The House of The Dead PC Game. Asking for CD

[rdowdy95]

Here is the deal.  I have the PC game by Xplosiv it is the original The House Of The Dead.  My thing is whenever I try to play the game it ask me for the CD.  It works fine when the CD is in the tray, but when it is not in the drive it says game wont run without cd.  My shortcut I use to this game is the default one.

C:\Sega\THOTD\THOTD.exe -cd_nocheck -d3d

I would figure the -cd_nocheck would be all I need to get it to go.  That is the default oe the game put on there.

I also downloaded the The Troubleshooter for the ActLabs gun to get this game to work on my cab, and it is cool.  I have part 2 and 3.  I want this original one so I can have the Trilogy of HOTD Games.  Anyone wit this problem or game got this to work yet with no cd?

[shardian]

Do one of two things, get a no cd crack off the innernets, or rip the cd image to your hard drive and use Daemon Tools to mount the image.

[btp2k2]

Well, I did this for the Dragon's Lair disks, don't see why it wouldn't work in this case.....

I made a CD image using Alcohol 120% and just have the image mounted to a virtual drive. That way, I don't have to get into the cabinet to insert a disk. Works great.

ANd yes....I realize that the CD version of Dragon's Lair sucks....blame Amazon!

[rdowdy95]

I will keep trying to find the no cd crack.

[rdowdy95]

OKay I finally found a patch.  It is hard to find stuff for an almost 10 year old game.  I haven't tried it yet, but hopefully it will work.  I am going to try it when I get off work.

[steveh]

did you try game copy world  ( i dont know if it would be bad to link it here or not)

[headkaze]

A little OT, but here is a wrapper I wrote to launch Hod3 immediately without having to select it from the launcher menu.

[steveh]

A little OT, but here is a wrapper I wrote to launch Hod3 immediately without having to select it from the launcher menu.

Sweet thx i will probably need this at some point.

[Organic Jerk]

A little OT, but here is a wrapper I wrote to launch Hod3 immediately without having to select it from the launcher menu.

That's awesome..  I actually got another script around the forum and I would love to see how others do this..

Is this supposed to be a replacement of the launcher exe?  Or is this an AHK script?  If it's AHK, could you post the script so we can see the code?

[headkaze]

A little OT, but here is a wrapper I wrote to launch Hod3 immediately without having to select it from the launcher menu.

That's awesome..  I actually got another script around the forum and I would love to see how others do this..

Is this supposed to be a replacement of the launcher exe?  Or is this an AHK script?  If it's AHK, could you post the script so we can see the code?

Actually mine is not an AHK script it's a C++ application. You could quite easily write this as a AHK script though.

Basically it works like this:

1. Launch the hod3launch program, bring it to front and activate it
2. Wait for input idle
3. Send the WM_MOUSEMOVE event to location 321, 216
4. Send the WM_LBUTTONDOWN then WM_LBUTTONUP at location 321, 216 to click the first menu item
5. Exit

[Organic Jerk]

I originally tried to create an ahk script to do the same thing with the mouseclick, but a script I got from the user "Cananas" was actually a more vaible solution, and used the actual game exe without even touching the launcher... you might want to take a look at it.

It changes the registry entry that momentarily dismisses the launcher each time you run the game.

You can check it out near the end of this thread..
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=34956.0

[headkaze]

Ahh that's a nicer way to do things.. I've updated my launcher to use the registry method, download is same as the last one.