I would have thought GameCopyWorld would have something, but no. Just google 'primal rage nocd' and try your luck against viruses I guess?

ldeveraux wrote on 2022-08-31, 16:57:

I would have thought GameCopyWorld would have something, but no. Just google 'primal rage nocd' and try your luck against viruses I guess?

Tried that, only thing I could find was a txt file describing which bytes to change using an hex editor. Changed it but it didn't work.
Also tried downloading abandonware version of the game, but only one I can find is the 4mb version.

gaffa2002 wrote on 2022-08-31, 18:46:

ldeveraux wrote on 2022-08-31, 16:57:

I would have thought GameCopyWorld would have something, but no. Just google 'primal rage nocd' and try your luck against viruses I guess?

Tried that, only thing I could find was a txt file describing which bytes to change using an hex editor. Changed it but it didn't work.
Also tried downloading abandonware version of the game, but only one I can find is the 4mb version.

I got this working using a small dos util called 'KGB Utility 1.04' many years ago. You run it and it monitors some dos functions like opening and closing files. It saves it to a history file and you can look at what files the game is checking for and using as protection.
Again this was back in the 90's but it was simply a case of hex editing this filename out in the .exe and it worked. You still need to load mscdex and the cd driver while using kgb. I had to do it when my cd drive broke and they were expensive back then.

Riikcakirds wrote on 2022-09-01, 15:03:

gaffa2002 wrote on 2022-08-31, 18:46:

ldeveraux wrote on 2022-08-31, 16:57:

I would have thought GameCopyWorld would have something, but no. Just google 'primal rage nocd' and try your luck against viruses I guess?

Tried that, only thing I could find was a txt file describing which bytes to change using an hex editor. Changed it but it didn't work.
Also tried downloading abandonware version of the game, but only one I can find is the 4mb version.

I got this working using a small dos util called 'KGB Utility 1.04' many years ago. You run it and it monitors some dos functions like opening and closing files. It saves it to a history file and you can look at what files the game is checking for and using as protection.
Again this was back in the 90's but it was simply a case of hex editing this filename out in the .exe and it worked. You still need to load mscdex and the cd driver while using kgb. I had to do it when my cd drive broke and they were expensive back then.

Many thanks! Will try it and report back.
Edit: Tried using KGB, it shows some files the game attempts to open, but nothing that seemed to be relevant for the CD check at first glance. Didn't check much because luckily I was able to find the old exe I used to have on the internet (mine is version 1.0 of the game), now I'm being able to play it without the CD again.
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions, will surely keep this KGB tool as it seems very useful if I ever need to know which files are used by other games.