ci2own Posted January 25, 2017 Posted January 25, 2017 I'm planning to buy a Virtual Drive program to mount CD-ROM/DVD-ROM based games to use with HyperSpin and RocketLauncher. I'm using Windows 10 and i would like to know if someone can recommend me the best deal. I searched in this page where explains but is not cleart at all what is best for Windows 10: http://www.rlauncher.com/wiki/index.php?title=Virtual_Drives Any help would be appreciated!
ci2own Posted January 25, 2017 Author Posted January 25, 2017 No need to buy one, Daemon Tools Lite is free and works just fine. Although there's not much of a reason to use a virtual drive in general now that mednafen implemented Saturn emulation.And for PS/PS2 etc?Enviado desde mi iPhone utilizando Tapatalk Pro
ci2own Posted January 25, 2017 Author Posted January 25, 2017 3 minutes ago, agent47 said: PCSX2 doesn't require mounting nor do any of the PSX emulators that I'm aware of. I though yes. I will give a chance at PCSX2 Emu. Thanks!
Avar Posted January 25, 2017 Posted January 25, 2017 Yes, I believe the only reason to use a virtual drive at all anymore is for a very select few emulators, which aren't even considered the best choices anymore for their emulated systems. Everyone can natively load disk images now.
THK Posted January 25, 2017 Posted January 25, 2017 Outside of emulation, with Win10, you don't need 3rd party software for mounting images anymore. I always used DTL, then switched to the open source WinCDEmu for a while. But no need anymore. ..........................back with a vengeance........................
Aorin Posted January 25, 2017 Posted January 25, 2017 The only emulator that forced me to use a virtual drive, i.e., Daemon Tools was SSF (Saturn emulator), but it's pretty well emulated via Retroarch (Mednafen Saturn core) that does not require virtual drive and loads the cue sheet directly. The less third party programs you use, the better the results. Aorin
ci2own Posted January 26, 2017 Author Posted January 26, 2017 Nice to know i can avoid using virtual drive! Thanks for all answers!Enviado desde mi iPhone utilizando Tapatalk Pro
Avar Posted January 26, 2017 Posted January 26, 2017 SSF is pretty much the only one these days and unfortunately it does still have value in that it supports up to 12 players, just like a real Saturn, so you can play 10man Bomberman or the 11-12 man homebrews and other party titles.
JackOfOwls Posted January 26, 2017 Posted January 26, 2017 Systems like Sega CD, Sega Saturn, PSP and PS2 DO need virtual drives. Avoid Daemon Tools if possible. Newer versions (which you'll need for Windows 10) don't even support automatic re-mounting of virtual drives after an OS reboot anymore. I recommend Alcohol 120%. Since switching over to this I've had ZERO problems with virtual drives using Hyperspin/RL. With Daemon Tools I'd discover nasty surprises with Sega Saturn & SSF and strange mounting/unmounting errors when I'd update Daemon Tools to just one minor new build.
ci2own Posted January 26, 2017 Author Posted January 26, 2017 Systems like Sega CD, Sega Saturn, PSP and PS2 DO need virtual drives. Avoid Daemon Tools if possible. Newer versions (which you'll need for Windows 10) don't even support automatic re-mounting of virtual drives after an OS reboot anymore. I recommend Alcohol 120%. Since switching over to this I've had ZERO problems with virtual drives using Hyperspin/RL. With Daemon Tools I'd discover nasty surprises with Sega Saturn & SSF and strange mounting/unmounting errors when I'd update Daemon Tools to just one minor new build.So do you recommend Alcohol 120 for those systems? Which version? Latest?Thanks for your response!Enviado desde mi iPhone utilizando Tapatalk Pro
Aorin Posted January 26, 2017 Posted January 26, 2017 6 hours ago, JackOfOwls said: Systems like Sega CD, Sega Saturn, PSP and PS2 DO need virtual drives. Avoid Daemon Tools if possible. Newer versions (which you'll need for Windows 10) don't even support automatic re-mounting of virtual drives after an OS reboot anymore. I recommend Alcohol 120%. Since switching over to this I've had ZERO problems with virtual drives using Hyperspin/RL. With Daemon Tools I'd discover nasty surprises with Sega Saturn & SSF and strange mounting/unmounting errors when I'd update Daemon Tools to just one minor new build. Actually, none of the systems you mentioned needs a virtual drive to work. I use them all without any third party application. Aorin
JackOfOwls Posted January 26, 2017 Posted January 26, 2017 3 hours ago, Aorin said: Actually, none of the systems you mentioned needs a virtual drive to work. I use them all without any third party application. Hmm. You're right. A month ago I couldn't get any of these systems to work under HS/RL without virtual drives installed. Today I disabled all Virtual drives and they work fine without VDs, except for SSF (which I don't use anymore anyway since Mednafen's new Saturn core came out for Retroarch). The only explanation perhaps is that I was using an out-of-date RL that hadn't been updated for many months. Updated RL to the latest and everything works as it should. To ci2own: I guess you don't need VD's after all, but they still can be useful for mounting any ISOs you might have outside of HS/RL.
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