Playstation 1 ROMS

George Spiggott

Do you need the .CUE files to make .CHD files? I long since disposed of all mine to convert to .PHP. Would there be much benefit converting from .PHP to .CHD?

dankcushions

@george-spiggott said in Playstation 1 ROMS:

Do you need the .CUE files to make .CHD files? I long since disposed of all mine to convert to .PHP. Would there be much benefit converting from .PHP to .CHD?

it would be like scanning a photocopy.

Bio_Hazard1282

I got my ROMS to work. I used http://nielsbuus.dk/pg/psx_cue_maker/ to add the .cue files and it worked.

Should I do the same for PS2 games (If the Pi can emulate PS2)?

dankcushions

@bio_hazard1282 it can't

Clyde

@dankcushions said in Playstation 1 ROMS:

it would be like scanning a photocopy.

It depends, as CHD does compress significantly better than PBP, about 10%-30% depending on the game. It achieves that by using 7z's LZMA compression on non-audio tracks and FLAC on audio tracks to have the best compression method for each data type. Sources: #1, #2

On the other hand, PBP provides multi-disk support and compatibilty with PSP emulators and the original PSP hardware.

George Spiggott

@clyde interesting. Probably not worth converting my collection at the moment. But worth considering if, for example, Duckstation has significant benefits over PSX reArmed or Beetle.

Clyde

@george-spiggott said in Playstation 1 ROMS:

Duckstation has significant benefits over PSX reArmed or Beetle.

Also interesting, in fact so much that I took the liberty to open a general discussion thread about it. 😁

sirhenrythe5th

Keep in mind: Retroachievements, which is one of the greatest features for retro-gaming IMO, only supports CUE/BIN with PSX-Games.

I converted all my *.IMG, *.ISO, *.PBP back to CUE/BIN for that reason.
In times, where we can get 512GB-Cards for about 50Euros (in 1993 for my first MS-DOS-PC: 265MB-HDD for 300EUR :/ ), i dont want to miss this option just for some disk-/cardspace ;)

mitu

@sirhenrythe5th said in Playstation 1 ROMS:

Keep in mind: Retroachievements, which is one of the greatest features for retro-gaming IMO, only supports CUE/BIN with PSX-Games.

Are you sure ? I think it CHD support for cheevos has been added last year (https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/9405)

If I load Castlevania - Symphony of the Night in .chd format, it shows I have retroachievements available.

sirhenrythe5th

@mitu ooops, did not know that.
Sorry :/