File Format Question.

[yerlanthien]

Ok, I understand the need for .bin/cue cdz etc.

However out of pure curiosity (plus I got bored). Wondering why mounting a .mdf or some other format image to a drive why it refuses to boot past the playstation logo? Just missing extra information that's in the .bin, or does it still turn out to be just a file difference (.mdf compared to .bin in this case) problem?

Dunno been botherin the hell outta me, been trying to figure out why it won't boot off a mounted image. (yes i do own the games and it works off the cds)

[pSX Author]

Mounting it how? If you use something like daemon tools it should work. Currently pSX only supports .cue/bin (and .cdz which is a compressed form of .cue/bin).

[yerlanthien]

Yeah I'm usin daemon to mount it to a drive, the .bin of the image works fine, the .mdf refuses to boot past the PSX logo. I dunno what the heck to even think.

[pSX Author]

So you are saying that mounting the .bin file with daemon tools works? If so I would guess that the .mdf file is corrupt, or incorrect in some way... If you are using daemon tools pSX doesn't even know which format of file you are using - daemon tools emulates a cd drive... as far as pSX is concerned it is reading off a real CD drive.

[yerlanthien]

well figured it out, for some odd reason (never had to do this with any other PSX .mdf) I had to emulate the protection options in Daemon and it runs now, forgot those emulation options in Daemon were even there.

[gilgamesh]

It would be nice if psx emulator could read from mdf and mds directly .

[Ultima]

More image format support will likely be added in the future...