Awesome! Ill try this utility tonight! thanks!

I have a flight sim air racing game from a company that has long since disappeared.  It's one of those that has a CD-check routine of some type so that it won't run unless the CD is physically loaded in the drive.  I'd like to be able to run the game without the CD (in case it gets damaged or lost).  Is there a utility of any sort that will remove the CD-check routine?  Thanks in advance.

Daiwa, you might want to look at Game Jackal by Slysoft. It works copying images to the games own profile (like a virtual disk). It works pretty good in conjunction with another product of theirs call Any DVD which strips protection schemes off DVDs and CDs (including Blue Ray) while in the tray.

http://www.slysoft.com/en/

Thanks very much to the poster for this.  I have a question for anyone who understands more about what securom does and how it gets installed:

There are a lot of games that I would love to play but don't because of this horrid protection scheme.  Spore is one that I would love to try out, along with many other EA games--C&C games and such.  Here is my question:

If after intalling the game I remove securom, will it just reinstall iteself by running the game's executable or will it only reinstall itself if I reinstall the game?

Thanks.

If the game runs you can assume it has reinstalled the securom stuff. Otherwise the check would not do it's job.