Got my Pi built, up and running with my PS3 controller and a bunch of NES/SNES/N64/Megadrive games and now starting to add in PSX. No luck with MAME/PCEmulation stuff yet. So I had a bunch of PSX ISO's. Unzip and of course, none are ISO files. Some are.bin only, some.bin/.cue, a few were.bin.ecm, which when expanded were.bin or.bin/.cue, and a few have a single.cue file and two.bin (like part 1 and 2). As a test I took one and resaved as an ISO but when I tried to play it it didn't work. So, wondering, what do you guys do?
MediEvil II, or MediEvil 2 in its PAL release, is the follow-up to the original PlayStation release MediEvil. Medievil II ISO. [PSX] Spyro 2 - Gateway to.
Do you convert everything to single file ISO? I read another thread about renaming the.bin file to lose the extension, which I don't think would work for the files that have no.cue. Basically looking for an easy way to make these work and look nice and organized. Making pbp is probably the cleanest solution, but by the time I learned about that I had a lot of psx roms already. Maybe I'll eventually convert them but that'll take time and it just adds another step to my cataloging.
I just have all my roms on an external drive and obviously each set of roms goes into the corresponding console folder, but for the psx folder I just keep the bin+cue files for a game in a folder with the game's name. For PSX games you may end up with a WHOLE LOT OF TRACK FILES like for Tomb Raider, or random japanese games. I keep those in a folder and transfer the folder onto the pi to keep the ES list organized.
Also if you go to the 20 minute mark on this video it will show you were you can tell emulation station to not show cue files so the bin file will only show up in your games list on the pi. You can easily make folders for each of your games with multiple files and in your gamelist.xml set up a tag instead of a tag.
This will allow you to add all of your meta data and a box art to the folder. Then you just go in the folder and launch whichever file you need to.
ESPECIALLY useful for Amiga, C64 and any other disk-based system. Gamelist.xml:./Chrono Cross Chrono Cross./images/Chrono Cross.jpg That should take care of things without any converting on your part. Said in: Turn them all into.pbp files. The filesize of each will be shrunk This worked great, even for the multi.bin files. Made the.pbp files and dropped them to the PSX folder and tested a couple last night without issues. Though, just before starting there is a very small message in the corner that said 'no BIOS was found, expect issues' or something similar.
The BIOS stuff still eludes me. I've been to and I see some files listed, not sure what I need or if can copy all of them over, which if that simple, why not be part of the img file. Said in: said in: Turn them all into.pbp files. The filesize of each will be shrunk This worked great, even for the multi.bin files. Made the.pbp files and dropped them to the PSX folder and tested a couple last night without issues. Though, just before starting there is a very small message in the corner that said 'no BIOS was found, expect issues' or something similar.
The BIOS stuff still eludes me. I've been to and I see some files listed, not sure what I need or if can copy all of them over, it says what you need and where to put it. Which if that simple, why not be part of the img file. For the same reason games are not. BIOS dumps are copyrighted material that should not be distributed.