A friend of mine is a (snobbish) Mac owner, and he just bought the swap disc thingy to use backups on his unmodded PS2.

He started downloading games, but it looks like he cannot burn dvd images with Toast or the Roxio app. The images are in mds+iso or mds+mdf format, and of course there is no Alcohol 120% for his cum-colored Mac. I suppose there is extra info that the mac applications just cannot burn, just like it happened with psx cds... is that the case?

What should he use to burn that stuff? Does anybody know of MacOSX apps that can burn PS2 images, or convert them to a format understood by Toast or Roxio? I'm thinking about Roushi here, but any help from mac-savvy people is ok, as long as their legs are as sexy.

Then charge his ass 3 times the cost, apparently he doesn't mind paying it. :-P


Gives us a kiss precious.

Apparently those files are just ISOs, and you just need to rename them. I also heard that Firestarter is good at handling various types of CD image formats.

There may be some linux commandline utilities to convert between the various formats, some of them are just shell scripts and don't require any compilation.

I don't know why they don't just use BIN/CUE or ISO for everything.

> Apparently those files are just ISOs, and you just need to rename them. I also
> heard that Firestarter is good at handling various types of CD image formats.
>
> There may be some linux commandline utilities to convert between the various
> formats, some of them are just shell scripts and don't require any compilation.
>
> I don't know why they don't just use BIN/CUE or ISO for everything.

MDS is an A120 proprietary version of CUE. I haven't played around with it too much, since I try to avoid it (CUE/BIN, too; don't like two-file disk images), but it seems to be a binary type file instead of the plaintext that CUE uses. MDF can be an ISO, if there's no other info saved in it. Start playing around with stuff like "data precision measurement" or subchannel data and all bets are off.