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Where do y'all recommend looking to find no-disc game patches in general? (lemm.ee)
submitted 5 months ago by AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Mostly asking because I've never used these before due to never needing to. That, and I have a few old disc based PC games that I'd love to be able to straight up boot without the game disc. These are games I could just pirate, but I figure I already own them in disc, so I'd rather see if there are any reputable places with no-disc patches. The places I've looked in the megathread don't have what I'm looking for.

Closest they have is either a link to the game on another platform in the case of My Abandonware due to it being sold, or a link to just straight up pirate the full thing in the case of Magipack Games. I've also done some digging on the Internet Archive but have yet to yield results (probably because I suck at finding things there). Still gonna keep looking there, but any helpful info would be much appreciated.

I don't think I can share the game names, even in DM, due to the rules here, so site mainpages are my best shot.

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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The full disc images worked well, and hard drive space is so cheap these days, that I'd worry about getting the virtual drive emulator working first.

WinCDEmu is FOSS, so you might look into that first.

Back in the day, I bought Alcohol 120, and it worked great.

The mini-CD image trick (optional): https://forum.daemon-tools.cc/forum/copy-methods-questions-daemon-tools/general-copy-discussion/4900-

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

Windows can natively mount an iso as a drive since Win 10 at least, maybe before.

But thanks for the link, always good to have options!