Mostly asking because I’ve never used these before due to never needing to. That, and I have a few old disc based PC games that I’d love to be able to straight up boot without the game disc. These are games I could just pirate, but I figure I already own them in disc, so I’d rather see if there are any reputable places with no-disc patches. The places I’ve looked in the megathread don’t have what I’m looking for.

Closest they have is either a link to the game on another platform in the case of My Abandonware due to it being sold, or a link to just straight up pirate the full thing in the case of Magipack Games. I’ve also done some digging on the Internet Archive but have yet to yield results (probably because I suck at finding things there). Still gonna keep looking there, but any helpful info would be much appreciated.

I don’t think I can share the game names, even in DM, due to the rules here, so site mainpages are my best shot.

  • °˖✧ ipha ✧˖°@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    You’ve just dredged up a core memory! I can’t believe they’re still around and I haven’t used a CD drive in so long that I’ve forgotten that no-CD patches were a thing.

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      5 months ago

      Right?

      I’d forgotten about them for years… Went to play an old game the other day and it came to mind…somehow remembered it after a couple days