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About ISOs?

Discussion in 'Non-Emulation Help' started by Armed, Sep 22, 2011.

  1. Armed

    Armed Well-Known Member

    Umm, I'm newbie about ISO things so if this is the wrong place to ask then I'm really sorry and I hope then the admin/mod could help to delete this post should it be found inappropriate or such.

    My question is:
    What is ISO? Is it the same type of file as ROMs in which if you burn the ISO in a disc then you can play it in your PSX machine (not emulators)?

    I just gotta ask out of curiousity. ^^a Thank you for your kind help.
     
  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    ISO is the name give to disk image files made from optical discs. In, this context it is essentially roms for disc based systems.
     
  3. Armed

    Armed Well-Known Member

    Oh, I see, so that's what those people are talking about. ^^a Today's technologies are just so.... XD Thank you so much, Loonylion. ^^>
     
  4. ace1o1

    ace1o1 Well-Known Member

    If you have computer games or something like that, you can use a virtual drive to run the ISO.

    I use Virtual Clone Drive. Works very well for me.
     
  5. fabvini

    fabvini Well-Known Member

    I use Daemon Tools Lite.
     
  6. Armed

    Armed Well-Known Member

    @ace101 & fabvini: You mean play computer games on my console instead? ' 'a
     
  7. fabvini

    fabvini Well-Known Member

    a virtual drive is to mount an iso, so if it is a PC game or a program or something like that you can use daemon tools or virtual clone drive. That way you don't need to burn the image to a CD or DVD. You can't play PC games on a console.
     
  8. Fredbox

    Fredbox Well-Known Member

    Other way round.
     
  9. Armed

    Armed Well-Known Member

    @fabvini: Oh yeah, I think I have one of those type of game, the Yu-Gi-Oh. It wasn't installed in my PC instead I can keep it in my flashdrive and I can play it in any PC from that flashdrive. Is that what it is?
     
  10. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    no.

    A virtual cd drive, or cd drive emulator allows you to 'mount' an ISO file, making it appear to the computer that there is a disc in a cd/dvd drive, when in reality its a file on your hard disk.
     
  11. Armed

    Armed Well-Known Member

    @Loonylion: AH-HA! That's as clear as crystal! Thank you so much! ^^/