[jjs357]

I got my CD ROM version of the Sims -- freebie for renewing .Mac.

After installing (running Panther), I can play the game only if the CD is in the drive.

I tried to use the Disk Utility program to make a mountable dmg from the CD to use in place of having the CD around. This did not work since when trying to run the game I still get the message that the CD was not in the drive even if I have the image mounted.

Is there some trick to this that I haven't hit on?

I did read some old messages on the forum that suggests that this technique works for some commercial CDs, but I could not get it to work for the Sims that was delivered under the .Mac renewal program. I made a CD Master Image copy from the device using Disk Utility.

Has anyone succeeded in doing this? Thanks in advance.

Jim

[Jim Paradise]

Originally posted by jjs357:
I got my CD ROM version of the Sims -- freebie for renewing .Mac.

After installing (running Panther), I can play the game only if the CD is in the drive.

I tried to use the Disk Utility program to make a mountable dmg from the CD to use in place of having the CD around. This did not work since when trying to run the game I still get the message that the CD was not in the drive even if I have the image mounted.

Is there some trick to this that I haven't hit on?

I did read some old messages on the forum that suggests that this technique works for some commercial CDs, but I could not get it to work for the Sims that was delivered under the .Mac renewal program. I made a CD Master Image copy from the device using Disk Utility.

Has anyone succeeded in doing this? Thanks in advance.

Jim

I'd actually be pretting interested in knowing a solution to this since I enjoy listening to cd's (that I haven't mp3'd yet) while playing The Sims.

[JKT]

I have successfully done this for other games by making a simple disk image (i.e. a plain .dmg, not a CD master image or .cdr.dmg). Whenever I have made a Master image of one of my games CDs, it hasn't worked, so have you simply tried creating a plain vanilla .dmg?

[jasong]

Check out this site

http://www.ing-steen.se/share/mac/games/share.html

There is a "patch" there. I haven't tried it yet, so YMMV. Report back if it works.

-- Jason

[bbales]

We have the Sims (and several expansion packs) and my daughter always has to have the latest CD in, in order to play the game.

[Truepop]

+1 before the lock.

You should look in to Toast by roxio. Also there was a command line trick to make Disk copy (in 10.2) have an option to clone the whole device. I don't know if it would still work with disk utility in panther.

[bradoesch]

Yah, if this would've been posted in the Mac Games forum it would be locked by now. These no CD cracks are kind of sketchy legal wise, so MacNN's policy is to not discuss it at all.