A Civ II MGE "No-CD" patch...

[Ace]

The last MGE version is 5.4 dated 26 March 1999, Patch 3. I tried that "no cd" crack a few years ago (on a win 98 machine) and it worked just fine.

[civdood]

It works as Starlifter said, fine for me. Thanks to you all!

[TheTopCat]

Ok, took me a little while to get all the patches I wanted running, but I don't like the MGE interface when playing the single-player version...so I came up with this alternative 2-part-patch

In the .zip files you need, you'll find

i) Civ2 MGE patch including the No-CD crack (for all the times I've gone to play a network game only to find I haven't got my CD with my laptop! )
ii) MS-DOS batch files to install and uninstall as necessary with a converter file! To use when you want to convert between the multiplayer and your original version.

Your two downloads are below...

File 1 and File 2

Installation is simple

i) Unzip File 1 to c:\mps\civ2\
ii) Unzip File 2 to c:\mps\civ2\civ2mge\
iii) Run the installmge.bat file in c:\mps\civ2\civ2mge\
iv) Create any necessary shortcuts to both civ2 and the converter

Done!

NB: if you've installed civ2 to a folder or drive other than c:\mps\civ2\ then I'd recommend moving the game to this directory, rather than adjusting the three batch files accordingly

Extra NB: if you don't want the converter, and just the patch that gives you MGE with no-cd crack, then download all, run installmge.bat and manually delete converter.bat, uninstallmge.bat and the folders 'original' and 'civ2mge'

EDIT: found a bug in the conversion but all fixed now with a nice new conversion

[mertalica]

Has anyone tried running civ2_13.com in Vista? I had no problems with it in XP but when i run it in Vista it says Crack Unsuccesseful!!!!....damn Vista....anyone have an idea?

[dizpo]

Hmmm, I guess it's a little late in the game for a No-CD patch for Win7 x64

[Sir_Lancelot]

Originally Posted by starlifter

Since Thunderfall has actually posted a NO-CD patch (AKA "crack") in a different thread, and many have asked in this section about running Civ II MGE with no CD, I'll make some comments and include the link of TF's post.

TF's thread is here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showth...4208#post79489

And the NO-CD crack is here: http://www.civfanatics.com/uploads/C...rack_(MGE).zip

The first link seems to go to a wrong topic; "Send Ctp2 Clan Ways" started by Tripa not Thunderfall.
And the second link is to a page that no longer exists.

Maybe not so strange that links this old don't work.


Why do people want no-cd-cracks? (I know about piracy but I'm sure that's not the case here.) Is it so inconvenient to use the CD?