Playing without the CD?

Litcube · #1 January 24th, 2004, 07:08 PM

Is there any way to play the game with the music without the CD?

Fyron · #2 January 24th, 2004, 07:41 PM

If you have lots of free hard drive space, you can get a program capable of creating a virtual CD drive (such as Nero, Daemon Tools (free), Clone CD, Alcohol 120/52, etc.). Then, make a CD image file of the SE4 CD, and mount it in the virtual drive. You will need a CD image making program such as Nero, Alcohol, Clone CD, etc. What you can do is get the trial Version of one of these programs, use it to create a CD image file, and then use Daemon Tools to create the virtual CD drive, as Daemon Tools is completely free.

Litcube · #3 January 24th, 2004, 07:58 PM

Fyron · #4 January 24th, 2004, 08:09 PM

Why so sad?

Captain Kwok · #5 January 24th, 2004, 08:54 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Why so sad?

It's a lot of work!

Plus, he probably realized why in the world would you want to spend all that energy to listen to SE4's music?

Fyron · #6 January 24th, 2004, 09:01 PM

Its actually very little in the way of work...

Captain Kwok · #7 January 24th, 2004, 09:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Its actually very little in the way of work...

He has to find the programs, download them, install them, and then figure out how to use them.

So it's a lot of work!

[ January 24, 2004, 19:48: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

Fyron · #8 January 24th, 2004, 09:22 PM

Sure it is. Just because you do not like the music does not mean others do not like it.

Captain Kwok · #9 January 24th, 2004, 09:43 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Sure it is. Just because you do not like the music does not mean others do not like it.

That's not a true statement. In fact, I was one of the early champions of the Space Empires music. I did however, make a generalization based on most people's opinion about the music when I said it wasn't worth the effort.

Litcube · #10 January 24th, 2004, 10:40 PM

Well, I don't have an opinion on the music, really. Consider me "Lawful Neutral" in that respect; doesn't matter weather or not I like the music, it's part of the game.

Why am I sad? Because I didn't want to have to use up 640 MB space / memory just for a few MB of sound tracks. I was hoping there was a way to maybe mp3 them, throw them into a directory with the game. No such luck, though.

I already have Deamon Tools running. I use it already for other purposes.