[PSX] psxImagesManipulator - reduce storage used and easily use multi-discs games

otanein

hi everyone,

just wanted to share with you a little project I've been working on.
https://github.com/otanein/psxImagesManipulator

can be useful if, like me, you want to have a sexy PSX games list without redundant games names or if you need a .cue file, or want to reduce your storage usage on your RetroPie!

hope you'll like it!

otanein

Just added ECM compressed images support. The tool is evolving frequently. Will keep you posted.

FF8 went from 2.7GB to 1.4 with no hustle and the automatic creation of the playlist and CD numbers creation.

Before

-rwx------  1 me  600   706M Nov 14  2000 Final Fantasy IX - CD1.bin
-rwx------  1 me  600   657M Nov 14  2000 Final Fantasy IX - CD2.bin
-rwx------  1 me  600   696M Nov 14  2000 Final Fantasy IX - CD3.bin
-rwx------  1 me  600   657M Nov 14  2000 Final Fantasy IX - CD4.bin

After

-rwx------  1 me  600   412M Aug 26 22:23 Final Fantasy 9.CD1
-rwx------  1 me  600   334M Aug 26 22:26 Final Fantasy 9.CD2
-rwx------  1 me  600   358M Aug 26 22:28 Final Fantasy 9.CD3
-rwx------  1 me  600   378M Aug 26 22:30 Final Fantasy 9.CD4
-rwx------  1 me  600    80B Aug 26 22:30 Final Fantasy 9.m3u

mitu

@otanein Are any of the PS1 emulator in RetroPie able to play .ecm files ?

otanein

@mitu said in [PSX] psxImagesManipulator - reduce storage used and easily use multi-discs games:

@otanein Are any of the PS1 emulator in RetroPie able to play .ecm files ?

@mitu No. As said here https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Playstation-1 for the list of emulators and compatible formats.
Edit : that's why my tool now uncompresses .ecm files before recompressing them to .chd which is supported by all PSX emulators.

Also, Retropie Wiki recommends the .m3u playlists for multi disks. My tool builds them :
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Playstation-1#m3u-playlist-for-multi-disc-games

elBenyo

I've been considering compressing roms lately as I keep them uncompressed for all systems to prevent SD write cycles from extractions. These wouldn't extract or cache whatsoever, right? Also does RetroArch cache from my current .bin's and .cue's to "/tmp/Retroarch/"? I've been considering changing RetroArch's tmp to "/tmp/" (a RAM drive) but that would choke a pi3 if it tried to cache a PSX game, thus I'm trying to trim them without the need of extraction.