

The program will then begin creating the. Another window should pop up asking you where you want to save the. Insert you Brood War CD into your computer and select from the drop down list the drive it is in. Here is a free program I found that you can create disc images with:ĭownload LC ISO Creator, extract the files and run the program.

You can do this with a variety of programs. Next we have to create a disc image of BW. If it is not there, go to where you installed it (default is C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite on Vista) and run daemon.exe.Ĥ. Whether you need to or not, once that is done you should have a Daemon Tools icon on your taskbar in the bottom right. On the part where it asks you which components you want to install, you can safely uncheck all the options except for the core files. Make sure to double check each step and to only select the necessary options. WARNING! This installer has a lot of adware, for example it might ask you if you want to install their toolbar and also if you want to set their website to your homepage. exe file that you downloaded and follow the instructions provided in the installer. Be sure you click the correct download button, NOT the Start Download button at the top.Ģ. First of all, visit the following link and download the program Daemon Tools Lite v4.30.4. What Daemon Tools Lite does is create this virtual disc drive.ġ. A virtual drive is like another fake disc drive (so you can basically have two CDs on your computer at once one that is in your real disc drive and one on your virtual drive).

What we then do with this disc image is mount it on a virtual drive. Disc images come in a variety of formats. So basically you have a CD on the computer without actually physically having the disc. If you are unfamiliar with what a disc image is, a disc image is basically the same thing as a CD, except it is stored virtually on your computer's hard drive. Note that this is completely legal so as long as you do not distribute your copy of Brood War disc image that you burn. I'm sorry if most of you already know this and I am pointing out the obvious, but hopefully this may be useful to some people who are not as experienced with this software. So I decided to write this tutorial on how to create a disc image of Brood War and successfully mount it with Daemon Tools. Since I am new to BW I knew I couldn't really write an article on strategy and I can't translate Korean articles since I don't know Korean. sorryĪfter joining TL I was thinking of ways I could contribute. #1 How to Play BW Without a CDĮdit: ugh disregard this, turns out you can already do this due to the patch.
