tried posting in the pc game fixes section of their forum,but the thread is not online yet (needs to be approved by a moderator first),and that aside,the forum looks quite dead.perhaps I should try sending a pm,or a direct mail.
I'm going through old backups right now,I'm pretty sure I had the file somewhere at some point,but it is looking hopeless so far.
anyway,in case someone is willing to create a new nocd (I think the old one just skipped the movies,it did not allow playing them from the hdd),I have uploaded the unmodified executable here:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/yjd5x6
the error message:
I believe there is no real cdcheck on the exe,its just that the path to the movies folder is hardcoded in the exe to point at the cd drive,changing it to ..\USA\ (the game files are in c:\games\RE\USA\,and I have copied the movies to the c:\games\RE\USA\MOVIE\ folder) or something like that would probably fix the issue.
thanks.