Playstation Isos

[Cream Soda]

I jsut tried downloading some isos and playing with a playstation emulator, but it was really choppy and laggy on my PC. Is there any way to burn the Iso files to a CD and just play them on my modded playstation?

If so, do I just burn it regularly or is there something special I have to do to get it to work?
Castlevania has a .bin and a .cue on the iso i downloaded, would I put both of those onto the CD? ect ect.

[Kohan]

If your PSX is modded, you shouldn't need to do anything special. Simply burn the image to a disc -- Alcohol 120% is the preferred program for this -- and pop it in. As for which file you load, just "Open" the CUE, and Alcohol will know what to do. You'll only need to click another button to confirm the burning process.

Wizzdome's Guide to Burning and Playing PSX Backup (iso's) on an unmodded console

[Cream Soda]

Would you happen to knowany other programs? I don't think alcohol 120 is free.

[Kohan]

burnatonce

If you have any problems, go into its options and uncheck "Use Raw Driver."

[Cream Soda]

Got this trying to write castlevania ; ;
ERROR: D:/Roms/Emulators/Playstation/Iso/Castlevania/Castlevanina - SOTN.cue:4: Illegal token: R
D:/Roms/Emulators/Playstation/Iso/Castlevania/Castlevanina - SOTN.cue:4: syntax error at "EOF" missing TrackDef

[Kohan]

Oh, my fault. I didn't realize you're burning a BIN, as burnatonce doesn't load those.

Use this to convert it to ISO: CDBurnerXP: Features

Then try to burn it with burnatonce (or you can just try CDBurnerXP if you want).

[Cream Soda]

Alright, I'll give it a shot, ty.

[Cream Soda]

Bleh, didn't work for me. Got past the white loading screen and into the black one but didn't go any further than that. Are you sure theres no special setting I have to use?

edit: not loading up on this emulator either.

[Kohan]

Did you try burning the ISO with burnatonce, or the CUE with CDBurnerXP, or both?

I have a modded PS2 and use Alcohol 120%, and I don't change any settings. Usually, I simply load up the CUE and burn away. However, I have burned ISOs in Nero before and they also function normally.

Sometimes people will recommend burning at a slower speed, but this is one of those strong internet rumors that truthfully does not benefit you at all. If you see that advice around, don't follow it. If your media is designed to handle higher speeds, and your drive was manufactured in the last three years or so, you have no reason to burn slower -- you may even cause more problems rather than less by doing so.

As for how to fix this issue in particular, I'm not sure why the image isn't working. My only recommendation would be to get Alcohol 120% by any means possible, as that's basically the game burner's application of choice. I'm sorry I don't have any other suggestions.

EDIT: Oh, and if you do get Alcohol 120% and it still doesn't work, you may want to look up information on your mod chip and see if it's not compatible with the game.

[Cream Soda]

I tried converting it and unfortunately, that was my last blank CDR. I have some CD-RW's, but for some reason my PC won't erase them. It'll go through the process, say the disc was erased but leaves all the data on there. Any suggestions?

[Kohan]

Unfortunately, you'll have to wait till you get more CD-Rs. PlayStations will not read CD-RWs.

[Cream Soda]

My friend just suggested getting a virtual drive and mounting the iso, then just doing a copy disc as if i just had the actual game in a diff drive and was just making a duplicate. How do you think that'd work?

[Kohan]

As an ISO is an ISO (or a BIN a BIN), I'm not sure why he made that suggestion. The data is the same either way, and if you're not familiar with virtual drive software (e.g., Daemon Tools), you may not want to get into using them. Even after un-installation, they can leave things behind in your registry that will perpetually load an unused ghost drive on Windows boot, amongst other things.

I still recommend Alcohol 120%, but if you want to try Daemon, here's a link: - THE DAEMONS HOME

[orinthia]

IMGBurn is another decent, free cd burning app. Though none of this will work if your ps1 is not modded or uses a parallel port dongle cheat device with a little spring (assuming you have an older model ps1) or a boot cd.

You could actually force an older ps1 to work without such devices (though with the spring to hold the little button down to trick the ps1 into thinking the lid is closed) but it takes some tricky timing swapping out a spinning disk... not recommended but I was able to do this while playing through a copy of chrono cross since you have to swap disks for certain endings....


My system from 2001 can play ps1 games decently however. Not on max resolutions and max settings mind you but certainly a few notches above ps1 itself. You must have a fairly old system if it can't emulate ps1 games with some consistency... or possibly it's not set up correctly. Could also be a bad iso download. Bunch of things to check.

[Pikarya]

I use DiscJuggler, specifically since it works so perfectly damn good with Dreamcast rips. But it does work with any PSX/etc. games.

[Cream Soda]

My mod chip wasn't the disk or game sharkish device, its an internal one rather than an external. Just checked the iso, and yea it didn't work (now its giving me no .cue error). When I converted it from .bin to an iso, i guess the cue got lost somewhere? because it worked perfectly as .bin. How would i go about getting both on the disk? just pick them separately and burn?

[Norellicus]

cue/bin files are usually together, not two different methods. Cue file has the cue sheet for the data tracks, bin file has the actual data to be written.

I've never not seen a cue without a bin, and vice versa.

[Kohan]

You should be able to load the CUE file and convert the entire thing into an ISO from there.

It is definitely better to use a program that burns it in its original state, though.

[Cream Soda]

Finally got it to work. Got a cracked version of Alcohol online. The game runs at fast speeds but the track seems to skip (though not majorly). I'm not sure if its the game itself, my dusty ass old playstation, or that particular iso. I'll try another one in a bit. Thanks again for all the help guys.