If anyone is interested I made my own NoCD for this, if anyone wants to try it, I upped it to Rapidshare:
Code:
http://rapidshare.de/files/26552348/FF8v12-NoCD.zip.html
I found some save games saved on discs 1 to 4 and flicked through a few and the saves loaded when all the DISCx.PAK data files from the 4 discs were copied to my HDD, plus the last battle loaded OK too!
I'm using the English version, not sure if it will work on other versions!