Getting virtualdrive to work

[Bigby]

I have several CD based systems setup in GameEx, but I can never get the GameEx virtualdrive to work. Instead I use either Damon Tools lite or Alcohol 120%, by using the before/after launch entires in the GameEx wizard.

These are the CD systems in question:

NEX PC-FX (MagicFX):

Launch Before - ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Alcohol Soft\Alcohol 120\AxCmd.exe" F: /M:"[RomPath]\[RomFile]""
Launch After - "C:\Program Files (x86)\Alcohol Soft\Alcohol 120\AxCmd.exe" F: /U

FM Towns Marty (UNZ) & Saturn (SSF)

Launch Before - ""C:\Program Files (x86)\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -mount 0,"[rompath]\[romfile]""
Lauch After - "C:\Program Files (x86)\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -unmount 0

[fRequEnCy]

What have you tried already? Any errors? Are the games simply not mounting? What were the command-lines you tried for these systems? Please give more info!

[Bigby]

It was some time ago since I set these up, so I cannot remember the exact details for why I couldn't get them to work with virtualdrive. I'll try using the virtualdrive in the command line again and report back.

[fRequEnCy]

Sounds good. I'm usually around so we can always meet in the chat room for real-time support as well. Keep us posted.

[Bigby]

Actually, after trying virtualdrive out with both UNZ and SSF emualtors, I found it's mainly a mounting issue with certain cd image formats. CUE/BINs usually mount, but ccd/cue/img/sub and cue/bin's that have multiple bins (redump format) do not mount. I check the log each time, and I can see that the single cue/bin images are mounting, but the others types do not. I guess this was already known?

Anyway, for UNZ, both [-VIRTUALDRIVE-] and [VIRTUALDRIVE]:\ work. For SSF, as all my images are redump format, I couldn't get any to mount.

With MagicFX I sometimes cannot get it to see the mounted images (this is outside of GameEx), so that one I'll have to investigate some more to find out why that is.