Playing MGE without the CD

The ANZAC · September 14, 2003, 10:48

Hi! I know there is the no-CD patch for MGE, but I could have sworn there was another method so you wouldn't have to use the CD. I thought it involved something like changing the directory which Civ2 looks for the CD to somewhere on your HDD and you can extract all the necessary files to that. Am I on the right track or am I imagining this?

H Tower · September 14, 2003, 21:20

I haven't heard of this, but I imagine that that is what the patch does basically

-Jrabbit · September 15, 2003, 08:40

My method is simple -- I use a Mac!!

Ben Kenobi · September 15, 2003, 10:49

/me tosses tomato at JRabbit.

-Jrabbit · September 15, 2003, 11:10

* -Jrabbit's avatar shoots it out of the sky! *

rah · September 15, 2003, 12:13

Ahhhhhhhhhummmmmmm.

We're not supposed to discuss this here.
There are Other sites that deal with this issue. Hint Hint Hint.

RAH

Zedd · September 17, 2003, 09:40

Quote:

Originally posted by The ANZAC
Hi! I know there is the no-CD patch for MGE, but I could have sworn there was another method so you wouldn't have to use the CD. I thought it involved something like changing the directory which Civ2 looks for the CD to somewhere on your HDD and you can extract all the necessary files to that. Am I on the right track or am I imagining this?

What you are probably thingking of is a CD emulator, it will let you store cd info on your HDD like that, there ARE other ways but they are

Besides why not just use the patch, its simple.

The ANZAC · September 17, 2003, 17:36

Yeah, I guess I could use the patch, but I have the CD and it is just a pain to slip it into the drive everytime I want to start up Civ2.

I could have sworn by editing some file, you could redirect which directory it looks in for the CD....

duke o' york · September 18, 2003, 04:44

Just how dedicated are you to Civ 2 if you can't even be bothered to insert the CD?

Specialist290 · September 18, 2003, 06:45

Maybe he wants the extra time that it would take to put the CD in used to play the game longer.

Of course, I don't have MGE, so I wouldn't know anything about this topic. (And don't tell me about the patch--I already know about it

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Six Thousand Year Old Man · September 18, 2003, 09:48

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Originally posted by The ANZAC
Yeah, I guess I could use the patch, but I have the CD and it is just a pain to slip it into the drive everytime I want to start up Civ2.

Do what I did; install another CD-ROM drive.

rah · September 18, 2003, 11:35

If you have a daughter that uses your machine, it may take awhile to find where she put the disc when she took it out.

Zedd · September 18, 2003, 12:13

Use the no CD patch and then just copy the kings and video folders to your civ 2 directory, then you will not need the cd for anything.

Cedric Greene · September 18, 2003, 22:01

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Originally posted by Zedd
Use the no CD patch and then just copy the kings and video folders to your civ 2 directory, then you will not need the cd for anything.

Except the music, unless you ripped it to .mp3 or some such. Though personally I would much prefer Megadeth or Enya in the background.

duke o' york · September 19, 2003, 04:42

Is that a reflection of your personal taste Cedric, or just a reflection of how bloody awful the Civ 2 music is?

I always play a stripped-down version, with the diplomacy reduced to a window rather than the entire screen and everything else turned off. I venture that my musical tatse is far superior to the lutes and whatever that make up the Civ 2 music, and I could teach the Council a thing or two about how to play the game.

rah · September 19, 2003, 08:26

All useless extras.
And the music started to drive me crazy. (until I turned it off)

-Jrabbit · September 19, 2003, 09:27

Yeah. The day I shut down the music, Civ became much more enjoyable.

Soon after, I reached that point with the advisors, too...

Six Thousand Year Old Man · September 19, 2003, 09:52

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Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Yeah. The day I shut down the music, Civ became much more enjoyable.

Soon after, I reached that point with the advisors, too...

I'm rediscovering the music - my last PC made awful sounds when I tried to enable the in-game music, so it was turned off for a while.

The ToT music is actually pretty spooky

Zedd · September 19, 2003, 10:18

Yes, the music is akin to nails scratching a chalk board. and the "animated heralds" were amusing for a while, but now just annoying. the throne room too is useless.

-Jrabbit · September 19, 2003, 10:31

Yeah, anything non-essential can only annoy -- and some "features," running in the background, slow down the game, especially on older comps.

rah · September 19, 2003, 11:59

The worst was, even when I shut off the music, it would play while the game was starting up then stop when the opening screen popped in 4000 B.C. When you're playing MP and waiting for all the players to join and the number of restarts, it was still enough to irritate me.

That has now stopped. I don't know why, but I don't care as long as I don't have to listen to it.

All the other features were shut off after the first couple of games. The wonder movies lasted the longest since I liked them.

Scouse Gits · September 20, 2003, 11:58

Oh - I still play with the Wonder Movies - it only takes a click to stop them if they interfere, but that tinkling sound that says, "You've won!" - again is so satisfying ...