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Re: Arrrrggghhh!!!!!!!!!!! Broke my SEIV Disc

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Riesig_Bar said:
How do you make a back up of the Gold CD?

Any CD burning software should be able to do it. Nero (http://www.nero.com/) and Alcohol 120 (http://www.alcohol-soft.com/) are some of the better ones out there. You can use a demo Version of Alcohol 120 to create a copy of your SE4 CD. Stay away from crap like "Roxio Easy CD Creator" and anything with a similar name. Such software is very shoddy and isn't any cheaper than better software packages.

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Do you need the CD in the drive to play?

No. Having the CD in the drive will allow the SE4 music to play when you are playing the game, but if you have no CD in there, SE4 runs just fine. You can even put any audio CD in the drive and have SE4 play the music from it. It chooses songs based on the settings in Data\Settings.txt related to Combat Tracks and such. Note that track 1 can never be used, as it is the data track on a combined data/audio CD like the SE4 CD is.

Re: Arrrrggghhh!!!!!!!!!!! Broke my SEIV Disc

back up your copy on the hard drive....

Re: Arrrrggghhh!!!!!!!!!!! Broke my SEIV Disc

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LonghornXtreme said:
I'm sooo angry right now...

I'm in the process of moving right now.. (just graduated and got my Biology degree... yippee!) And my disc didn't survive the box. Something shifted and snapped the jewel case I'd put the game in for the move. Its terribly frustrating because now that I've graduated I was planning on getting into some fun PBW games. (In no way am I asking for an image/copy...)

I'm currently torn between ordering up another disc or waiting till SEV and save my budding relationship with my gf who's got definite potential to be 'the' one. I wonder if any of ya'll have had to make that decision in the past. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

The one time I didn't Alcohol120% a game and it gets destroyed.

Oh well... just thought I'd rant a little.

Again. I am in NO way asking for a copy of the game. I support MM and Shrapnel completely.

Sad sad sad,
James

Sorry to hear about your loss mate.

Tho thanks for the warning, could happen to anybody! I made a copy of my disc + an ISO on my HDD that I can load in Daemon tools anytime.
If I still manage to somehow lose SEIV now, I would deserve it.

Re: Arrrrggghhh!!!!!!!!!!! Broke my SEIV Disc

The infomation you already bought. If you write to Shrapenel, asking if you could send the money for a blank CD, and pay for S&H, I'm 99% sure they'd say that they could send you a new one if you do that. If you can't, then get someone to lend you a backup. JUST KEEP THE FRAGMENTS!

Re: Arrrrggghhh!!!!!!!!!!! Broke my SEIV Disc

I broke my original CD of Star Fleet Command once and they replaced it for free, I just shipped them the fragments.

They didn't ask how it broke, fortunatly....

Re: Arrrrggghhh!!!!!!!!!!! Broke my SEIV Disc

screw the girlfriend play se drink some beer [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Barrel.gif[/img] http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image.../beerglass.gif

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tesco samoa said:
screw the girlfriend play se drink some beer [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Barrel.gif[/img] http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image.../beerglass.gif

Erm... screwing the girlfriend is still quite involving the girlfriend and no SE. There might be some beer involved though.

Re: Arrrrggghhh!!!!!!!!!!! Broke my SEIV Disc

Thanks for the reply Imperator Fyron. I will make a back up to avoid losing it all.

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tesco samoa said:
back up your copy on the hard drive....

It's good idea if you assume that hard drives never break. Unfortunately they do (experienced it myself http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif) and then you may find yourself not being able to find original CD as well. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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Spoo said:

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geoschmo said:
Good point. And if I total my car I get to go take another from the lot right? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

If your car were made of information rather than matter, I'd say yes.

Shipping cost, CD printing, manual all cost money - it's not information only.