CD Emulator?

[l0sts0ul]

"This used to allow you to give a path to files and fake that as the CD"

I think you are thinking of the subst command.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hey l0sts0ul,

If there's only a _bit_ of copy protection on the original CD (volume label, big file, manually edited sectors outside the file area), then simply copying the files from the CD into a directory on the hard disk and then - what SUBST does: - asking the OS to give that directory a drive letter of its own, is not enough as the game will not find its original CD.

FakeCD does not emulate _any_ of these old, simply copy protection methods. However, it does tell the operating system (DOS) that that emulated drive is a CD-ROM drive. SUBST, on the other, hasn't been designed to do so.

Joe

[Methanoid]

Thanks Joe, you're correct and saved me from appearing ungrateful for suggestions.

I got Filedisk working but the only downside is that it needs to be "installed" first into the Win\system32\drivers dir which I'd rather avoid for a proper CD2DVD solution.

Now if I can find something else then we have in effect the "Generic CD2DVD" solution in one go.....