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What do I do with a .mdf file?

Discussion in 'Technical Help' started by altaccount_fake, Feb 28, 2008.

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  1. altaccount_fake

    altaccount_fake Member

    I finally got XenoGears disk one to download, but I can't get it to run. I extracted the contents of the .rar file, and all that's in it is a .mdf file and a small .mds file, neither of which is recognized by ePSXe. The .mdf file seems to be large enough to be the game, but I can't do anything with it...
     
    altaccount_fake, Feb 28, 2008
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  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    you need alcohol 120%, and you mount the .mds (mds is like .cue for cue/bin) onto a 'virtual CD drive' which makes your computer think the CD (actually the mdf file) is a real CD in a real CD drive. Then you configure the CDROM plugin on ePSXe to point to the 'virtual' CD drive, and use the 'run CD' command in ePSXe
     
    Loonylion, Feb 28, 2008
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  3. kamage

    kamage Well-Known Member

    Don't you mount those things by using things like Nero?

    oh, and that last post sounded funny, mainly because when you hear Alchohol and Mount in the same sentence... ;D
     
    kamage, Feb 28, 2008
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  4. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    nero is a CD burning application, and it has it's own CD drive emulator, but that can only handle .iso and .nrg (nero's native format). .mdf is alcohol's native format so you use alcohol (120% or 53%) for .mdf images.
     
    Loonylion, Feb 28, 2008
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  5. altaccount_fake

    altaccount_fake Member

    Is there any way to use that program (or any other) to convert the file to a more easily usable format? Being a trial program, this thing will probably expire on me at some point...
     
    altaccount_fake, Feb 28, 2008
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  6. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    nope, converting images rarely works. What you could do is mount it, then use the 'copy CD' function in your burning program to create an image of the mounted CD.
     
    Loonylion, Feb 28, 2008
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