Can I put 'The Beast Within' on DVD?

tamper · Mon 18/10/2004 08:48:30

Hi,

I've got 6 CDs of Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within (dontya love the compactness of FMV games?).

Anyway, I thought it mught be a good idea to burn them to 1 DVD. Has anyone tried this? If so, would I just copy all the files and sub directories into one master directory and burn from that?

Just thought I'd ask before wasting a DVD trying....

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Gilbert · Mon 18/10/2004 08:56:38

I think someone with a DVD-RW (or whatever, I'm never familiar with this kind of things, I don't own a DVD drive either) can try it on a RW disk first, that way you can test the possibility without wasting a disc.

Esseb · Mon 18/10/2004 09:02:29

Make an iso instead and use Daemon Tools for simulating a DVD drive.

BOYD1981 · Mon 18/10/2004 09:19:52

well, the game install would still ask you to insert the different CDs during the install (unless you somehow made your own installer) and also probably during gameplay...
you could always ISO all 6 discs and then create 6 virtual CD drives and insert each one into it's own virtual drive...
unfortunately i don't have the game otherwise i would probably try with a dvd+rw myself.

tamper · Mon 18/10/2004 09:25:18

Yeah - I was trying to avoid the Daemon Tools route, since I'd have to set up the multiple drives every time I played.

Timosity · Mon 18/10/2004 09:35:16

Speaking of this game, I recently got it off ebay and I got all the way up to disk 6, and it worked for a little bit and when I got to a certain point it kept crashing.

There was a few scratches on the disk but it seemed to work and I could view all the files, I was a bit worried but I had to get up to disk 6 before I could tell. It seemed allright for a while then I found out is was corrupt.

I tried to burn an iso from it and try copying it but it failed.

I didn't pay too much for it, but now I'm going to have to buy another version unless some one wants to send me disk 6.

It's the first bad ebay experience I've had, it's frustrating getting so far and then not being able to finish.

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Mon 18/10/2004 11:38:11

Well, in YOUR case, Timosity, since you payed for it, I suppose it would be all right to resort to some program like KaZaa, EMule...

Timosity · Mon 18/10/2004 12:01:52

well technically it's not okay, but technically buying 2nd hand games (software) off ebay isn't either since usually a license is for one computer only.

so technically it's exactly the same issue as abandonware, (buying games off ebay), but it seems more socially acceptable.

I'll keep an eye on ebay for another copy, they have copies all the time, I'll just wait till I win one at a reasonable price, i'm not in any rush. I never seem to find these games on Kazaa, and very rarely use it these days.

Sorry for crashing the thread, it just reminded me of the above, and I have no idea about whether copying it to a DVD works but it sounds an interesting idea.

Esseb · Mon 18/10/2004 18:00:39

Quote from: tamper on Mon 18/10/2004 09:25:18
Yeah - I was trying to avoid the Daemon Tools route, since I'd have to set up the multiple drives every time I played.

In case it was a response to me, I was suggesting making a DVD to see if it worked, but instead of wasting a DVD+-R on it if you've got no RW simply use Daemon Tools.

tamper · Mon 18/10/2004 18:22:43

Oh I see - I didn't realise you could make a Daemon Image from a folder full of files. How do you do that?

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Esseb · Mon 18/10/2004 18:40:35

You use a burning application and make an image instead of burning to a cd/dvd. Should be possible in most burning applications, but you might have to look around the menus and help files a little as it's not usually done from where you would assume.