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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on January 17, 2008, 02:26:00 am

Title: Starcraft no longer require CD to run
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 17, 2008, 02:26:00 am

Yes, tonight, I logged into battle.net, and got an update, it took one second and guess what I found in the version history.txt?

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- patch 1.15.2
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  Feature Changes

- StarCraft and StarCraft: BroodWar no longer require the CD while playing the
  game.  To play without the CD, please follow the following instructions:

- Windows Users:
    - Make sure you have "Hide extensions for known types" unchecked under
      Explorer Folder Options.
    - If you own only StarCraft, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft CD to
      your StarCraft folder and rename it to "StarCraft.mpq".
    - If you own StarCraft: Brood War, copy "INSTALL.EXE" from the StarCraft:
      Brood War CD to your StarCraft folder and rename it to "BroodWar.mpq".

- Mac users:
    - If you own only StarCraft, copy "StarCraft Archive" from the StarCraft CD
      to your StarCraft folder.
    - If you own StarCraft: Brood War, copy "Brood War Archive" from the
      StarCraft: Brood War CD to your StarCraft folder.

Its great now I can listen to music on CDs while playing ^^

Title: Starcraft no longer require CD to run
Post by: dinhotheone on January 17, 2008, 08:41:00 am

man, i still gota find my sc cd...

Title: Starcraft no longer require CD to run
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 17, 2008, 10:38:00 am

Now US east is down ;.;

Title: Starcraft no longer require CD to run
Post by: Liazon on January 17, 2008, 02:19:00 pm

o.o does this happen to a lot of old games?

Blizzard must be really nice then ^^

Title: Starcraft no longer require CD to run
Post by: kalan_vod on January 17, 2008, 07:26:00 pm

Nice, I would like to had seen them do this for Diablo and Diablo 2 back in the day..

Title: Starcraft no longer require CD to run
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 17, 2008, 07:55:00 pm

i wonder why they ddint do that before. Maybe it was easier to crack


and now I am glad US East is back up

Title: Starcraft no longer require CD to run
Post by: kalan_vod on January 18, 2008, 01:21:00 am

Yes easy to crack, but if caught you would be banned (temp, sometimes longer).

Title: Starcraft no longer require CD to run
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 18, 2008, 01:41:00 am

yeah you can get banned if you use the same key than someone else

Title: Starcraft no longer require CD to run
Post by: Liazon on January 18, 2008, 07:55:00 pm

the thing I don't like about having the CD in is that I find that the CD/DVD drives are getting burnt out slowly.  don't respond as fast as they used to.

Title: Starcraft no longer require CD to run
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 18, 2008, 08:20:00 pm

yeah when i listen to music sometimes mine start loading for about 10 seconds then continue

Title: Starcraft no longer require CD to run
Post by: kalan_vod on January 18, 2008, 08:36:00 pm

Kevin: why dont you just rip the cds to your pc ;)

Title: Starcraft no longer require CD to run
Post by: Netham45 on January 18, 2008, 08:52:00 pm

yea, I have 18GB of music on my PC. Most of it is random unsigned bands, though. You like those spoliers, dontchya? :D

Title: Starcraft no longer require CD to run
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 18, 2008, 09:40:00 pm

i dont rip it to my pc cuz i only have 80 GB of diskspace

Title: Starcraft no longer require CD to run
Post by: kalan_vod on January 18, 2008, 10:18:00 pm

That would be a great reason ;), but you could buy a 250gb eternal HDD for around 100 USD (cheaper than it used to be, or just get a 250gb HDD for around 75 USD).

Title: Starcraft no longer require CD to run
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 18, 2008, 11:04:00 pm

then i need the money...

Title: Starcraft no longer require CD to run
Post by: Liazon on January 19, 2008, 02:28:00 pm

o.o 80GB is more than I've ever used in my life...