Fortunately, there is a way to play most games without having the CD or DVD in your Mac. We're going to show you how to copy your game's CD or DVD onto your Mac's hard drive, which will fool the game into thinking that the disk is present when it really isn't. However, since all games are different, not every game can be used from your hard drive.
Mac Media Player, famous for its perfect HD playback throughout the world, is also an excellent Free DVD Player. Featuring output up to 1080p, DTS5.1 audio system, ultrafast speed, and handy operation, Macgo DVD Player software can give you the best multimedia enjoyment.
Preparations you need to do:
Mac OS X 10.6 - 10.11
Intel Core2 Duo 2.4GHz processor or higher recommended
512 MB RAM or higher recommended
250 MB of free disk space
Internal or external drive
Free trial version of this powerful Media Player is now available on Macgo Official Download Center, or you can click here to download Free Mac Media Player, and then drag its icon to your Application folder.
After installing Free Mac Media Player, you can go to 'Launchpad' and click on its icon to launch the program. The simplified main interface will reduce certain misoperations. You can see two buttons there: Open File and Open Disc.
Insert the DVD you want to play in the drive. There will appear two buttons in the center of the interface - 'Open File' and 'Open Disc'. Press the second one, and follow the instructions. After a few seconds, a main menu will pop out, and you can make some adjustments according to your preferences.
During the playback, you can make video settings as follows:
1) Snapshot: Ctrl+Alt+S
Snapshot the movie by shortcut keys or pressing the 'Snapshot' in 'Tools'.
2) Adjustments
Click 'Tools' button and select 'Adjustments'. There are five sections to be set in video tuner: brightness, saturation, contrast, gamma, and hue. If you want to reset them, you can press 'Reset' button. Moreover, if you want to keep the settings, you can check the 'Always apply the settings' on the left bottom.
3) Aspect Ratio
If you want to adjust aspect ratio, you can find it in 'Video' on the tool menu.
4) Screen size
You can adjust screen size by shortcut keys or through the options in 'Video' on the tool menu.
Half size: Command+1 Normal size: Command+2 Double size: Command+3 Fit to the screen: Command+4
NOTE If the video playback is unsuccessful, here are some tips for you.
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by Joe on June 19, 2009 in Mac - Last Update: December 04, 2017 - 17 comments
Computer users often hate having to have a CD or DVD in their drive to run a game. To circumvent this, images are often burned to hard drives or cracks used. Cracks are rapidly found for Windows, but it can be an extreme chore to find them for Macs.
EA use a product called Cider to power many of their Mac games. Cider basically adds a wrapper around the original PC game, and translates it on-the-fly to Mac. The recent release of 'The Sims 3', for example, works on OS X and Windows due to Cider.
Cider is likely to become more wide-spread. It saves game developers from having to develop ports, allows Mac and PC games to be released at the same time and ultimately little extra work must be put in to reach a larger market.
But Cider also allows certain Windows cracks to be implemented on Macs.
On OS X, Applications are actually just packages. If you have The Sims 3, for example, and go to the App and right click on 'Show Package Contents', and then choose 'transgaming', you will see a Windows folder structure. In there, all the files you'd expect to see are there. Basically, there's a 'The Sims 3.app>Contents>Resources>transgaming>c_drive>program files>Electronic Arts>The Sims 3' folder.
The benefit of there being a hidden Windows folder structure in these apps is simple. If there's a No-CD crack where you just have to replace a .exe, you find that .exe inside the Package and replace it. And then it works just like it does under Windows.
This won't work on the other hand if you need to run a Windows program to modify game files as they are not designed for the Mac operating system and won't work because of this.
Cider is not only used by EA but also by 2K, Rockstar, Disney and Sony to name a few companies.
Easy No-CD and No-DVD for games on Mac
Description
Joe describes a method of applying a no-CD patch or no-DVD patch for games running on Apple's Macintosh operating system.