The Endless Blizzard, Starcraft ~ (little help pls)

[myromance123]

Ok thanks dude ~ But in anycase that still uses up a tone of space for my pc. Oh well, I guess I have no choice ( couldnt post the sites, against regulations, sorry).

Thanks for all the replies~

[dfreer]

Hey, I found a no-cd patch

It's called the latest patch from Blizzard...

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- patch 1.15.2

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  Feature Changes



- StarCraft and StarCraft: BroodWar no longer require the CD while playing the

  game.  To play without the CD, please follow the following instructions:



- Windows Users:

    - Make sure you have "Hide extensions for known types" unchecked under

      Explorer Folder Options.

    - If you own only StarCraft, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft CD to 

      your StarCraft folder and rename it to "StarCraft.mpq".

    - If you own StarCraft: Brood War, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft:

      Brood War CD to your StarCraft folder and rename it to "BroodWar.mpq".

Awesome to know! I thought I heard something about this, but wrote it off to some fantastic dream I was having...

[deh1963]

It's the same with the latest patch for Diablo II (1.12). No CD required.

[disturbedite]

It's the same with the latest patch for Diablo II (1.12). No CD required.

true. thanks for the convenience blizzard.

now i wonder if diablo 3 will be this way?...

[Kartel]

I would also add that you can register an account with blizzard.com and include your cd-key in the profile information. It will let you download the game and what you get won't require a cd. Handy in case you lose you cd/iso.

[NeoFax]

Patch 1.15.2 has a built-in no-cd requirement. Also, if you connect to the Battle.net servers they will automatically install this patch. As for the cannot find the CD, there is multiple ways of fixing this:

1. Copy over the install.exe file from both your StarCraft and BroodWars CDs and rename to StarCraft.mpq and BroodWar.mpq

2. cd ~/.wine/$USER; ln -s /Some/place/you/mounted/iso d:

3. Use acetoneISO to mount the iso under /media/cdrom

I prefer the first method as it does not mess up my standard wine install(BTW do this after running the patch and canceling the install when it states it cannot find the CD). Unless of course you use wineprefixes, then it is a moot point.

[chono]

This is my first post, one, how do u make a new thread? and on starcraft, it works great in wine 800X600 except ipx and udp lan, both cannont initialize network provider. i have no idea how to fix this, any help? -thanks

[disturbedite]

@ chono
click new thread near the top of the page. it would be appropriate to post in the WINE section of the forum.