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Post by filippo333 on Oct 21, 2006 3:59:12 GMT -5
Is it Possible to Copy games to a CD-R and play them using PSX?
Thanx! Fil.
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Post by ryon on Oct 21, 2006 8:32:03 GMT -5
should be possible... if u have the image... just use alcohol 120 or any software that u have that can read and burn the image onto a disc...
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Post by patrickp on Oct 21, 2006 8:43:17 GMT -5
Yes, filippo333. I presume you're talking about copying images to disks: first you need to have a good image (remember that downloaded images often aren't perfect - they may even play Ok, but still may have faults) and it's best to use a burning application that's good at dealing with non-standard disk formats, like CloneCD. You need to bear in mind that many Playstation games are copy-protected. Therefore, you not only need a good image, but you may also need to ensure you have the accompanying files: in the case of CloneCD images, you not only need the .img file, you need the .ccd and .sub files as well. Slow burning speeds are often useful, and a good burner drive which recognises and can duplicate non-standard formats is useful. You can, of course, also copy Playstation disks directly if your burning app can do this. Don't forget that, depending on which country you're in, you will probably be limited to the numbers of copies of a piece of software you can have: generally, you're entitled to have one backup copy. This assumes, of course, that you legitimately own the copy of the software that you have. But, unlike an actual Playstation, which needs modifying to play non-original disks, Playstation emulators will generally play good copied disks quite happily, as long as they're capable of playing the game, i.e. the game is compatible. |
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Post by Heihachi_73 on Oct 31, 2006 4:18:12 GMT -5
I was wondering why anyone would need to copy an original PlayStation CD to a CD-R in the first place.
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Post by Ultima on Oct 31, 2006 10:27:50 GMT -5
If your disc is scratched badly, it won't read well, but copying is still possible. Or if people prefer not to use their original discs in order to protect them, they copy them too.
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Post by Gamesoul Master on Nov 4, 2006 2:27:24 GMT -5
And believe me... "protect them" can mean quite a few things. Like... when my first disc of FFVII literally shattered in my CD-burner...
But never fear. pSX should never have this kind of effect on the disc, as it generally only occurs when you run the disc at 40x or higher for a little while (like, at least a couple minutes), and I'm pretty sure (though I never measured) that pSX doesn't make a disc spin anywhere near that speed. Probably runs at 16x at most, as I'm pretty sure it doesn't run at the same speeds as the real hardware (as I recall a conversation a while back, where pSX Author wasn't 100% of all the speed changes on the hardware). It's not like the drive would have to run at any higher than 4x or so while the emulator is running, unless you're fast forwarding.
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Post by pSX Author on Nov 4, 2006 13:43:39 GMT -5
Its completely up to the OS/drive/driver how fast the drive spins when using pSX - I just ask it to read the CD... I don't change any config settings.
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Post by dragonkx on Nov 21, 2006 21:27:38 GMT -5
And believe me... "protect them" can mean quite a few things. Like... when my first disc of FFVII literally shattered in my CD-burner... this happened to me too with my rival schools disc (original) thank god that i had a back up of this disc so i can play again, one tool reeeeeally useful is Isobuster, with this tool you can recover discs and skip read errors and make raw cd images, i suggest you to try it for yourselves |
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