Put games on a dvd

[sjn78]

Just wondering today, is it possible to copy games onto a DVD where the original games have more then one disc.

 

One of CD's form a game I have is starting to suffer damage from constant usage, my cdrom drive is always moving hence me missing it and dropping the disc....thats my excuse anyway. So I thought instead of making a copy of the disc onto a normal cd - 1 to 1 copy, is it possible to have a dvd that contains 2, 3 or how ever many discs there are in that game.

 

Only issue I can see is that you start installing disc 1, then it asks for disc 2. Then I rememberd ages ago I saw some software that will create virtual drives, so maybe you could mount the drive to a portion of the dvd. Bit too much trouble for the cost of a cd though.

 

Or maybe its just easier to backup the discs on a regular cd. And no, they arent for anyone else, just me....Don't want to go buy the game again since a cd is scratched.

[Jay1b]

Errrmm......

 

I use to rule at this stuff, but i dont think its appropriate for this board. Email me jay1b(at)hotmail.com i will give you a few pointers. Remember to tell me what game it is, makes all the difference.

[Nerseus]

I've found that many games will install just fine off the hard drive, given that the original Disk 1 is in the drive. For example, I've copied 2+ disks to my hard drive and installed from there. For most games, copying all to one folder works fine. In some cases, I've copied to a "disk1", "disk2" folder, etc. In a couple of cases the install managed to find them automatically, in others it said "couldn't find disk" but allowed me to pick the file manually during install.

 

For about $0.20 you can copy each to a CD. The bigger issue I have is storing all the copies. I've finally gotten around to backing up about 10-20 music CDs as I'm starting to get more and more skips on the originals. Sure, it's only 4 or 5 minutes to burn a CD - but I hate doing it. In the end, I'd rather have my backup go bad and 4 or 5 minutes isn't that bad. Better than the "old days" of backing up my hard drive to 55 floppy disks. Or worse, restoring from 55 floppy disks.

 

-Ner

[Denaes]

Alcohol 120% is a cheap software that allows you to create an unlimited amount of virtual drive as well as create images (ISO and other popular formats). Then you can load the images into the Virtual Drive like it was a CD.

 

Doing this, you can save Read/Write time by keeping the images on the hard drive.

 

You can also keep all of the images on a DVD - so if you have a game like Baldurs Gate with 5 CDs, you can have "BG-1.iso", "BG-2.iso", etc. on a DVD. When it asks for a new CD, you click on the Virtual Drive and select an option to load a new image - ie, the next disk.

[Jay1b]

Ok i guess it is ok to post it here then :)

 

Yeah alcohol is pretty good, you need to do some clever stuff to get past the latest security on games though and then even this is dependent on what burner you have. The days of a straight forward copy are long gone i am afraid.

 

Alternatively you can get a hacked exe from sites as http://www.gamecopyworld.com and gamefix (cant remember full link). Just replace the actual exe with one of those and you wont need the original CD and wont need alcohol either.

 

Incidentally Alcohol supports either 20 or 26 virtual drives i believe.

[Denaes]

Incidentally Alcohol supports either 20 or 26 virtual drives i believe.

 

Ack! I didn't know that. I'm only running 3.

[ThePentiumGuy]

Use Daemon Tools :P. Hopefully that'll work