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cue/bin file?? newbie needs help!

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#1 ·
i'm not sure if my other message got posted, but i have my psx set-up but i can't play my playstation cd's. what do i have to do to play them?? what is a cue/bin?? how do i make a cue/bin ?? help!!
 
#4 ·
thanks guys, for the info but i am still lost because i am an emulator baby i know almost nothing about it. what is my objective with cue/bin? you told me what tool to use, but what do i do after i make the file? do i make it from a cd? help!! is there a website that will tell me about this procass step by step? thanks

random
 
#8 · (Edited)
CDRWIN is better. Use this instruction:

http://www.videohelp.com/makebin.htm

P.S. Just ignore about VCD. Just follow this! OK ?

ISOBUSTER is good only .. why ? --> A great program that will eve read disks that Windows won't read (ie. scratched discs). Use the Extract CD content-RAW command to create an image file (a .bin and .cue file).

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#9 ·
I have made images with Alcohol 120%, and haven't had one yet that a Playstation could read but Alcohol couldn't.

As for a program being able to read disks that Windows won't (i.e. scratched disks), be careful! Many programs that make images "succeed" at reading scratched disks by [highlight]ignoring[/highlight] the errors on the disk and copying the bad data into the image. This results in an image that you might be able to play for a while, but will eventually fail when you get to a certain part of the game. This is why so many pirated images on the 'Net contain bad data.

The way I got Alcohol 120% to make clean images of all my PS1 games was to set it to [highlight]not[/highlight] ignore errors and retry reading as many times as possible. Alcohol, when it retries, will slow the disk down in order to have a better chance of reading clean data the next time. I also had to use a scratch removal kit (GameDoctor) on some used disks before Alcohol would give me a clean read. A couple had label-side scratches and therefore had to be thrown away (the data was actually scratched away, not just obscured).


Dan
 
#10 ·
randomhajile said:
i'm not sure if my other message got posted, but i have my psx set-up but i can't play my playstation cd's. what do i have to do to play them?? what is a cue/bin?? how do i make a cue/bin ?? help!!
Just download magiciso and use it to extract bin/cue image. or you can burn bin/cue image onto cd/dvd with magiciso. It works great.

http://www.magiciso.com/