Outburst (Hasbro CD-ROM Version)
Play Without the Game CD
Outburst should install and play with no issues on Windows 10, but if you try to start the game without the CD in the drive, you'll receive the following error message:
You can bypass this by following these steps for no-CD play:
(1) Insert your Outburst CD and open up File Explorer. You can do this by hitting Windows key + E, or by typing File Explorer in the Windows search bar. Once inside File Explorer, click on your CD-ROM drive in the sidebar. You should see a list of files:
(2) Highlight and copy the audio and movie folders
(3) Navigate to your Outburst game folder on your hard drive (which, unless you changed the path during install, will probably be something like C:\Program Files\Hasbro Interactive (x86)\Outburst)
Once you're inside the Outburst folder, do a CTRL-V or click paste in the toolbar to copy the audio and movie folders to your hard drive.
(4) After this file transfer is completed, go back to your CD drive, and look inside the "art" folder. There is a subfolder named commercial. Highlight and copy that folder over to your hard drive just like you did with the audio and movies folder.
Once you're done, your Outburst folder has to look like this:
(5) Open the "outburst.ini" file in notepad.
Right at the top of the file you'll see artPath, audioPath, moviePath, commPath -- these entries need to be changed so they read as follows:
artPath=art
audioPath=audio
moviePath=movies
commPath=commercial
Click File > Save to register your changes and then try to run the game. You should see the intro movie followed by the main menu.
