To use it, you need to download the source and compile (no binary love for Mac OS X users). One alternative I found was an improved version of dd called dcfldd, a tool by Nick Harbour when he worked at the Department of Defense’s Computer Forensic Laboratory (DCFL). After going through 100 or so Playstation 1 games and trying to backup all of them using dd, I started looking for a better way.
Sometimes it has an error during the imaging process and just stops prematurely without an explanation. One of the shortcomings of dd is that it doesn’t provide any kind of progress information while it is working, and doesn’t integrity check the resulting output. In the last post, I mentioned the use of a disk imaging command called dd. Then rip the disc and convert its TOC to a CUE with these two commands: $ cdrdao read-cd -datafile image.bin -driver generic-mmc:0x20000 -read-raw image.toc Observe which drive is the disc drive with the first command, and use that path in the second command: $ diskutil list
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If you have MacPorts, the command is as follows: $ sudo port install cdrdaoīacking up a PS1 disc in cuesheet format, using cdrdaoįind and unmount the disc filesystem. Note that your binary image file has to be named consistently with what is in each CUE file.įirst, you need to install the “cdrdao” package from either MacPorts (recommended), Fink, or from source. It would fail with weird errors unless I provided the game in cuesheet format.Īlmost any cuesheet file can be found at . In fact, you can just download every cuesheet for a given system all at once, which is nice. Maybe it will preclude you from having to create your own, if you ripped your games as ISO. I realized the need for cuesheet format when I tried to use the Mednafen emulator to play a Playstation 1 game I backed up in ISO format. Most 16-bit era CD games were this kind of disc, and sometimes it was used in the early games of the PS1/Saturn generation. You can rip all of their data, but without metadata to indicate the track boundaries, it seems that multi-track disc images can’t be properly handled (?). I mentioned in my first post in this series that many old games use “mixed-mode discs” (audio and data as separate tracks). Well there’s actually a case where cdrdao is needed, and that is when your emulator wants game images in the “ cuesheet” format (a pair of files with the file extensions. In a previous post, I mentioned that two command-line utilities for making optical disc images on Mac OS X were dd and cdrdao, but I recommended dd because it was simpler to use. Preserving CD and DVD-based Console Games (Pt. 2) Preserving CD and DVD-based Console Games
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