Tutorial: How to save space on PS1 games without ripping video or music


vigilante 8 2nd offense is the one im trying, same result as you
 
You might also be able to use ecm to strip the error correction data from the image before you compress it. Never tried it directly in an emulator or mounting the image though, so it might not work. It does make most images much more compressable though.


I use this format for all my PSX images (and any multi-track for that matter).
 
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sorry to bring this thread up, but man this is such a great program I didn't even realize.....


Finally tackled my collection of approximately 50-60 psx games last night. For the ones I hadn't opened yet, instead of breaking the shrinkwrap plastic, I just downloaded the rom. Problem with this is depending on the source will come in like 3-4 different formats.... so I had a collection of CCD, IMG, BIN, ISO etc etc... some had SUB or CUE files... some didn't..... enough to make your OCD go crazy... you know who you are ;)


anyway back to story... not only did it fix the formatting problem, it also puts the file in a folder of the correct and consistant naming convention. So if your collection has lots of codenames for roms like FF7.bin instead of "Final Fantasy VII [disk1of3].pbp" looking at my collection and seeing that makes my OCD purr like a kitten ;)


What it also did was shrank my collection from 30GB down to 20GB.... that's amazing! Also in the process I found all my roms that I can just discard the subchannel data and cue sheets (for the games that I have) that my games work fine without the newly made TOC file which is that subchannel data.


what's even more amazing is this actually fixed a lot of the games I had that wouldn't boot in FPSE on android.... like 4-5.. it told me the cue sheet was invalid and I chose to compress without the cue sheet and boom booted right up instead of hanging at loading screen... so I think that was what the problem was. Every game I listed below works just great in FPSE for android, (minus saga fronteir, I hear sound but no video, might need to re-rip) I don't have my pandora anymore or else I'd check it with that as well.


anyway... check it out... just beautiful

12/15/2011 12:04 AM 522,406,145 Chrono Cross [Disc1of2].PBP


12/15/2011 12:08 AM 507,194,129 Chrono Cross [Disc2of2].PBP


12/15/2011 12:09 AM 508,636,289 Final Fantasy IX [Disc1of4].PBP


12/15/2011 12:11 AM 436,946,721 Final Fantasy IX [Disc2of4].PBP


12/15/2011 12:13 AM 470,270,849 Final Fantasy IX [Disc3of4].PBP


12/15/2011 12:15 AM 474,222,001 Final Fantasy IX [Disc4of4].PBP


12/14/2011 11:35 PM 555,242,785 Final Fantasy VII [Disc1of3].PBP


12/14/2011 11:39 PM 537,460,241 Final Fantasy VII [Disc2of3].PBP


12/14/2011 11:40 PM 486,978,593 Final Fantasy VII [Disc3of3].PBP


12/14/2011 11:55 PM 584,729,249 Final Fantasy VIII [Disc1of4].PBP


12/14/2011 11:56 PM 540,252,241 Final Fantasy VIII [Disc2of4].PBP


12/14/2011 11:57 PM 559,315,217 Final Fantasy VIII [Disc3of4].PBP


12/14/2011 11:59 PM 529,364,737 Final Fantasy VIII [Disc4of4].PBP


12/15/2011 12:17 AM 229,476,689 Guardian's Crusade.PBP


12/15/2011 12:46 AM 293,371,345 Legend of Dragoon, The [Disc1of4].PBP


12/15/2011 12:48 AM 340,324,545 Legend of Dragoon, The [Disc2of4].PBP


12/15/2011 12:49 AM 381,100,369 Legend of Dragoon, The [Disc3of4].PBP


12/15/2011 12:24 AM 476,207,697 Lunar 2 - Eternal Blue Complete [Disc2of3].PBP


12/15/2011 12:26 AM 505,371,089 Lunar 2 - Eternal Blue Complete [Disc3of3].PBP


12/15/2011 12:31 AM 373,211,649 SaGa Frontier 2.PBP


12/15/2011 12:34 AM 251,225,345 SaGa Frontier.PBP


07/11/1997 01:38 AM 524,288 SCPH1001.BIN


12/15/2011 12:35 AM 442,620,849 Star Ocean - The Second Story [Disc1of2].PBP


12/15/2011 12:37 AM 562,266,033 Star Ocean - The Second Story [Disc2of2].PBP


12/15/2011 01:39 AM 355,516,473 Suikoden II.PBP


12/15/2011 01:38 AM 402,903,497 Suikoden.PBP


12/15/2011 01:05 AM 395,957,089 Tales of Destiny II [Disc1of3].PBP


12/15/2011 01:06 AM 422,271,009 Tales of Destiny II [Disc2of3].PBP


12/15/2011 01:07 AM 465,556,897 Tales of Destiny II [Disc3of3].PBP


12/15/2011 01:04 AM 368,515,777 Tales of Destiny.PBP


12/15/2011 12:54 AM 342,463,249 Wild Arms 2 [Disc1of2].PBP


12/15/2011 12:56 AM 377,286,721 Wild Arms 2 [Disc2of2].PBP


12/15/2011 12:53 AM 333,055,137 Wild Arms.PBP


12/15/2011 12:40 AM 452,642,097 Xenogears [Disc1of2].PBP


12/15/2011 12:42 AM 458,665,441 Xenogears [Disc2of2].PBP


12/15/2011 01:10 AM 336,532,881 Arc the Lad Collection - Arc the Lad I.PBP


12/15/2011 01:12 AM 397,214,065 Arc the Lad Collection - Arc the Lad II.PBP


12/15/2011 01:14 AM 332,095,553 Arc the Lad Collection - Arc the Lad III [Disc1of2].PBP


12/15/2011 01:16 AM 439,706,353 Arc the Lad Collection - Arc the Lad III [Disc2of2].PBP


12/15/2011 12:56 AM 59,043,681 Beyond the Beyond.PBP


12/15/2011 12:58 AM 403,719,777 Blaze & Blade - Eternal Quest.PBP


12/15/2011 12:02 AM 251,262,897 Brave Fencer Musashi.PBP


12/15/2011 12:43 AM 195,027,409 Breath of Fire III.PBP


12/15/2011 12:44 AM 281,213,889 Breath of Fire IV.PBP


12/15/2011 01:09 AM 409,279,889 Castlevania - Symphony of the Night.PBP


12/15/2011 01:24 AM 514,171,017 Grandia [Disc1of2].PBP


12/15/2011 01:25 AM 490,029,305 Grandia [Disc2of2].PBP


12/15/2011 12:51 AM 455,618,001 Legend of Dragoon, The [Disc4of4].PBP


12/15/2011 01:37 AM 443,709,369 Legend of Mana.PBP


12/15/2011 12:20 AM 435,085,313 Lunar - Silver Star Story Complete [Disc1of2].PBP


12/15/2011 12:18 AM 520,605,393 Lunar - Silver Star Story Complete [Disc2of2].PBP


12/15/2011 12:23 AM 507,366,353 Lunar 2 - Eternal Blue Complete [Disc1of3].PBP


53 File(s) 21,426,358,348 bytes
 
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PopStation GUI works with wine 1.3, you'll need to have the VB6 runtime DLLs installed (through winetricks).


I've started converting all my images to eboot.
 
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