to prevent piracy , like better CD Keys or online registration.
In the Windows world you can do this too by creating ISO or BIN files and then using programs like DaemonTools to emulate a virtual drive, which is a bit different then the Mac approach but works the same to get around the physical disk requirement.
Comment from Dave M.
Time: May 2, 2007, 10:19 am
In the Windows world, there are little patches called “NoCD”. You replace the executable of a game with this NoCD patched version and your done. No waste of HDD space with images of CD/DVD’s.
As to better piracy protection… There is none. Any protection that a game manufacturer uses will be broken by a hacker in a matter of hours or days. It’s the same as DRM. They try and try to foil piracy of music, but the only people that get hurt are the folks who legitimately purchase the music/games.
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