Require CD=no means yes

[SMIFFGIG]

Thanx ETB

[HuangShang]

a bump for DoT... at least i think this is what he asked for

[Devil of Truth]

Thanks HuangShang.

[HuangShang]

i missed this before, i want to ask whats UseRedbookAudio=Yes

[Locutus]

Redbook is a CD format standard. It represents regular music CDs, like the one you put in your audio CD player. I assume that UseRedBookAudio=Yes means that it will play the regular Audio tracks on the CD in the CD drive, if they are found (your CtP2 CD should have 11 tracks: the first contains all the data, the other 10 the in-game music tracks; the audio tracks should play on your sound installation as well). If it's No, it won't play music from CD, allowing you to play your own music in the background instead (with WinAmp or whatever).

I never tested this though, so I'm not sure if this is accurate. Disabling the music in-game has the same effect, so there's no real need to...

[HuangShang]

ohh, ok

[The Big Mc]

There is a way to play the game without the cd but it depends on hard disk space. It is possible to get software that allows you to save the cd to hard disk and run it from there. However if you have a small hard drive you can't realistic do it.

[Locutus]

Erm, you can play the game from HDD anyway, no need for special software. Just do a regular install (full or compact, doesn't matter) and apply the no-CD hack. The only reason why you need the CD is so the game can check if you're not using a pirated version (and in the compact version for the movies as well). Of course, the only disadvantage is that without CD you won't have the music but ripping the audio tracks to MP3 and playing those in WinAmp is easily done as well (I actually prefer this above playing from CD)...

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

so where is that no cd-hack?

[Locutus]

It's against the rules of this site to post no-CDs hacks, or anything else potentially piracy-related. But if you PM or email me (or some of the other regulars), I'll see what I can do for you.

[HuangShang]

arent they called cracks, a hack is more cheating in-game right?

[ahenobarb]

Originally posted by HuangShang
arent they called cracks, a hack is more cheating in-game right?

Yes, technically it's a crack. A crack is program that circumvents a security feature of a program.

A hack though is not cheating, it is when you modify the program either by altering the source code (if you have it available) or editing the binary file. The essence of a hack, is that the modification it is not authorized/endorsed by the producer of the software. You could hack a program to cheat (although usually you hack a save file to give yourself extra ... whatever you want), but hacking is not necessarily cheating. Sometimes you have to hack a program to get it to work properly.

QED

[child of Thor]

I've seen such software given away on the coverdiscs of some pc magazines recently - sadly i didn't buy any, still i got two CTP2 origonal game disks and use the spare one to listen to the music(with track 1 on skip), this is another way to get over the repeat music bug.

[HuangShang]

Originally posted by ahenobarb


Yes, technically it's a crack. A crack is program that circumvents a security feature of a program.

A hack though is not cheating, it is when you modify the program either by altering the source code (if you have it available) or editing the binary file. The essence of a hack, is that the modification it is not authorized/endorsed by the producer of the software. You could hack a program to cheat (although usually you hack a save file to give yourself extra ... whatever you want), but hacking is not necessarily cheating. Sometimes you have to hack a program to get it to work properly.

QED

thought so

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by ETB

Originally posted by SMIFFGIG
RequireCD=
Where is this found, I looked in the userprofile.txt but it isnt in there so where is it?

It's on the 50th line in my Userprofile.txt file. Here it is with the lines above and below it:

UseRedbookAudio=Yes
RequireCD=No
Prophylaxis=No

Keep looking, you should find it in your userprofile.txt.

What is actual Prophylaxis and what it could be supposed to do?

-Martin