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prince_kenshi
07-30-2001, 07:11 PM
I have a Japanese version of Final Fantasy VII coming soon through the mail. I don't have a Japanese Playstation and rather than try to get my mod chip to work again, I've decided to use an emulator. Well I have the emulator working but it drags so slow. I believe it's because of the SCSI emulation. I can only rip music cd's at around 2x before it lags down the processor. So I figured I should try ripping my test game (FF7 English) and play it from that. The problem is that X-cdroast is the only way I know how and it won't read from the Playstation disc. Is there any utility that will actually rip it? Thank you for your time.
prince_kenshi
07-30-2001, 09:02 PM
I give everyone permission to answer my question.
I've not only done this, but actually played a ripped & burned game or two with a PSX emulator; let me root around and see if I can find the info I used to do it...
prince_kenshi
07-31-2001, 01:41 AM
Thanks. I'll be looking forward to it.
Harry
07-31-2001, 04:26 AM
This works for me:
http://www.megagames.com/psx/psx_copy_patch_linux.shtml
You might have to go to the cdrdao homepage to see what driver you should use for your drive. The generic-mmc-raw shown in the examples work fine for my Iomega Zip-CD though.
prince_kenshi
07-31-2001, 08:15 AM
Thanks. I'll have to try that when I come home today.
dvdnut
07-31-2001, 08:18 AM
thank you for your permission by the way.
YaRness
07-31-2001, 08:40 AM
why the hell would you have a japanese version coming to you in the mail?
Thanatos
07-31-2001, 10:54 AM
NERO for windows (I don't know if they have a linux version)
supports overburning and direct data transfer, so intentionally bad CRC's don't break the copy (like those game disks that show up as 14 gigs or something).
a great resource is
Game Copy World (http://www.gamecopyworld.com)
They have just about everything for that. No pop-up banners or anything...
they have the NOCD hack for Broodwar and Starcraft, which is really useful when my fiancee leaves her copy of broodwar 8 hours away in Florida!
Originally posted by Harry:
<STRONG>This works for me:
http://www.megagames.com/psx/psx_copy_patch_linux.shtml
You might have to go to the cdrdao homepage to see what driver you should use for your drive. The generic-mmc-raw shown in the examples work fine for my Iomega Zip-CD though.</STRONG>
Actually, this sounds interesting and I'm going to try it out myself. The way I was thinking was to use NERO in such a way to create a 1:1 copy, and that doesnt always work just right anyway.
prince_kenshi
07-31-2001, 11:07 PM
Originally posted by YaRness:
<STRONG>why the hell would you have a japanese version coming to you in the mail?</STRONG>
I'm a crazed fanatic who wants to see the differences with the Japanese version. I also want to see if I'm good enough to play it when I can't read a damn thing.
I haven't tried the cdrdao thing yet. I've been too busy. I don't think the cd-rom is the only thing slowing it down anymore though. As much as I hate it, there are so many more emulators for Windows and some work better.