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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?
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Georgi Nikolai Anzyakov, Commander Grand Northern Front, Red Front Democracy Game -
I haven't heard of this, but I imagine that that is what the patch does basically -
My method is simple -- I use a Mac!!
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Ahhhhhhhhhummmmmmm.
We're not supposed to discuss this here.
There are Other sites that deal with this issue. Hint Hint Hint.
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Re: Playing MGE without the CD
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 areOriginally 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?
Besides why not just use the patch, its simple.
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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....Georgi Nikolai Anzyakov, Commander Grand Northern Front, Red Front Democracy GameComment
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Just how dedicated are you to Civ 2 if you can't even be bothered to insert the CD?
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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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Do what I did; install another CD-ROM drive.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.Last edited by Six Thousand Year Old Man; September 18, 2003, 09:55."I'm a guy - I take everything seriously except other people's emotions"
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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.
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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.
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Except the music, unless you ripped it to .mp3 or some such. Though personally I would much prefer Megadeth or Enya in the background.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.
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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.
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