Somethin like DAEMON tools for Linux?

LonelyStar · Guru Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 390

Hello together,

I am trying to play Warcraft III (with wine) on my laptop. Unfortantly is the CD-ROM of my laptop broken. So I made a iso image (on a different computer) of the CD and mounted it over loopack device. Installation went fine, but when I try to start the game it can not find the cdrom.

Is there a way I can moun the iso image making Warcraft III think it's in a CD-ROM-Drive?
Or do you have any other Ideas?

Thanks!
Nathan

jonqrandom · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 10

i don't have a technical solution, but seeing as you have the original CD and all, i can't see what would be wrong with just getting a nocd patch - i'm not advocating piracy or anything like that, but if you own the game you should get to play it

BlackEdder · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:33 pm Post subject:

You can mount it as a loop device (you need loop device support in the kernel)

LonelyStar · Guru Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 390

Hello,
Thanks for your replies.
Mounting as a loop device does not help (that is the way I installed warcraft). The game does not recognize it as the CD. I also did not yet find a NoCD patch for warcraft (Frozen Throne to be exact) that worked. I probably have to search a little more

Nathan

BlackEdder · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:28 pm Post subject:

You probably have to tell wine (through winecfg) to treat the loop device directory as a cdrom

(l)user · Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 334 Location: Poland

There is such tool, its called cdemu. It used to be for *.bin *.cue only but it seems they have added support for .mds, .ccd, .nrg in lastest release.
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Maetis · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 21

You can mount .iso, .nrg and .mdf with the mount command, only .bin/.cue needs cdemu AFAIK.

.ISO :
mount -t iso9660 -o loop,user image.iso /wheretomount

.MDF : (haven't tested this though)
mount image.mdf -o loop=/dev/loop0 /wheretomount

.NRG :
mount -o loop,offset=307200 image.nrg /wheretomount
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RushPL · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject:

Naib · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:15 pm Post subject:

Then the only other explanation is copy-protection - the good old kind that works on physical disk only. Thus an ISO image (mounting as a loop back is good enough) wont work

There is no equiv of "emulate ###" for Linux cause that game isn't a Linux game
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chico_r · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Brazil

killertux · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 119

Seem like this do not work at all cdemu 0.7 from portage do not emerge at all and cdemu 0.8 and latest version from svn installs and everyting goes well
after I try the last command for mounting bin/cue mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdemu0 /mnt/cdrom there it fails and claims the image is damaged or someting like that... if type is not defined it ask to define the image type.
anyway TODO(if it's not outdated) file says subchannel is not support so it do not work with Warcraft III.

Salius · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 59 Location: ~/

Hi guys,

I made my own NoCD patch for Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne that I *know* works for 1.0 (initial install). I've not bothered patching so if you updated your WC3 install you're SOL.
If anybody wants my NoCD patch then shoot me a line and I shall share.

DISCLAIMER: Piracy is bad, mmmk? Be sure to own the game if you approach me for what I've offered or you may/may not end up as prison currency.

chico_r · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Brazil