Hey Rince, a properly written game grabs the location of the movies (i.e. the drive letter and path of some directory on the original CD/DVD) from a configuration file or the registry.
After having changed that entry, you still might have to remove the code that checks whether that drive is a CD/DVD or something else.
_If_ the game is properly written! If it just stupidly tries to access the first CD/DVD-drive then things are a bit more difficult. You have to find the code that searches for the CD/DVD-drive and the string into which it inserts the drive letter. Now change the string to start with "./" (instead of "%c:/"), pointing into the directory of the installed game.
Now you can copy the movie files onto the hard disk _or_ create small fake movies if you wanna get rid of them. Of course, it depends on the actual game but, in general, it's not _that_ hard to do...
Joe
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