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Running Warcraft III From A Burned Disc?
« on: July 16, 2006, 08:51:50 pm »
I can't play the game, it wants me to insert the game disc.  I can, however, install both W3 and TFT from my burned discs (and even a mounted ISO image).  I tried a loader file, but I can't get on Battle.Net with it.  Anyone know how I can boot up my game from the burned/mounted drive without modifying any of the files the game uses for the hash?

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Re: Running Warcraft III From A Burned Disc?
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2006, 08:56:21 pm »
IIRC to use a mounted ISO you have to install from the mounted ISO (not a burned copy).  Use sd4hide if it's still giving you problems

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Re: Running Warcraft III From A Burned Disc?
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2006, 02:50:26 pm »
I installed from my F: drive (virtual drive mounted with Alcohol 120%).  I'll try sd4hide and see if it works.

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Didn't work, installing sd4hide now.

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Okay, now I'm pissed.  SD4Hide didn't work with F, so I uninstalled and reinstalled on G (virtual drive mounted with DAEMON Tools), and it still gives me the "where the fuck is the CD?" message.
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Re: Running Warcraft III From A Burned Disc?
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2006, 05:54:30 pm »
You could just not be lazy and put the cd in..
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Re: Running Warcraft III From A Burned Disc?
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2006, 06:18:30 pm »
It's not going to like a burned CD, but if you feel like wasting your time go for it.  I don't remember what protection scheme it uses, but it is  technically legal to use a no-cd if you own the program.  Just install the patch files manually by downloading from blizzards ftp before "installing" the no-cd exe and keep the real exe in a backup folder.  Current patch is 1.20e.

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Re: Running Warcraft III From A Burned Disc?
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2006, 06:28:53 pm »
It's not going to like a burned CD, but if you feel like wasting your time go for it.  I don't remember what protection scheme it uses, but it is  technically legal to use a no-cd if you own the program.  Just install the patch files manually by downloading from blizzards ftp before "installing" the no-cd exe and keep the real exe in a backup folder.  Current patch is 1.20e.
I've played on burned cds online.
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Re: Running Warcraft III From A Burned Disc?
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2006, 06:47:37 pm »
I own the game somewhere....

Anyway, I tried a burned disc last night, and it doesn't work.  Give me a link to a no-cd patch?

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Re: Running Warcraft III From A Burned Disc?
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2006, 10:53:10 pm »
I use VirtualDrive and it works perfectly.
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Re: Running Warcraft III From A Burned Disc?
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2006, 11:03:46 am »
I found one, years ago, that worked. Too bad I forgot the site. :-\

But yeah, it worked on Battle.net too. If you find out the protection it uses, I don't think it'd be too hard to make the new EXE pass checkrevision.
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: Running Warcraft III From A Burned Disc?
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2006, 02:28:20 pm »
Sent you a pm with one that I have verified that works.  While on the topic, I hate having to use the no-cd in linux because the anti-cheat client we use in CAL detects it as a hack.  I haven't seen any information on getting wine to recognize an cd for running tft, but maybe I could emulate the drive within wine a la daemon tools, anyone know offhand if that would work?

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Re: Running Warcraft III From A Burned Disc?
« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2006, 09:41:48 am »
Maybe, though I'd say use Cedega.  I hear it's better than Wine.

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Re: Running Warcraft III From A Burned Disc?
« Reply #11 on: August 02, 2006, 03:56:17 pm »
http://www.x86labs.org:81/forum/index.php/topic,6892.msg85325.html#msg85325
Read my last post for the No CD crack.

EDIT: Second to last post now.
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Re: Running Warcraft III From A Burned Disc?
« Reply #12 on: August 10, 2006, 02:05:03 am »
It appears to work, but I still need a TFT key before I can get on Battle.net (I used a public one, which is always in use).

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Re: Running Warcraft III From A Burned Disc?
« Reply #13 on: August 10, 2006, 08:05:26 pm »
Yea, I'm not sure where my spare is.  I only use the one tft key for myself, the rest of my keys are ROC keys used by bots.