Playing a DVD with a CD drive?

[guynamedsean]

Feel free to call me an idiot.

Either way, I purchased a game and missed the little note that told me it required a DVD drive. I have a CD-Rom drive, but not a DVD-Rom drive. Rut roh.

Now, I realize the long term solution would be to buy/order a DVD-Rom drive, which I'll gladly do at some point...but at the moment I just don't have any spare money to do it with, despite how cheap I know they can be.

Thusly my question is, is there any way - via some piece of software or anything else - to play a DVD-Rom off of a CD-Rom drive?

Thank you in advance for any help you can give.

 

[hollett]

Sorry, but a CD and DVD use completly diffrent lasers.

The light from a DVD laser has a wavelength of 640 nanometers where the light from a CD laser is 780 nanometers.

You will have to buy a DVD drive or try and return the game.

 

[guynamedsean]

*cry* Ok, thank you - good to know where I stand, then.

Looks like I'm waiting until the next pay check. EB won't take returns once they're opened, and I sadly didn't realize the issue until the disc was spinning uselessly in the drive.