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ISO maker.

Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
edited September 2011 in Chit chat
I want to start ripping my old PS1 games into ISO to play on an emulator. HDD space isn't an issue as I have loads of spare room and I've found that most PS1 games are not massivly large files anyway. I know I can just use the original cd's and play them from those, but I don't really fancy the idea of my laptop's dvd drive spinning for an hour or so at a time (I'd like to play through Tomb Raider again for example and that's not really a "dip in and out" kind of game) and as I already have the originals and I don't use torrents, I'd like to make my own ISO's, but I've no idea what to use or how to do it.

I tried with NERO once, but I couldn't get the emulator to recognise the files and I once had a PC engine emulator that had a built in ISO making program, but that was all in Japaniese so I couldn't understand it at all!

Does anyone make their own ISO's and what do you use and how does it work?
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  • VampyreVampyre
    edited September 2011
    MagicISO?
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  • STeaMSTeaM
    edited September 2011
    Will Alcohol not do this?
  • richlrichl
    edited September 2011
    ImgBurn. Great program to have and it's free.

    Choose "Create image file from disc" and that's pretty much it. I think in most cases it will produce a CUE+BIN instead of an ISO due to there being multiple tracks on most discs. I think you can only have an ISO image if there's just the one track.

    Anyway, I've used it before for emulation and the disc images have worked fine.
  • alanspecalanspec
    edited September 2011
    I'd highly recommend http://www.acetoneteam.org/viewpage.php?page_id=7 acetone iso.
    It doesn't have a windows version as far as I know.....

    ...But - It has an option to rip a PS1 game - and it generally works perfectly. Some games like Wipeout2097 that have the audio on the CD as CD audio suffer - but you can turn the music down in the options of the game so the static noise disappears. Overall it works a treat ;)
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  • BiNMaNBiNMaN
    edited September 2011
    clone cd?
  • WhizzBangWhizzBang
    edited September 2011
    One thing I remember from doing this years ago is do not allow any error correction. The ripper I was using (either Nero or Alcohol) had some error correction process by default that could be disabled. PS1 discs deliberately have these errors for some reason and they need to be there if you are playing the disc on a chipped machine, so it may also be true with emulation.
  • big_plumsbig_plums
    edited September 2011
    I use InfraRecorder to make the ISO's and VirtualCloneDrive to mount them. If you need a hand, I'd be happy to help.
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited September 2011
    Thanks for the advice as usual. I've not had time to look at these yet, but I hope to have time tomorrow :)
  • HerculesHercules
    edited September 2011
    Bermondsey Bob wrote: »
    Thanks for the advice as usual. I've not had time to look at these yet, but I hope to have time tomorrow :)

    Make sure that once you have ripped your PSX disc to an ISO, that you compress it to save space. You can do this by using PocketISO - a freeware tool which helps you to compress your images and clean them up (i.e. remove videofiles).

    I've used PocketISO many times to compress PSX ISO's to save some space (handy if you want to save some storage space on your hard disk). In my case, I use PocketISO to compress Playstation 1 ISO's when copying them onto my MicroSD card as I use FPSe (which is a Playstation emulator on my HTC Desire phone), and editing video cut scenes in a game to reduce the size helps to fit more ISO's on a single MicroSD card :)
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited September 2011
    big_plums wrote: »
    I use InfraRecorder to make the ISO's and VirtualCloneDrive to mount them. If you need a hand, I'd be happy to help.

    I've downloaded that and am giving it a go now. I'm trying it with my copy of Sonic CD at the moment as I've not got any PS1 games to hand at the moment!
    WhizzBang wrote: »
    One thing I remember from doing this years ago is do not allow any error correction. The ripper I was using (either Nero or Alcohol) had some error correction process by default that could be disabled. PS1 discs deliberately have these errors for some reason and they need to be there if you are playing the disc on a chipped machine, so it may also be true with emulation.

    As I say, I'm trying Sonic CD as I type. I tried twice, but it stopped at the same point as it had a sector that it couldn't corrwct. I've dissabled that option and it's working fine now, but has got to the same point and is just skipping the errors. I'll report back later if it works!

    Fingers crossed ;-)
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited September 2011
    richl wrote: »
    ImgBurn. Great program to have and it's free.

    Choose "Create image file from disc" and that's pretty much it. I think in most cases it will produce a CUE+BIN instead of an ISO due to there being multiple tracks on most discs. I think you can only have an ISO image if there's just the one track.

    Anyway, I've used it before for emulation and the disc images have worked fine.

    Right, I gave up with that other ISO program as it was taking forever and I didn't think it was going to work anyway, so I downloaded this one.

    It made my ISO of Sonic CD pretty quickly (it produced a .BIN file rather than an ISO) and I've got it to load with the KEGA emulator. But, there is no music! Do I need to rip the music tracks seperatly? I would have thought that everything would have been ripped in one go? (I'm very new to this and have never really used ISO's before. Only one 3DO image, but that emulator was rubbish so I delelted it all, but that had music while playing)

    I'm going to try a PS1 disc now and see what happens ;-)
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited September 2011
    Nope! As usual, something that seems to work for every bugger else, is refusing to work for me! I've literally tried half a dozen ISO making programs with varying degrees of failure. Most get to about 70% through making the image before sailing to be able to read a sector. Some only make it as far as 20%. One wouldn't even recognise that I had a CD drive, let alone the dic itself.

    And yes, I did try 3 different games and not just the one disc.

    I'm going to bed :evil:
  • JACK98JACK98
    edited September 2011
    Bermondsey Bob wrote: »
    But, there is no music! Do I need to rip the music tracks separately?

    If your sonic cd is a genuine copy with music in wav files,copy the music files into the iso folder,then generate the cue file with this app,music should work then-
    http://www.racketboy.com/downloads/sega-cue-maker.htm

    then save cue in the same folder.

    if the files are mp3 format,convert to wav and do the steps above

    i heard ps1 discs have a wobble on them,discussed here-
    http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32809

    daemon tools is a good iso mounter-
    http://www.daemon-tools.cc/eng/products/dtLite
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