The Case For No-CD Cracks!

So about a week before leaving for Germany, last August, I lost my Sims 2 CD. Now, I’ve been using Macs for nearly a year now, and I’ve only bought two games (the other being Republic, which was pretty disappointing). There are a few reasons for this: the number of games out on Mac is pretty low (and they are usually badly ported from PC, meaning they run poorly), I don’t really play much (both because I’m uninterested, and short on time), and I can’t justify spending the money on them.

But I had to get The Sims 2. And it was good, better than the first. I liked it, I played it. Then the CD went missing.

Halfway through the semester in Germany, I looked around online for a no-CD patch (“no-DVD” actually, but you know what I mean). And I found one! And it worked fine, and I played the game. Until one day, when I updated OSX to the latest version (either 10.4.2 or xx.x.3 back then, forget). And then Sims 2 started getting these weird screen artifacts, the menus started disappearing. In short, the game became unplayable.

Why? Why had this happened? No idea. I searched online, and found out that the latest OSX conflicted with Sims 2 for some reason. Odd, but they had a patch for the game! I downloaded the game, eager to play again. But alas! It ruined my no-CD crack! And trying to patch the game again brought it back down to version 1.0, bringing back the screen artifacts.

I can’t seem to find a new no-CD crack. And after tearing the house apart these last few days, I still can’t find my Sims 2 CD. I bought the game legally, give me a crack that lets me play it!

EDIT: I found the crack