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Re: gameID « Reply #1 on May 27, 2006, 5:33am »
Good question, meude. If you put your PS1 disk in a drive and look at the contents, you'll see that, among other folders and files, there's a folder called 'SLES_' followed by a number or 'SCUS_' followed by a number. There may be other variations on the letters as well, but I'm not sure what they are. Anyway, that's the game ID. If you only have an image, you can mount it with something like Daemon Tools (http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/announcements.php) so you can see the contents.
Perhaps someone here could give a better explanation of the range of variations in the ID? I'm sure it's explained somewhere here, but I'm not sure where. I also think it would be a good idea if this information were to be included in the 'Please remember when posting about game testing!!!' thread in the 'Game Compatibility' section - friendly, helpful moderator?
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Re: gameID « Reply #2 on May 27, 2006, 6:31pm »
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Good question, meude. If you put your PS1 disk in a drive and look at the contents, you'll see that, among other folders and files, there's a folder called 'SLES_' followed by a number or 'SCUS_' followed by a number. There may be other variations on the letters as well, but I'm not sure what they are. Anyway, that's the game ID. If you only have an image, you can mount it with something like Daemon Tools (http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/announcements.php) so you can see the contents.
Perhaps someone here could give a better explanation of the range of variations in the ID? I'm sure it's explained somewhere here, but I'm not sure where. I also think it would be a good idea if this information were to be included in the 'Please remember when posting about game testing!!!' thread in the 'Game Compatibility' section - friendly, helpful moderator?
edit: oh, and the number is usually on the spine of the case, of course, if you have the original game - no reason why you shouldn't; most PS1 games can be picked up very cheap now. ;-)
I recommend installing PS1 Renamer (specalized version of GCM Rename) and running it over your disc image directory (assuming you either downloaded or ripped some games and put them in a single directory). The default options will rename the images in the following format:
Game Name [Region] [Game ID]
It doesn't support MDS/MDF unfortunatly, but it DOES support CloneCD (which is what I use to make images anyway), BIN/CUE, CDI (yuck), and ISO (yuck yuck). Also, just a heads up but while it'll rename .7z, .ZIP, and .RAR files, it won't actually rename the images within the files. That may matter for you, it may not. Oh, and multipart RARs aren't supported.
But that said, it's still an extremely handy way to organize your Playstation disc images and really makes things simpler when you want to know stuff like region and game ID (you can configure your naming in a variety of other ways...but yea..the default is just dandy)
- Need to organize your PS1 disc images? Use PS1 Renamer. Never have to worry about looking up a GameID number ever again! - Unless otherwise stated, I'm using the latest version of pSX Emulator with SCPH-1001.
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Re: gameID « Reply #6 on May 28, 2006, 7:24pm »
I was interested in something like this the other day, something thats like GoodTools for the PS1. Does the PS1 Renamer tell you if you've created a bad or good iso?
I was interested in something like this the other day, something thats like GoodTools for the PS1. Does the PS1 Renamer tell you if you've created a bad or good iso?
Sadly, no. Compiling that data would be quite the undertaking (especially taking into account the various disc image formats that people like to use). This just reads the disc id and modifies the name accordingly.
From what I understand, the people with the biggest problem with bad disc images are Euro/PAL folk since damn near all of those get hacked/patched/trained. A 100% auditing tool that'd totally take care of them is still a few years off (when it's more viable for people to play PokeROM and actually try to amass complete sets).
- Need to organize your PS1 disc images? Use PS1 Renamer. Never have to worry about looking up a GameID number ever again! - Unless otherwise stated, I'm using the latest version of pSX Emulator with SCPH-1001.
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