Diablo 2, issues. somewhat complicated situation

Ok guys here's what's happening. I'm trying to play diablo 2 without the expansion on my new dell inspiron laptop. The first issue i had was well i didn't have a play cd as i missplaced it and the house kinda burnt down so i'd say its gone for good. I have the install disk, cinematics disk and cd-key. So to bypass that minor annoyance i downloaded the diablo play cd iso from a torrent. I then mounted it with daemon tools and installed the game. I then patched it to 1.11. However even with the play cd mounted using daemon tools it still asks me to insert the play cd. I then tried mounting it with Alcohol 52% and Virtual clone drive to no avail. I also after mounting it using daemon tools burnt it to a dvd. I can install it using the burnt dvd as teh play cd but it still asks me to instert the play cd when i try to play. I also tried a no-cd crack i believe is called d2loader which also didn't help. I tried running diablo 2 in different compatability modes for xp and for windows 2000 but that also didn't do anything. What should I do now?

Thanks in advance,

Andrew

 

Contact Blizzard and see if they will send you a play disk. Or just buy one: http://www.amazon.com/Blizzard-Entertainment-70929-Diablo-2/dp/B00002CF9M

Fun game, I wish they would make a Diablo3...

E

 

I actually got it working by patching it to version 1.11b and then downloading the d2loader for version 1.11b. For some reason even when using the loader i still have to have the burnt play cd in the cd drive. I'm just happy i can play the game i paid for. It is a great game I got it in 2001 i think, would love to see a diablo 3 but atm looks like hellgate is as close as it is going to get and thats a pretty repetative game.

Andrew

 

Please ban the previous poster, the last thing needed is spamming farmers