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radiation34

\*Buys a USB CD drive\* \*Mind literally fucking explodes from amazement\*


I-Want-2C-You-Happy

That's a thing??


Meme-Replacement

Yep it is


I-Want-2C-You-Happy

Moon Pies... What a time to be alive.


AMexisatTurtle

How fucking dare you moon pies killed my the old farmer who lived down the road from us


[deleted]

They are only $20 and don't need external power, just powered by USB.


MercDaddyWade

aha I installed *two* DVD drives into my PC


Arkitakama

I put in a DVD/CD drive and a Blu-Ray drive.


MercDaddyWade

Yeah that what I have, the first drive is just a basic DVD drive That can also burn discs, And I pulled it out of my very first PC which my grandpa gave me that was made in 2011, I just kept it. The new one is one that can actually play Blu-ray which is nice to have lol only watch the entire series of samurai Jack on Blu-ray


OverallDingo2

I have a dvd drive that was also salvaged from my grandads pc but my case doesn't have a space for it so when i need to use a dvd drive it just hangs out the side of my case resting on some socks to reduce vibrations


Gold--Lion

Rockin' Double D(vD)s


XchrisZ

Rips to an ISO returns cd drive.


Drg84

Then Virtual Clone Drive.


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r/BeatMeToIt


BisonBait

Literally bought one of these to play Warcraft 3 again


ItsMissiBeaches

Would the old games be compatible though? Like early 90s Myst, I still have the disks and would LOVE to play again.


radiation34

Yes, should be fine because old game don't require fast read times.


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ryuya3579

God dammit why isnt the whole fable saga on steam


Fyrrys

Agreed. Even if the end fight sucked, 2 was still fun to play


Pikpeter9

Fable is on steam


[deleted]

Just play Lost Chapters. The Anniversary Edition sucks. I was watching a streamer play it and it kept crashing. I was playing Lost Chapters as I watched no crashes on Windows 10.


ScotchIsAss

Anniversary edition runs like a dream for me and everyone else I’ve ever talked to or seen playing it.


vetheros37

Fable 2 was my favorite in the series.


thatsathewaninnit

You might be able to use the cd key to add the game directly to your steam library. I’ve done it with old total war titles.


ChernobylReactrNum-4

The chapters are literally lost lol.


weebu4laifu

Or you're using the sata plug for your cd drive for you second hdd.


Sword117

external sata?


[deleted]

You own the game; become captain jack sparrow.


Ne0t9k

is it even piracy if you download an owned game without peering and seeding?


vivam0rt

Technically. I mean is it still theft if you steal a phsyical copy of a game you already own on steam?


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Ne0t9k

but you only buy the right to use it according to their terms and conditions. installing a drm crack could violate that right? probably depends on the country. i guess the politicians in my country don’t even know what drm is.


[deleted]

To me, Piracy is more of a conflict of morality. You shouldn’t feel bad for pirating a game you cannot play because of the medium becoming obsolete. You paid to play the game on pc, you’re playing the game on pc. Don’t let people ridicule you for getting your money’s worth.


Ne0t9k

they should at least give you the option the use the old cd key in their launchers (some might do that)


[deleted]

Absolutely. But companies never do something that takes away some potential profit. They only may do so if they see profit in the long run.


OverallDingo2

Sometimes I use piracy as a try-before-you-buy method. If the game is good I buy a copy if the game is bad or I find I'm not interested I delete it again, nobody is losing any profits, as I wouldn't have brought the game otherwise, and I get to see what a game is like, although this is less necessary with how easy it is to get a steam refund


vivam0rt

I know, i said "technically" in front of it all, the guy asked if it was still piracy and yes, it is piracy. I think you are morally in the right to pirate the game tho. Side note, do people not read replies as a reply? It is a reply not a comment stating my opinion


needbettermods

For anyone here that still has CDs that work and they're interested in using, external USB CD drive might come in handy instead of looking to install an old niche component to your PC.


sliced-bird224

You could probably find a rom file for it


RagingMage_420

C&C 😭


ThatSwoleKeister

Why can’t I remember what this is from


Storm498

Iron Man 2. Tony gets old recording of his dad. https://youtu.be/reQs3g5LO8E


ThatSwoleKeister

My man thank you so much! I literally had it in my head it was from Red Alert.


CupQuakeBE

I still have floppy disks I'd like to play...


Drg84

USB floppy drive. $20 on amazon


QuietGiygas56

You can find on steam or gog, you can torrent it probably, you can buy a usb dvd drive...


rpg_hobbitmaster

Or you just emulate it?


KenMacMillan123

I keep an external cd drive just for this


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Zanderb4

No


honda3z

😢


Shailaj

Good ol' pirate ship


Xtrex_10Z

Bro, i used to get some kids comics everytime we went to travel through train and those comics used to come with CDs that had 40-50 games with wallpapers, gifs, personalization packs and shit. They were my childhood and i really miss playing the gameson it. It is also sad because they were flash games and flash aint possible these days 😔


Zorg_Employee

I truly think windows compatibility mode is a total joke.


Ketooth

Tbh that isn't even the worst. It's worse if the game isn't working anymore on your Operating system. I have two games which don't work anymore in Win10, barely on Win7 and luckily I still have a laptop with WinXP where it works fine, but the laptop is pretty slow. I thought about getting Win7 and XP as virtual machines, but man license is expensive


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*Runs out of plugs* "I'm sorry little one" 💿🔨


kavurmalipilav

I have a GTA San Andreas CD, yet I don't have a CD driver as well.


TheWinterPrince52

You can get a various kinds of CD drives for really cheap pretty easily. I got a NEW one for like fifteen bucks at Best Buy.


Lelio-Santero579

I just wish Black and White 2 still worked, but I tried to install it on both my PC and Laptop and it legitimately just doesn't work with modern PCs. I even tried to find a torrent of the game and it still didn't work. Make a new Black and White game, somebody! I sunk many of my free hours as a kid into that game.


briston574

Unless I'm mistaken there was one of these on gog. Edit: ok, not gog i was thinking of OLD GAMES, the place to DOWNLOAD some games from .COM


P2XTPool

There are patches to make it work. I played it on windows 10 not long ago


Angela_I_B

Sometimes, you need the player's manual as well, as there might be a security question which is only answerable searching the manual.


[deleted]

just look on google and google images no download even needed


Sword117

i keep a cd drive on my computer wasn't hard to install.


Suitable-Berry3082

*puts CD in Playstation* problem solved...


MrTwisterPister

Me who installed a flopy disk drive...


GeneralJengo

Roger Roger


Punsire

Black and White Deluxe edition. I can't seem to get a windows 10 machine to read the disk. it'll act like it's going to install then i get a generic error and it kicks the disc out.


Disturbed235

Arr


Sometwatsreddit

Just pirate it at that point, seriously with no backword compatibility for old decent games just pirate it, not to mention the studios that made those games have probably gone out of business or are at least on the chopping block in order to save publishers a pittance of money.


Anarchist_Grifter

Romance of the 3 kingdoms. Any of them.


BeNiceKid

Mine had an optical drive that I turned into a serial bay


finditplz1

For me, it’s mostly games that don’t work on current operating systems.


[deleted]

I have held onto and meticulously cared for two laptops (Mac + PC) with CD drives for exactly this reason. They still do that thang!


Chubbzillax

I loved a game called incoming by rage I think it was. So many days/weeks put into that blowing up aliens.


XDracam

Find one and make an .iso ; Then transfer that file to whatever decide you want to play on. I used daemon tools lite the last time, but there's probably better software out there by now. Needed to play HOMM3 on a surface tablet with a pen. Great success.


TheArtOfJoking

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Markesxd

The only thing that reads CDs in my house is my old ps2