D2 without disks
My buddy plays D2 without inserting either disks.. He plays LOD and i was wondering how to do this..
My buddy plays D2 without inserting either disks.. He plays LOD and i was wondering how to do this..
D2 without disks
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Ahh, this is how I have to play. My nice shiny laptop died and now I'm temporarily back on a resurrected PIII desktop with a cdrom drive from like the 1970's (ok, more like 1995 but sometimes I wonder)
This old pc's cdrom drive can't recognize the diablo play disc, probably because of the copy protection, which uses some Advanced Features (TM) of cdroms that I won't name. This is fine with me, because I'm a hungry programmer myself, and when I develop carpal tunnel syndrome to get a product out I expect people to pay for it. But in this case, if I try to insert the disc, it just gets spit right out again. The drive is so old it simply can't handle it.
So what I had to do to play my personally-purchased and entirely legit diablo 2 is this:
1. Load the cd into a cdrom drive that can actually read the disc. This will likely be something manufactured after the Reagan era. It will also likely be on someone else's computer, because using the cd itself is faster, and you have to be really lazy to slow down level loading by a factor of 10+ just to not have to insert a friggin cd.
2. Use some software that I'm not going to name here, that allows you to create a cd image file of the disc onto this other PC's hard drive, including the necessary extra stuff that your old cdrom drive can't read. Doing this can raise some hairy legal matters, and I'll just leave it at that. This is not a very good explanation, but it's intentional, and I'm not going to be more specific about it.
3. Get daemon tools, which you will have to find yourself at your own risk and possible prosecution, but which will allow you to mount this cd image as if it were a real cd inserted into a much more modern cdrom drive. You may also install viruses, trojans, and backdoor exploits onto your system along with this software, about which warnings are all over the place, and you are really using this hazardous software at your own risk, etc. No kidding.
4. Mount the image with daemon tools. Diablo should accept this as an actual CD and act accordingly. For me, I was able to install and run diablo with my physical cdrom drive, except for the recognition of the play disc, so I used my real cdrom drive for all the other discs, and keep the play disc mounted with daemon tools. Did I mention that many people who use daemon tools also find their systems infested by nasty trojans and viruses? Proceed with caution.
This old pc's cdrom drive can't recognize the diablo play disc, probably because of the copy protection, which uses some Advanced Features (TM) of cdroms that I won't name. This is fine with me, because I'm a hungry programmer myself, and when I develop carpal tunnel syndrome to get a product out I expect people to pay for it. But in this case, if I try to insert the disc, it just gets spit right out again. The drive is so old it simply can't handle it.
So what I had to do to play my personally-purchased and entirely legit diablo 2 is this:
1. Load the cd into a cdrom drive that can actually read the disc. This will likely be something manufactured after the Reagan era. It will also likely be on someone else's computer, because using the cd itself is faster, and you have to be really lazy to slow down level loading by a factor of 10+ just to not have to insert a friggin cd.
2. Use some software that I'm not going to name here, that allows you to create a cd image file of the disc onto this other PC's hard drive, including the necessary extra stuff that your old cdrom drive can't read. Doing this can raise some hairy legal matters, and I'll just leave it at that. This is not a very good explanation, but it's intentional, and I'm not going to be more specific about it.
3. Get daemon tools, which you will have to find yourself at your own risk and possible prosecution, but which will allow you to mount this cd image as if it were a real cd inserted into a much more modern cdrom drive. You may also install viruses, trojans, and backdoor exploits onto your system along with this software, about which warnings are all over the place, and you are really using this hazardous software at your own risk, etc. No kidding.
4. Mount the image with daemon tools. Diablo should accept this as an actual CD and act accordingly. For me, I was able to install and run diablo with my physical cdrom drive, except for the recognition of the play disc, so I used my real cdrom drive for all the other discs, and keep the play disc mounted with daemon tools. Did I mention that many people who use daemon tools also find their systems infested by nasty trojans and viruses? Proceed with caution.
lol u can make cd images with nero.. (yes i said it) and its not illegal if u have the original disc.. its fully legal to do backup discs.. as long as u keep them for urself!! :rant: and the back side of images and copyright protection usually ends with (INSERT THE DISC) when u have it mounted.. thats why u need cracks and loaders an stuff.. but dont use d2loader.. i dont trust it.. i have a friend though who uses a 1.09 crack and that works fine :thumbsup:
ps. the reason i dont use my original disc is that i live in the north,middle(at my fathers house) and south (at my mothers house) of sweden.. remembering the disc is somewhat impossible :evil:
ps. the reason i dont use my original disc is that i live in the north,middle(at my fathers house) and south (at my mothers house) of sweden.. remembering the disc is somewhat impossible :evil:
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Mobbaren said:
That depends on which country you live in, but if you have an image on your HD and the original CD at hand, you probably won't get sued even if it's against the law. However, you might get caught by a lawyer who somehow knows or assumes that you are violating the law, reminds you of that and charges let's say €2,000 for his efforts if you agree not to do it again, else you might get sued. I'm not sure how it's called in English. Where I live, quite a few lawyers live from being <self-censoring... a lawyer might read this> like that.
Mobbaren said:
Make images using Alcohol 120%. Alcohol 120% is pretty easy to use. Just select "general protected cd" when selecting the cd rom drive containing the lod cd.
Mount the image as said before with daemon tools (this one is free).
I use Daemon tools and I can't remember the last time I touched my D2X disk. The first thing I do now when I buy *any* game is to rip an iso of the play disk. Then I install the game, put the disks away safely, mount the iso, and away I go!
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