Comments on: Play Mac games without the CD or DVD

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By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:39:56 +0000

THe mac world has no cd fixes too just works on other methods as well

By: computer games

computer games — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:54:51 +0000

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By: matrix

matrix — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:18:57 +0000

I tried this with need for speed carbon. I did all the steps it seemed to work, everything right and then -please insert dvd – rom!!! So I tried it again-same thing. I don’t know if i messed something up or if it just oesn’t work for this game but im prtty pissed off.

By: Dave M.

Dave M. — Wed, 02 May 2007 17:19:09 +0000

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.

By: mugab

mugab — Wed, 02 May 2007 07:18:41 +0000

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.