An update to ripping PSX games in Linux

[dfreer]

Just found this on another site, have yet to try it out myself but I thought I'd post it here anyways.

BTW, I assume that the rar and ECM steps are for compression purposes only, and are not needed. Any thoughts?

BACKUP PSX GAMES UNDER LINUX

We need:
# cdrdao (install using the package manager of your distro)
# PowerISO
# dbase.PS1
# ECM
# rar (install using the package manager of your distro)
# ps1renamer (bash script created by me)

     #!/bin/bash

     BINFILE=$1

     CUEFILE=$2

     DBASEFILE=$3

     

     if [ -f $BINFILE ]; then

     rm -f /tmp/SYSTEM.CNF

     poweriso extract $BINFILE /SYSTEM.CNF -od /tmp > /dev/null

     CODE=`grep BOOT /tmp/SYSTEM.CNF`

     DESP=$((${#CODE}-13))

     CODE=${CODE:$DESP:11}

     rm -f /tmp/SYSTEM.CNF

     echo $CODE | sed 's/_//' | sed 's/\.//' > /tmp/miniout

     CODE=`cat /tmp/miniout`

     grep -i $CODE $DBASEFILE > /tmp/gamedata

     cat /tmp/gamedata | cut -d\; -f4 > /tmp/miniout

     SERIAL=`cat /tmp/miniout`

     cat /tmp/gamedata | cut -d\; -f6 /tmp/miniout

     LANGUAGE=`cat /tmp/miniout`

     cat /tmp/gamedata | cut -d\; -f9 > /tmp/miniout

     NAME=`cat /tmp/miniout`

     FINALNAME="${NAME} [${LANGUAGE}] [${SERIAL}]"

     sed -i s/"$BINFILE"/"$FINALNAME".bin/g $CUEFILE

     mv $BINFILE "${FINALNAME}.bin"

     mv $CUEFILE "${FINALNAME}.cue"

     rm /tmp/miniout

     rm /tmp/gamedata

     CURRENTDIR=`pwd`

     CURRENTDIR=`basename $CURRENTDIR`

     mv "../$CURRENTDIR" "../$FINALNAME"

     else

     echo Error

     fi




Steps (by order):
# Make the .bin/.cue with cdrdao


cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --datafile image.bin --device /dev/scd1 --driver generic-mmc-raw image.cue


# Rename using ps1renamer script


ps1renamer <file.bin> <file.cue> <path_to_dbase.PS1>


# Compress with ECM


ecm <file.bin> new_file.ecm


# Delete the .bin file
# Compress .ecm and .cue files with rar


rar a -v50000000b -m5 file_name <file.ecm> <file.cue>


THE BEST WAY TO LEARN: SEEING AN EXAMPLE


The backup of Kula World


wiked@hostname:~/PSX$ mkdir kula_world

wiked@hostname:~/PSX$ cd kula_world/

wiked@hostname:~/PSX/kula_world$ cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --datafile kula_world.bin --device /dev/scd1 --driver generic-mmc-raw kula_world.cue

Cdrdao version 1.2.2 - (C) Andreas Mueller <[e-mail]>

 SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling

 Paranoia DAE library - (C) Monty



Check http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html#dt for current driver tables.



Using libscg version 'ubuntu-0.8ubuntu1'



/dev/scd1: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-H30N     Rev: 1.01

Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC (raw writing) - Version 2.0 (options 0x0000)



Reading toc and track data...



Track   Mode    Flags  Start                Length

------------------------------------------------------------

1      DATA    4      00:00:00(     0)     24:06:21(108471)

Leadout DATA    4      24:06:21(108471)



PQ sub-channel reading (data track) is supported, data format is BCD.

Raw P-W sub-channel reading (data track) is supported.

Copying data track 1 (MODE2_RAW): start 00:00:00, length 24:06:21 to "kula_world.bin"...

Reading of toc and track data finished successfully.

wiked@hostname:~/PSX/kula_world$ ps1renamer kula_world.bin kula_world.cue ../../dbase.PS1

wiked@hostname:~/PSX/kula_world$ cd ..

wiked@hostname:~/PSX$ ls

Kula World [E] [SCES-01000]

wiked@hostname:~/PSX$ cd "Kula World [E] [SCES-01000]"

wiked@hostname:~/PSX/Kula World [E] [SCES-01000]$ ecm "Kula World [E] [SCES-01000].bin" "Kula World [E] [SCES-01000].ecm"

ECM - Encoder for Error Code Modeler format v1.0

Copyright (C) 2002 Neill Corlett



Encoding Kula World [E] [SCES-01000].bin to Kula World [E] [SCES-01000].ecm.

Literal bytes...........    1735536

Mode 1 sectors..........          0

Mode 2 form 1 sectors...      29444

Mode 2 form 2 sectors...      79027

Encoded 255123792 bytes -> 246346435 bytes

Done.

wiked@hostname:~/PSX/Kula World [E] [SCES-01000]$ rm "Kula World [E] [SCES-01000].bin"

wiked@hostname:~/PSX/Kula World [E] [SCES-01000]$ rar a -v50000000b -m5 "Kula World [E] [SCES-01000]" *



RAR 3.71   Copyright (c) 1993-2007 Alexander Roshal   20 Sep 2007

Shareware version         Type RAR -? for help



Evaluation copy. Please register.



Creating archive Kula World [E] [SCES-01000].rar



Adding    Kula World [E] [SCES-01000].ecm

Calculating the control sum



Creating archive Kula World [E] [SCES-01000].part2.rar



...       Kula World [E] [SCES-01000].ecm

Calculating the control sum



Creating archive Kula World [E] [SCES-01000].part3.rar



...       Kula World [E] [SCES-01000].ecm                             OK

Adding    Kula World [E] [SCES-01000].cue                             OK

Calculating the control sum

Done



IMPORTANT NOTES
# My ps1renamer ONLY works if you are it into the .bin/.cue directory
# My ps1renamer ONLY works if you type the parameters in the correct order.

First: .bin file
Second: .cue file
Third: dbase.PS1 file

This is correct: ps1renamer image.bin image.cue dbase.PS1
This is NOT correct: ps1renamer image.cue image.bin dbase.PS1
And other combinations are incorrect too.

# First, use simple names for the folder, bin and cue file. ps1renamer could fail if you use a complicated name. If you don't want have problems, use only letters and "_" for your folder, bin and cue names. Then, ps1renamer do the rest :-)

[Ultima]

ECM is, indeed, for archiving purposes only. pSX can't make use of ECM'd images. In addition, the person who wrote these instructions seems to assume that cdrdao's .toc file is equivalent to a .cue file... which it's not.

In the end, this doesn't do things much differently than the existing script does. It just does some more fancy things, like renaming and archiving (not really necessary or usable with pSX).

[dfreer]

A reply from the OP of that other site:

dfreer said:

Hmmm... I've used cdrdao in the past, and it was unable to read the subcode on some games correctly. Of course, I didn't use your ps1renamer script, I wonder if that makes the difference.

In particular, does this work with Jet Moto or Tomb Raider II (In Jet Moto, if it wasn't ripped correctly there will be no music during actual races, and Tomb Raider II won't even start a new game, also without music during the initial menu)?

Try to use readom to create the images. It's provided with wodim package.


readom dev=/dev/scd1 f=image.bin -clone retries=128 ts=128k



And wodim to burn it.


wodim dev=/dev/scd1 -raw96r driveropts=burnfree -clone -overburn image.bin



Change /dev/scd1 with your device

Once again, I have yet to try it myself, just thought I'd post it for you guys.