View source for Creating images of PSX games using Linux

This pages describes a rather simple way for creating images for usage with an emulator like [[PSX4Pandora]]. Everything listed here does require the program ''cdrdao'' which is often already installed in common Linux distributions once some burner software is installed.

== Single command ==
This command creates a dump of your disc. It does also extract subchannel data which is required for the copy protection of some of the games to work correctly. It does save the image in .bin format and also does create a .cue file.

Assuming that your optical drive is called ''/dev/sr0'' and you want to name the image ''GAME_NAME'', this is the command you can use to create the image in the current dir:
 cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --read-subchan rw_raw --datafile GAME_NAME.bin --device /dev/sr0 --driver generic-mmc-raw GAME_NAME.cue
Of course you have to adjust the parameters according to your desires and your system setup.

== Useful script ==
Following is a script doing some useful stuff. It does by default rip the current disc in your drive ''/dev/sr0'' into the folder ''~/psxrip/'' with the name you give as parameter. If the folder does not exist, it is created. It does extract subchannel data by default, saves the image as ''.bin'' and creates a ''.cue''.

You can also copy the following code into a text file and make it executable. To do so, lets assume you named the text file ''psxrip'', then run ''chmod +x psxrip''. For usage information just type ''./psxrip --help''. The script does check if you got the required program installed, if you provided the parameters and all the likes. If you do something that you are not supposed to do, it will print an error message as well as some (hopefully) helpful output.

Here is the script:
 #!/bin/bash
 #
 #  This is a script to create a .bin image with corresponding .cue out of your
 #  PSX game discs as backup and/or for usage with emulators.
 #
 #  Run-time requirements: cdrdao
 #
 #  This script is partly based upon the "wesnoth-optipng" script from the
 #  Battle for Wesnoth team.
 #
 #  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 #  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or,
 #  at your option any later version. This program is distributed in the
 #  hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
 
 PSXDIR=$HOME/psxrip
 DRIVE=/dev/sr0
 
 report_absent_tool()
 {
 	echo "$1 is not present in PATH. $(basename ${0}) requires it in order to work properly."
 	if [ -n "$2" ]; then
 		echo "You can obtain $1 at <${2}>."
 	fi
 	exit -1
 }
 
 print_help()
 {
 cat << EOSTREAM
 Script for ripping PSX game discs into .bin files with corresponding .cue files.
 
 Usage:
   $(basename ${0}) [{--outputdir} <value>] [{--drive} <value>] [{--no-subchan] [{--help|-h}] [filename]
 
 The parameter [filename] is mandatory. Without it, the script will abort. Plain
 spaces in the filename are prohibited!
 
 Available switches:
   --drive       Define the device to be used. If this parameter is not
                 provided, /dev/sr0 will be used.
 
   --help / -h   Displays this help text.
 
   --no-subchan  Don't extract subchannel data. Subchannel data might be
                 required for some PSX copy protection though it *could* create
                 problems. Retry with this parameter set if any problems occur
                 when trying to use the resulting image.
 
   --outputdir   Define the folder in which the resulting image should be saved.
                 If the folder does not exist, it will be created. If no
                 --outputdir parameter is given, the folder ~/psxrip will be
                 used.
 
 This tool requires cdrdao (http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/) to be installed and
 available in PATH.
 EOSTREAM
 }
 
 # go through provided parameters
 while [ "${1}" != "" ]; do
 	if [ "${1}" = "--drive" ]; then
 		DRIVE=$2
 		shift 2
 	elif [ "${1}" = "--outputdir" ]; then
 		PSXDIR=$2
 		shift 2
 	elif [ "${1}" = "--nosubchan" ]; then
 		NOSUBCHAN="true"
 		shift 2
 	elif [ "${1}" = "--help" ] || [ "${1}" = "-h" ]; then
 		print_help
 		exit 0
 	elif [ "${2}" != "" ] ; then
 		echo "ERROR: Inval id usage. Displaying help:"
 		echo ""
 		print_help
 		exit -1
 	else
 		IMAGENAME=$1
 		shift
 	fi
 done
 
 # check for required dependencies
 which cdrdao &> /dev/null ||
 	report_absent_tool cdrdao 'http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/'
 
 # output recognized parameters
 echo "Program "$(basename ${0})" called. The following parameters will be used for"
 echo "creating an image of a PSX disc:"
 echo "Folder for saving images: "$PSXDIR
 echo "Drive used for reading the image: "$DRIVE
 echo "Resulting filenames: "$PSXDIR"/"$IMAGENAME"[.bin|.cue]"
 if [ "$NOSUBCHAN" = "true" ]; then
 	echo "Not extracting subchan data."
 else
 	echo "Extracting subchan data."
 fi
 echo ""
 
 # check if imagename is defined
 if [ "$IMAGENAME" = "" ]; then
 	echo "ERROR: Invalid usage. Found no name for resulting image. Displaying help:"
 	echo ""
 	print_help
 	exit -1
 fi
 
 # create dir for resulting image if it does not exist yet
 if ! [ -d "$PSXDIR" ]; then
 	echo "outputdir not found, creating folder: "$PSXDIR
 	echo ""
 	mkdir -p $PSXDIR
 fi
 
 echo "starting ripping the disc"
 echo ""
 # final commandline for reading the disc and creating the image
 if [ "$NOSUBCHAN" = "true" ]; then
 	cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --datafile $PSXDIR/$IMAGENAME.bin --device $DRIVE --driver generic-mmc-raw $PSXDIR/$IMAGENAME.cue
 else
 	cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --read-subchan rw_raw --datafile $PSXDIR/$IMAGENAME.bin --device $DRIVE --driver generic-mmc-raw $PSXDIR/$IMAGENAME.cue
 fi

== Compressing the images ==
If you want to compress the images you can try to use the program ''PocketISO'' via wine. There seems to be no native program doing this task in a nice way.

[[Category:Useful_Tools]]