Strange file (Xenogears for PSX)

First of all I'd like to say a MASSIVE thank you to all people involved in creating the tools required to emulate some of my favourite games that bring back so much nostalgia and of course the people responsible for this Emulation Paradise ;)

Now onto a problem I've had, I downloaded Xenogears from this site, however when I download the file and unzip it using either 7Z or WinRar it comes out as an MDF which is a database file, i've tried renaming the extension to .iso and to .bin to play on the ePSXe emulator I have but no luck.

Thank you in advance for any help or advice given.

There are probably better ways to do it, but my solution is to download and install daemon tools. This installs a virtual disk drive on your system. You can open daemon tools from system tray and mount an image file to the virtual drive. choose the mdf file (mdf files are compatible with daemon tools) and then in your playstation emulator run the disk from the virtual drive.

Thanks for the speedy reply, I use Magic Disk which also worked but you were very helpful, thank you!

mdf+mds files are alcohol burning rom software format

just convert those to bin+cue isobuster can do that with ease and you do not need to pay for it the free use functions are enough for this (P.S. most other direct converting software will corrupt PSX CD images, this is one of the few that does not)

http://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?40611 is a guide for just doing that (open via the mds file only)

Ah I see, I was thinking MDF and LDF because that's what I work with! Thanks for letting me know!

Sorry but that doesn't seem to work, when I try to extract the MDS it just says that it needs the full version of the software to be able to do this, it's version 3.5 so it's very diferent to what's in that guide.

Edit: Never mind, figured out I was clicking on the wrong thing...whoops!

If you dont wanna deal with the hassle of converting you can grab a proper dump (bin+cue) of Xenogears here,

http://www.epforums.org/showthread.p...U-%28Redump%29

Perfect, thank you very much!