Age old question... playing from my hard drive instead of disc

**Rrasyrogenees** · March 14th, 2010

i am such a noob but i admit it freely. i can learn some complex things yet the basics seems foreign to me. my memory is not as good as i would like (although it is actually getting much better through practice [i am 51 years old too]) so retaining the basics is difficult to me.

well enough about me...

how do i go about putting a game on my hard drive so that i can play from there and not have to keep using the disc for that purpose? which program would work best to rip the game and then what commands do i need to do to change the game to look on my hard drive to get into the game info? or if it is all done on terminal (which i should figure is best already), what are the command lines needed to do what i would like?

thanks in advance...

**Toffeeapple** · March 14th, 2010

It depends very much on the game as there are many different ways about which game developers go in making their games.

Generally speaking with commercial games, ones that I run through wine on linux anyway is I to do a full install and then find what is commonly called a nocd crack, google will help you find them, there is one site in particular that has a very large comprehensive collection, I expect I'm not allowed to link to it or mention it by name.. but if you google for enough nocd cracks you will come across it. Sometimes you have to manually copy over a few files to the installation folder from the cd as well or maybe alter a config file.

You 'can' make an image of the disks in question and mount them to virtual drives, but I gave up messing about with that a few years ago as making working copies of protected disks can be difficult if not impossible, sometimes depending of what DVDROM you have as certain models will work and others will not and what software you use and what copy protection is being used.... much easier to just find a nocd crack.

Is there some game in particular you have in mind?

**Rrasyrogenees** · April 7th, 2010

hmmm... i thought that it was an easy thing cause a friend of mine did it years ago. i have not had contact with him for too many years and probably won't see him again to be able to ask. thanks anyway...