Trying to get ff7 to work off hard drive

[Furzball]

Ok, I do have not one but two set of ff7 cd's. Non the less all the cd's make alot of noise in my laptops hard drive. It's even gotten to the point where my laptop has vibrated a few inches across the desk. So one of the things I've been trying to burn the cd's to my computer so that they'd just run off the hard drive, therefore eliminating the vibration (This vibrating happens on alot of older disks like the thief disks as well. Dont know why). So I try to use alcohol120% to make ISO's and CCD's of the game disks. I mount them and they show up, autoplay, everything. But when I click the game to start, it still asks me for a cd. How do I fix this?

[Kudistos Megistos]

Have you fixed the registry? What's the letter of your virtual drive, and what does the registry say for "DataDrive"?

Because if you installed it from E:\ and your discs are now mounted in F:\...

[titeguy3]

Registry issue. Your virtual drive letter isn't the same as the drive letter you installed the game on originally.

Two ways to fix this:
1) Re-install the game using your ISO of your FF7 Install disc
2) Start...run..."regedit" Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SQUARE SOFT, INC\FINAL FANTASY VII\ and change "DataDrive" from whatever it is to the virtual drive letter you're using.

[willis936]

You'd need a nocd crack/patch.
Technically legal if you own the discs, but not allowed to be discussed here.  Not too hard to find one, very difficult to get it working (especially with 1.02/chocobo and other patches).

I personally don't buy that story, but not my place to say.


I did read a method a while ago saying if you edit the registry and change the data drive to C:\ and rename your C drive whatever the name of the disc is (eg FF7DISC2).

I have not tested this method but it's clever and I'm sure it works if you know what you're doing.
nb4locketc

[titeguy3]

There's nothing illegal about making ISO's of your game discs as long as you don't redistribute them. I run FF7 via this method and I can guarantee that it works so long as you change the data drive in the registry as I specified above.

[Kudistos Megistos]

nb4locketc

How about inb4being told that a no CD crack is completely unnecessary

I do the same thing as titeguy and I can confirm that it works perfectly. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if most of the people on these forums play the game off mounted ISOs with no need for a no CD crack.

[Furzball]

The thing about the no-cd crack is that it messes with the programming of ff7. Which I'm going to be doing plenty of with modding it. Not sure what the nocdpatch mods but I'd rather not break something while I'm fiddling with the program.

Anyways I'll try messing with the reg and backing that file up for future use. Also I'll try making an ISO out of the install disk, installing it from the virtual drive, and then trying to play it. Plus I should be able to back up the reg from that as well.

I find it funny that willis brings up not buying my story. But my question is, with all the "Redistribution" online, why would I want to make one myself? For one, it's not anything new or in demand. So no, would be a waste on my part.

I'll report in once the registry is fixed.

[Prince Lex]

Uhhh... OK then ^^^^ 0_o

I'm saying nothing about that.

There is absolutely no need for a no-cd patch, just change your registry to reflect the place that you keep your movies. And either use ISO's of your game discs or the game discs themselves, it's really up to you.

[Furzball]

ok, uninstalled, and reinstalled from the ff7install.iso

Got it working, at first freaked cause movies weren't showing and resolution was messed. But I smacked my head with a V8 and got the patches and everything to fix it. Then it worked. Now time to get to work fiddling with mods and trying to make my own (Most likely crashing and burning, but hey, fail 99 times and get something good once and I'll be good.) Thanks guys and gals.

[omnivorism]

I have a similar problem. but cant seem to solve it.

I have the iso image, and I have tried to install the program several times from it.

If i use daemon tools, it only seems interested in reinstalling it.

I changed the registry as described above, but no change.

I just put both the iso, and the unpacked/installed game directly on the C: directory, but i still get the "please insert disc" error.  Even with daemon tools having the iso on c selected.

[omnivorism]

ok nevermind for now. i figured out part of the problem and will return with it later if i cant figure it out.