Final Fantasy 8 - NO CD. Where to?

[WormTrodden]

Okay, I found that in my case, the game installed to "*:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc\FINAL FANTASY VIII\".

The crack/nocd/patch has some trouble with that directory, so I moved the file ff8.exe and the crack/nocd/patch to the root of the drive/partition, and opened a command-prompt, and ran the crack, and it worked perfectly.

So, if you keep getting a "file is in use/cannot access file/whatever error message when you try to "fix" your exe, then you should try moving it into a more simple location to patch the file, then just copy/move it back.

It works perfectly for me, and I'm on xp sp2 with a geforce 2 mx, so I anticipated an uphill battle.

Needless to say, it worked out better than I thought it would.

The only rpoblem I'm having now is the fact that there is no volume control for the annoying in-game music.

The music is good, but I don't want music, and it can't be disabled, and the volume is permenently set at 100%.

I'm thinking of putting some zero'ed mp3s in place of the real music.