command for running CD?

[soren121]

hello

I'm using a multi-emu frontend (QuickPlay), and I was wondering if anybody knew the command-line command for running from a CD. The readme talks about running an image, but not a CD. I;m using Alcohol 52% to use my Spyro 3 .mdf I downloaded with uTorrent. I tried converting it to an iso or a bin, but I get read errors. Help?

[stranger90]

soren121 said:

I;m using Alcohol 52% to use my Spyro 3 .mdf I downloaded with uTorrent

You never read "Forum Rules", it says "Illegal sharing of copyright material will not be tolerated!"

[patrickp]

Besides which, the probable reason you're getting read errors is because the image is faulty. Quite apart from being illegal, downloading images is a good way of sourcing naff ones. New and sealed original Playstation games are generally so easy and cheap to come by now, except for a few sought-after rarities, that it isn't worth the hassle of winding up with a collection of naff images. Worse than that, you often don't find out your image is faulty until you're 3/4 of the way through a game. Most images you find online have probably been ripped by some bozo who doesn't care how good the images are; he (she/it) just wants the egoboo of posting lots of games.

Buy the game and rip it with a good ripper (Alcohol should do fine) making sure you use a drive that reads well, and not too fast a speed. That;'s the only way to make reasonably sure you've got a good image. Or just play it from the disc. Oddly enough, although many emulators definitely perform better reading from an image than a disc, pSX seems to do very well on this.

You don't give a region or a game ID for your image, but bear in mind that many of the Spyro games are copy or mod protected. That means that particular care has to be taken to rip a good image from it. It's _really_ likely the bozo who's posting games is going to bother, isn't it?

And, of course, if you'd read the FAQ, you'd know that the -? switch will get you a list of commands.

[TheCloudOfSmoke]

I don't know how you could have missed the global announcement on the top of the page, soren121, but the rules are the rules. Topic closed.