Maybe it is a pirate copy.

Pirates use something called a crack to do it of your tale. The game is installed then with the crack the CD is not needed anymore.

Hummm..well done, Brent. Here are my 15, hope you read them. No particular order, except the ones that cross my mind ATM:1.-Super Mario Allstars + World: Yes, 5 different games. But, well. It was Christmas ’94. Iwas six at the time, and I got my first console. It came with this special package of 5 games in one. Amazing. Even though I had already played the NES versions, as my cousin owned one, these remastered versions were even better. I spent so many nights trying to beat Super Super Mario Bros. 3 as I like to call it, in just one sit. My first SNES cartridge. ‘Nuff said.2.- Legend Of Zelda, Ocarina Of Time:I LOVE, and I Mean LOVE A link To The Past, it game me many hours of fun and beating it with 100% of items was a challenge. But what was a challenge here, many time sbecame impossible in OoT. Besides, it has a deeper storyline, not to mention the graphics and the battle system was revolutionary at the time. The hirst time I saw link on 3d my jaw dropped.3.- Grim Fandango: The first time I played this game I could not stop laughing. Being mexican, I imediately got al the references. This game has it all, a complex and epic storyline, awesome characters and really good humour. And an amazing soundtrack as well. Also, to the date it has some of the most complex puzzles I’ve seen ona videogame. That year three slot opening door or trying to put the damn arrow signs on the forst is actually frustrating.4.-Chrono Trigger: I’ll be honest. I never got it on SNES, mostly because I played it once at a friend’s house and I got bored the first five minutes I played it. iwas 8 at the time, and well, I was not that much into RPG’s.Not even because I’m a Dragon Ball fan and the characters somehow looked alike. Some years later, at 12, I stumbled upon it as a ROM, and gave it another chance. I could not stop until I finished it with all the possible endings. I regret not having payed much attention to it before. To date, I have it on my DS.5.- Dragon Ball Z: Super Boutoden 2. Living in mexico it is easy to find all kinds of pirated and counterfeit stuff. And once I ran into this game, an ACTUAL physical copy of the game. As I mentioned, I’m a huge Dragon ball fan, and I did not doubt it, and bought it. At the time, it was simply MARVELOUS. Granted, it was the japanese version, but it did not matter to me. Al that mattered to me was that I could control Vegeta and make a Final Flash. And the storyline was quite good, faithful to the series, and even if I did not understand shit, it actually changed, based on decitions and on whether you won or lost a battle. You could even get to face Broly and get a pretty good ending. 6.-Mega Man X3: I know you’re not that much into the “X” series, but they marked my life and childhood. I had already played MM3 to 6 on NES, and when I got the first “X”, for me it was a HUGE improvement. I did not had any idea what happened with Wiley (If anyone knows, do let me know) and in fact it felt like a complete different game in many aspects, But I really liked it. When I got to X3 the experience only got better.7.-Street Fighter II: The New challengers: I’ve always loved fighting games. And my first fighting game was the TURBO version of SF II. It was damn good. loved it. But what happened when I realizaed there was another version with 4 NEW CHARACTERS and new movements? As far as I got it, couldn’t stop. Finally Ken and Ryu felt like two different characters. And there was this supposed mexican indian, that looked and had the name of a native American, but who cares? HE WAS FUCKIN’ MEXICAN!!!8.-Earthworm Jim 2: I never really played the first one. But the first vtime I played this game, I could not stop laughing. TALKING COWS?? SERIOUSLY?? THAT WAS YOUR REWARD FOR FINISHING A LEVEL?? And the fsrther you got into the game, the crazier it got. ALIEN COWS? FALLING GRANNIES? A GIANT SALT SHAKER?? I couldn’t help it I fell in love with the game. It never got old. 9.-M.U.G.E.N. Not actually a game,but a program. With this shit you could do your own fighting games. As previously stated I LOVE fighting games, and what could be btter than a fighting game where ANY character could be in? I remember downloading characters like crazy, many years ago. The game never ended. 10.-Final Fantasy VIII: After I got into RPG’s, I started to love this saga. I played all from IV to VI. They were awesome. The thing got better with VII, and the storyline was even better. But VIII just stole my heart. Everything you have in VII, you have it in VIII, upgraded. Not to mention not dealing anymore with stupid armours. Instead, you interacted with the summons, the summons became like Pokemon!! You needed to train them, they leveled up the more you used them and learnt new techinques. AND THEY ALSO HAD A TRADING CARD GAME!! And the story of the game is so maginficent..so romantic. To the date, Rinoa keeps on being my animated love.11.- Pokemon Gold & SilverThe POkemon fever struck when i was 10 or 11, so, it was inevitable for me not to get infected with it. I really enjoyed the conecpt of trading with your friends, it made a game totally interactive for the first time. And Gold & Silver made it even better with the concept of day and night. If you played at daytime, it was actually daytime on the game, and certain POkemon would only appear at that time. A truly innovative game. 11.- Donkey Kong Country. A magnificent game, too bad the sequels were just good. It also had plenty of things, amazing storyline, puzzled, yes you could play the game straightforward, not caring about the bonuses, but if you did you were rewarded at the end. And you played as a couple of CHIMPS!! MONKEYS. WITH A TIE. AND A CAP. And it had also the amazing ( for its time) gact that each one of them was unique. Donkey could do things Diddy couldn’t. And viceversa. To really conquer the game you had to master not one, as with mario games, but TWO characters, knowing their weakneses and their strong points. And make them work as a couple. 12.-Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3: The first MK I played, was II. And even though I was 6 at the time, I really did not care. I was suprised at the amount of blood, but not enough to be traumatized. In fact, I enjoyed making fatalities. It was a very crazy thing. When 3 came, i was kinda disappointed. Not enough characters. And many I liked were gone. So, it came the remastered version of it, the ULTIMATE version. And I loved it this time. A lot of characters to pick from, many hidden secrets and Kodes, one of which included one button fatalities. Now I could torture my opponent without doubting he would suffer. Or not.13.-Super Metroid: An amazing shooter. I must confess I had not played the other games, but I really learnt to love this game. A Lot of puzzles, strange enemies, and on top of that, a girl in bikini. Sometimes I died on purpose just to see Samus’ thong. For me it was like a mixture of Mega Man X and A Link To The Past. Simply perfect.14: Hybrid Heaven. This game may be for this time almost forgotten. But for me it had a huge impact. As you loved Deus EX becaues it merged ROG with FPS, I loved Hybrid Heaven because it merged RPG with fighting games. And a pretty solid science fiction oriented story. 15.- Diablo II. I got the first Diablo many, many years ago. And I simply loved the gloomy and dark environment. And the storyline was amazing. The fact that the mpas were randomly generated made for a great replay value. You never got to fully master the game, becasue each time you replayed it, it was different. Diablo II took this to the extremes. I’m still waiting for III to come out.If you got this far, Thank you, Floss You rock