Using Daemon Tools and games

**mellow** · 28-09-2009, 09:40 AM

New thing with the kids. They ( the older kids) are downloading games using torrents now. Some of these games are of a different type of file format, where you have to use Daemon tools in order to play them. Anyways now all the younger kids like my son have copies of them, either on DVDs or memory sticks, and being Dad I have to figure out how this is suppose to work. I downloaded Daemon Tools Lite, read the stuff, and I am now looking for Help.

**lom** · 28-09-2009, 11:16 AM

Your son is downloading the games a CD images, ie a bit-for-bit copy of an original CD. The image does not only contain the game program - it has also contains the CD file system with directory and file structures.

This image file can be directly burned to a CD/DVD by bit-for-bit burning.

Daemon tools creates a virtual CD drive on your computer and can mount an image file in that virtual drive.
Windows will see this as a physical CD drive with a physical CD being present.

**mellow** · 28-09-2009, 12:07 PM

^ How do you open these files ? When I mount the file it don't work. I must somehow open them first, I would think.

**baldrick** · 28-09-2009, 12:24 PM

daemon tools allows you to create a virtual cd drive in which you can mount a cd/dvd image - normally an ISO file - and then use the drive as if it was a physical drive with a dvd/cd in it.

you can create ISOs from a dvd/cd , and also burn ISOs to dvd/cd with a free program called imgburn.

you might want to get a program called 7zip to replace winzip if you need to extract the ISO image from compressed files they have downloaded via bittorrent.

you should be able to find the information about what to do for the downloaded content in a file with the torrent with a .nfo file type , just open with notepad.

ISO is probably the most common cd/dvd image type , but there are various others.

**mellow** · 28-09-2009, 01:02 PM

Will check out 7zip, thanks for info.

**mellow** · 30-09-2009, 07:11 AM

Haven't been able to do it yet. Guess I will have the older kids show me how this weekend.

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