Creating images of PSX games using Linux - Revision history

Ekianjo at 05:53, 18 November 2013

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Ekianjo at 05:52, 18 November 2013

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Kingu at 12:51, 20 October 2013

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Kingu: added forumthread and repo link

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added forumthread and repo link

Wally at 13:16, 26 March 2013

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CFWhitman: /* From the command line */

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‎From the command line

CFWhitman: /* Useful script */

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‎Useful script

CFWhitman: /* From the command line*/

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‎From the command line

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Maplesugarlover at 15:12, 22 February 2011

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	You have two options to do this kind of operation. Either you use your Pandora directly (by attaching a USB CD-reader to it), or you can do it via the command line in a Linux Desktop environment.		You have two options to do this kind of operation. Either you use your Pandora directly (by attaching a USB CD-reader to it), or you can do it via the command line in a Linux Desktop environment.

		+	== Directly from your Pandora ==
	In order to rip everything directly using your Pandora, see this see [http://pandoralive.info/?p=1089 this tutorial for ripping psx games directly on pandora]. You can also check the associated [http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php/topic/12532-cdrdao-rip-psx-cd-directly-on-the-pandora/ forum thread on the boards]. You can download the appropriate tool, CDRDAO for Pandora, [http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=cdrdao-ptitseb on the repo].		In order to rip everything directly using your Pandora, see this see [http://pandoralive.info/?p=1089 this tutorial for ripping psx games directly on pandora]. You can also check the associated [http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php/topic/12532-cdrdao-rip-psx-cd-directly-on-the-pandora/ forum thread on the boards]. You can download the appropriate tool, CDRDAO for Pandora, [http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=cdrdao-ptitseb on the repo].

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-[http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php/topic/12532-cdrdao-rip-psx-cd-directly-on-the-pandora/ Forumthread]
+You have two options to do this kind of operation. Either you use your Pandora directly (by attaching a USB CD-reader to it), or you can do it via the command line in a Linux Desktop environment.
-See [http://pandoralive.info/?p=1089 this] link for ripping psx games directly on pandora.
+In order to rip everything directly using your Pandora, see this see [http://pandoralive.info/?p=1089 this tutorial for ripping psx games directly on pandora]. You can also check the associated [http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php/topic/12532-cdrdao-rip-psx-cd-directly-on-the-pandora/ forum thread on the boards]. You can download the appropriate tool, CDRDAO for Pandora, [http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=cdrdao-ptitseb on the repo].
-This pages describes a rather simple way for creating images for usage with an emulator like PCSXRearmed.. Everything listed here does require the program ''cdrdao'' which is often already installed in common Linux distributions once some burner software is installed.
+The following describes another method on a Desktop PC.
 == From the command line ==
 This command creates a dump of your disc. It also extracts subchannel data which is required for the copy protection of some of the games to work correctly. It saves the image in .bin format and also creates a .toc file.
 First, you must know what device name to use for you optical drive. If you are not sure what your drive's Linux device name is, then you can run this command to find out:

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 [http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php/topic/12532-cdrdao-rip-psx-cd-directly-on-the-pandora/ Forumthread]
 [http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=cdrdao-ptitseb repo link]
 This pages describes a rather simple way for creating images for usage with an emulator like PCSXRearmed.. Everything listed here does require the program ''cdrdao'' which is often already installed in common Linux distributions once some burner software is installed.

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		+	[http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php/topic/12532-cdrdao-rip-psx-cd-directly-on-the-pandora/ Forumthread]
		+	[http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=cdrdao-ptitseb repo link]
		+
	This pages describes a rather simple way for creating images for usage with an emulator like PCSXRearmed.. Everything listed here does require the program ''cdrdao'' which is often already installed in common Linux distributions once some burner software is installed.		This pages describes a rather simple way for creating images for usage with an emulator like PCSXRearmed.. Everything listed here does require the program ''cdrdao'' which is often already installed in common Linux distributions once some burner software is installed.

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

	== From the command line ==		== From the command line ==

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 == From the command line ==
-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 .toc file.
+This command creates a dump of your disc. It also extracts subchannel data which is required for the copy protection of some of the games to work correctly. It saves the image in .bin format and also creates a .toc file.
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   Cdrdao version 1.2.3 - (C) Andreas Mueller <andreas@daneb.de>
   /dev/sr0 : hp      , DVD RW AD-7581S , 4H73
-The first part of the second line, "/dev/sr0", is the device name of the only optical drive that cdrdao recognizes on this machine. If you have multiple optical drives, they will each show up here. You can distinguish between them by the description following the colon after the device name. The device here is an HP DVD RW Model AD-7581S.
+The first part of the second line, ''/dev/sr0'', is the device name of the only optical drive that cdrdao recognizes on this machine. If you have multiple optical drives, they will each show up here. You can distinguish between them by the description following the colon after the device name. The device here is an HP DVD RW Model AD-7581S.
-Next, make sure that your disc is in the drive but not mounted. Assuming that your optical drive is called "/dev/sr0", to unmount the drive from the command line you can do this:
+Next, make sure that your disc is in the drive but not mounted. Assuming that your optical drive is called ''/dev/sr0'', to unmount the drive from the command line you can do this:
   umount /dev/sr0
 (Of course you should substitute whatever device name you got from previous command.)

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   # 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
+  	cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --datafile $PSXDIR/$IMAGENAME.bin --device $DRIVE --driver generic-mmc-raw $PSXDIR/$IMAGENAME.toc
   else
-  	cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --read-subchan rw_raw --datafile $PSXDIR/$IMAGENAME.bin --device $DRIVE --driver generic-mmc-raw $PSXDIR/$IMAGENAME.cue
+  	cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --read-subchan rw_raw --datafile $PSXDIR/$IMAGENAME.bin --device $DRIVE --driver generic-mmc-raw $PSXDIR/$IMAGENAME.toc
   fi
 == Compressing the images ==

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 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 ==
+== From the command line ==
-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.
+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 .toc 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
+First, you must know what device name to use for you optical drive. If you are not sure what your drive's Linux device name is, then you can run this command to find out:
 Of course you have to adjust the parameters according to your desires and your system setup.
 == Useful script ==

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	If you want to compress the images you can try to use the program [http://www.fpsece.net/ PocketISO] via [http://www.winehq.org wine]. There seems to be no native program doing this task in a nice way.		If you want to compress the images you can try to use the program [http://www.fpsece.net/ PocketISO] via [http://www.winehq.org wine]. There seems to be no native program doing this task in a nice way.

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		+	[[Category:Documentation]]