[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 ?