The original post: /r/piracy by /u/halee1 on 2025-02-23 01:08:10.
Alright, blast of nostalgia from the past :)
So I want to remove the DRM from BIN+CUE images of late 1990s CD games, as there are no No-CD cracks I've found for most versions of what I'm looking for. I already know how to play a copy-protected EXE by using a batch file that mounts an image and then runs the game, but I want to save additionally on space (and on time, even if it's a little, but it adds up over time) by forgoing the use of mounted images altogether, yet I haven't been able to find decryption mechanisms when using various older programs to write a new CD image. I may be wrong, but they seem to rely on the user having an actual CD reader/writer present on the PC, which it's not, given how modern mine is. I want the same for games released at that time and in the 2000s on DVDs. Is there a way to do that?
Also, could it happen that official patches released later for those games may fail to execute or would restore the copy protection mechanism once applied to the game install folder?
Cheers!