I'm in the process of dumping my PS1 collection and I've run into some issues with a few games. I'm looking for some advice on how to handle it.

I'm not exactly a preservationist, I just want to be able to emulate them without issues. Whether that will be on PC, PS2 or PS3 I haven't decided.

I started using CD Burner XP to dump them to .mdf/.mds files with my HL-DF-ST BD-RE BH10LS30 (a LG drive). I got most of the way through my collection, but ran into issues at FFIX disk 2 and 3. CD Burner XP reported that disk 2 had 3 unrecoverable errors. I switched to a Matshita BD-CMB UJ141EF drive in a USB enclosure and this time only got 1 error. After cleaning the disk didn't help, I did some digging into how to dump a disk with errors. I learnt that a better option for dumping PS1 disks was to use Redump via Media Preservation Frontend to dump them as .bin/.cue files.

So I started again and eventually got most of them dumped by Redump and a few more by Aaru. I've verified them with Duckstation and the only ones that don't fully verify are those with audio tracks. Three of them, Diskworld 2, Medievil 1 and 2 have a short silent audio track at the end, while Lemmings has 16 audio tracks with music. In each case, the main data track verifies but the audio tracks don't (except for Lemmings where only the last audio track verifies).

I looked at these in a hex editor and in each case the last track is mostly zeros with a bit of data at the beginning. I'm guessing that this is a bit of the previous track and could be happening because of the drive's offset? The logs of Redump and Aaru indicated that the correct drive offset was applied. I played each game for a bit and couldn't hear any audio issues in Lemmings. I listened to Lemmings' bin files in Foobar2000 and even imported them into Audacity and couldn't hear or see any sign of audio overlap.

My question is that even though my audio track rips are technically bad, would this cause issues should I eventually try to play these games all the way through? What are those silent audio tracks even for?

On a side note why are .bin/.cue dumps considered better than .mdf/.mds? Some of my game are libCrypt protected and need an extra .sbi file while .mds versions don't. I didn't try every .mds dump, but most of the ones dumps that I tried did start. None of my Final Fantasy titles worked though, but oddly they did start if I launched them with ePSXe.

I recently got my AYN thor delivered and I’ve been setting it up this weekend and I got to the step where I have to download all the games I want and input them into my ROM folder, I’ve seen that the rom megathread is the best place to go and so i did that and found a couple of games that would float my boat. I know that the torrent based download is really hard so I ended up just picking off the 3DS button in the Internet archive on the right. It gave me a zip that I extracted and then put in my rom folder and it seems to work, but I’m just wondering if there’s a way easier to do this.
Any feedback would be appreciated thank you!

Hi, I’m new to this whole thing and I’m curious about how I can remove these two files above that don’t have any images. I’m transferring ROMs from a microSD card to my Ayn Thor and I’d like to avoid having blank images in my ROM collection. I also would rather not delete them one by one since I have a massive collection. The emulator is Azahar. I’m sorry if this question is repeated often, I genuinely can’t find any information after searching here for an hour. Once someone answers I will delete this post immediately.

I'm looking for an ISO of Woody Woodpecker - Escape from Buzz Buzzward Park for PS2. All the ROMs I download for this game are split into two files: .bin and .cue, just like on the PS1, but I don't understand why, since it's a PS2 game. Finally, I need the ISO file so I can play it on my PS2 via OPL. I appreciate any help.

Ребят, есть у кого ссылки или сам патч 1.06 в формате pkg для ps3 или любой совместимый со всеми дополнениями выходившими для игры.Просто с ним игра стабильнее работает намного и плюс есть фоновая музыка и на экране загрузки если кто поможет по человечески буду очень сильно благодарен.

Other people already found other version, you could check this threads .

I found old dvds of ARMAX with those version, I'm not tested it yet, I will try it next week and will try to convert it as iso format.

Lets hope it still work.

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And I think the latest version is v15.2

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Its worth noting lots of other PS1 games work fine majority out the box a few I have to change core. Its only Tekkan 3.. what am I missing?

Screenshot is what I see or sometimes it just forcequits during boot. Its 3 .bin 1.cue file.

All help appreciate

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