How to make no cd .exe?

[ByteMare]

Originally Posted by DABhand

Also, not all CD-checks are that easy. Some call on various API's to check wether or not a cd is available, some even check for strings for a cd label also.

A typical example is the bastard trick Novalogic used on some of their games,
killing the "simple" cd-check wasn't enough, No cd -> some buttons disabled.
Add some huge oversized files to deal with and a intro file which needed to be stripped.