[PSX / PlayStation 1] Helper script to easily create ROM (Linux)

[sylmarch]

Hello,

First, thank you for RetroPie project!
It's a pleasure to play retro games, especially those I played on my old PSX that has been broken for several years... But I have kept the original discs fortunately.

I faced some issues to create working ROMs from my original PSX / PlayStation 1 discs following RetroPie documentation.

So, I have created a bash script that greatly helps this process.

I test it on Debian 11 but it should work on Debian 12 and Ubuntu too and on other Linux platforms.

My GitLab repository: https://gitlab.com/sylmarch-public/retropie-psx-cdrom-ripper

Current version is v1.1.0. It supports single-disc and multi-disc ripping.

Usage for single-disc game:

./retropie-psx-cdrom-ripper.sh --name "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2"

Usage for multi-disc game (hereby, 2 discs for Metal Gear Solid) :

./retropie-psx-cdrom-ripper.sh --name "Metal Gear Solid" --disc 2

Output files are directly copied to RetroPie PSX ROMs folder (i.e. ${HOME}/RetroPie/roms/psx/). Output directory can be changed using --outputdir path option.

Maybe could you reference it somewhere in the "ROMS" section on the PlayStation 1 page so that it can help other people?

Sylvain

[mitu]

@sylmarch said in [PSX / PlayStation 1] Helper script to easily create ROM (Linux):

Maybe could you reference it somewhere in the "ROMS" section on the PlayStation 1 page so that it can help other people?

Sure, send a PR to the Docs repo and we'll add it.
Nice script - which CD unit are you using to dump the discs ? Have you verified that the dumps are correct and they match the redump.org site checksums ?

[sylmarch]

@mitu Sorry for the delay, I didn't receive an e-mail notification about your reply or maybe I miss it....

PR is submitted to update the documentation.

Have you verified that the dumps are correct and they match the redump.org site checksums ?

I have just checked checksums for several games and they are correct:

• Medal Of Honor (Single-Disc)

  • Redump : SHA-1 - 99f46eec7a8abe548b376f3c920353ab1f642de2
  • Generated .bin file:

    $ sha1sum "${HOME}/RetroPie/roms/psx/Medal of Honor.bin"
    99f46eec7a8abe548b376f3c920353ab1f642de2  /home/mylogin/RetroPie/roms/psx/Medal of Honor.bin
    

• Metal Gear Solid (Multi-Disc)

  • Disc 1

    • Redump : SHA-1 - 3daa7fbdf69e232e76b593951950c34be930b299
    • Generated .bin file:

      $ sha1sum "${HOME}/RetroPie/roms/psx/Metal Gear Solid (Disc 1).bin"
      3daa7fbdf69e232e76b593951950c34be930b299  /home/mylogin/RetroPie/roms/psx/Metal Gear Solid (Disc 1).bin
      

  • Disc 2

    • Redump : SHA-1 - 578bef4fb45a4c20a7dd5f6645b474a5180aae04
    • Generated .bin file:

      $ sha1sum "${HOME}/RetroPie/roms/psx/Metal Gear Solid (Disc 2).bin"
      578bef4fb45a4c20a7dd5f6645b474a5180aae04  /home/mylogin/RetroPie/roms/psx/Metal Gear Solid (Disc 2).bin
      

Which CD unit are you using to dump the discs ?

I'm not sure so I'm not going to say anything wrong... The script is mainly a wrapper around cdrdao and toc2cue utilities so I let the cdrdao utility do the job to generate the .bin files.

I see other scripts on the Internet but they were buggy or not enough user-friendly as mine. To rip a disc, I just want to :

1. Insert the disc
2. Start the script given the name of the game and eventually, its number of discs
3. Restart EmulationStation and have fun