Copy UT2003 the EZ way

[DamagedGood]

After making several coasters with CloneCD and WinISO and spending hours digging up info on making fully functional backup copies I decided first things first. I needed a good NoCD patch at the least.

After finding and trying ut2003_v21xx_nocd an idea came to mind. Why not make an ISO image with WinISO, delete the UT2003.exe from the UT2003_CD1.ISO/System folder, add the NoCD UT2003.exe this folder, Save it and Burn it.

Viola! It works. Next thing is to install the latest patch, then Copy
the NoCD patch, this time to the installed UT2003/System folder on your Hard Drive. I noticed the Game patch modifies the UT2003.exe so to be on the safe side I made sure to copy-paste this again. Now you have a Fully functional backup copy of your Game and also have no need to insert the CD to play it.

I found it a good idea to add the Game patch, the NoCD patch and a Readme.txt to the UT2003_CD3.ISO image before burning this disk. This disk has the most room and the copy protection may be using a checksum on CD 1. The disk's I installed from did not yet have this added to CD3 so this part is untested, but if it fails just put these on a 4th CD.

I did a clean install with these CD's on a test Computer with no
problems at all. Works like a champ! :-)