well, i was looking at the mgforums and i found the answer! people, it was right in our faces all this time! look here are the instructions:-
YOU MUST HAVE A REAL CD KEY FOR THIS TO WORK AND A REAL BFME CD, no pirate versions will work, infact you shouldnt be on this site if you dont have the legal copy! REmember back up your original game.dat and restore it if it this dont work
>Install the game from the
REAL CD and update the game to v1.01 >Download the file from gamecopyworld.com :-
"LotR: Battle for Middle - Earth [ENGL] DVD/Fixed imaged (date is 10-12-2004 and was made by BB - total of 3.7mb)"
>Unzip the files to your desktop, you should have LOTRBFME.mds and LOTRBFME.mdf
>On deamon 3.47 tools on system tray, rightclick the icon, select emulation and click safedisk, the icon at the system tray should be green
>Mount the LOTRBFME.mds to deamon tools, to check if it worked, click my computer and u should see another CD drive labled LOTRBFME
>DOuble click the BFME game shortcut on your desktop and let it load!
been playing the game for one hour & it defeintly wrks!
TY GCW for that CD image !!!
PS, i think this works for all versions
(source from zhardoum on mgfourms)