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Defiance
July 8th, 2001, 21:55
Does EPSXE currently have any known plugins that support VirtualDrive? If so, where can I find them. Of course, this is for backup purposes only. ;)
Badaro
July 8th, 2001, 22:32
Originally posted by Defiance
Does EPSXE currently have any known plugins that support VirtualDrive? If so, where can I find them. Of course, this is for backup purposes only. ;)

Err, what is VirtualDrive? :-)

[]s Badaro
Defiance
July 8th, 2001, 23:17
Lol... sheesh... some people :p

Think of it as CD burning to your HDD. VirtualDrive emulates a CD-ROM drive on your computer (E:, F:, etc.) and allows you to make copies of CD's to your HDD (*.vcd files). Then you can load and un-load these *.vcd files (through virtual drive manager) to your Virtual CD-ROM drive... the general point is that you never have to keep CD-ROMS around anymore... Plus all data transfers at the rate of a 100x CD-ROM drive... two big pluses for emulation... except that it won't work... :(
SimonMallion
July 9th, 2001, 14:22
Use Daemon's Tools or even use the RUN ISO option in ePSXe to run your games as ISO images.
Badaro
July 9th, 2001, 20:11
Originally posted by Defiance
Lol... sheesh... some people :p

Think of it as CD burning to your HDD. VirtualDrive emulates a CD-ROM drive on your computer (E:, F:, etc.) and allows you to make copies of CD's to your HDD (*.vcd files). Then you can load and un-load these *.vcd files (through virtual drive manager) to your Virtual CD-ROM drive... the general point is that you never have to keep CD-ROMS around anymore... Plus all data transfers at the rate of a 100x CD-ROM drive... two big pluses for emulation... except that it won't work... :(

If it creates a fake CD-Rom then you shouldn't have a problem with the internal plugins. I use a similar tool (Daemon Tools (http://www.daemon-tools.com)), and I have no problems with these.

[]s Badaro
Ben
July 9th, 2001, 21:45
I haven't used Virtual CD in years!

The only advantage I know of that it'd have over Daemon-Tools nowadays is its ability to use Compressed Images! So for example Vagrant Story (which compresses well) would take up about 150Mb instead of 700 :)

But with the size of todays Hard Drives it probably isn't really needed!

Give Daemon Tools (http://www.daemon-tools.com) a go! If you dont have problems with it then it might be Virtual CD's way of handling the drives!

Bearing in mind you'll need to create the images with something like IsoBuster (www.isobuster.com) again, so that Daemon-Tools can read them!
Adair
July 10th, 2001, 05:35
I would be interested to know if a compressed ISO would work with ePSXe. I really doubt it, but I have been wrong before(once;) ).
fanjun99
July 10th, 2001, 15:37
you guys don't know VD very much, VD can not read any PSX CD, which means VD are only good for computer game and softwares, and cdrwin are only good for PSX game.
Ben
July 10th, 2001, 20:59
Originally posted by fanjun99
you guys don't know VD very much, VD can not read any PSX CD, which means VD are only good for computer game and softwares, and cdrwin are only good for PSX game.

Well the last time I used Virtual Drive was before the PSX even existed, so its not surprising that I wouldn't know whether it'd support PlayStation CDs or not!