Err, I do believe he was talking about playing the game from HDD... I might be wrong though.
Making an image of the CDs and playing using those and a program like Daemon Tools would be a lot faster (seek-wise and such) than using the CDs... but finding a No-CD crack will do the same
If burning, there's no real reason to copy it to HDD beforehand as I see it. If your CDR is equipped with some kind of Buffer Underrun Protection, and your Lite-On is (I have the same drive
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