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February 28, 2008

How to: Rip PSX/PS1 Original CDs into Images

This post discusses on how to rip the games from an original PSX/PS1 cd. You can then run these file (will be called ROMs) with an emulator. One such emulator is psx4all, a 3rd party application that runs PSX games on your iPhone/iPod Touch.

First, you'll need to download Alcohol 52% Free Edition. You can also use Alcohol 120%, but for the sake of this guide, I'm going to touch on Alcohol 52%. After you have downloaded and installed it, make sure you restart your computer for changes to take place effectively. Now you can do the following:

Step 1: Select Image Making Wizard

Step 2: Select your CD/DVD drive

Step 3: Check on Read Sub-Channel Data from current disc

Step 4: Select your datatype from the drop down menu to Play Station

Step 5: Click Next button to continue

Step 6: Choose your destination folder for the Image Location

Step 7: [Step optional] You can change the name of the image under Image Name

Step 8: Change the Image Format into CloneCD Image File (*.ccd)

Step 9: Click on Start to begin ripping.

The file that you'll be interested is the *.img file. That would be the ROM file.

So there you go, you now have a copy of your PSX game in your hard drive.

Screen Shots

I decided to create some screen captures just for you. If you make a mistake, follow these screen captures and you can never go wrong.

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Begin by clicking "Image Making Wizard"

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Item 1: Check your CD drive. Make sure you select the correct one.

Item 2: Check (tick) this option

Item 3: Select "Play Station" in drop down menu

Item 4: This item shouldn't be grayed out. If it's grayed out, most probably you have a faulty CD or a faulty drive. Click "Next >" to continue

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Item 5: Select your output folder. For my case, I place it in "D:\psx roms\". You can put it anywhere though

Item 6: Select "CloneCD Image File (*.ccd)" from the drop down menu

Item 7: Click "Start" to begin the ripping process

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Wait for your process to finish. Depending on how fast your drive is, it might take approximately 5-10 mins to rip a CD.

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Your image now should appear on the list once it have finished ripping!

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The file you should be interested is the one highlighted in blue. If you're playing an emulator that runs on your PC or iPhone/iPod Touch, just that *.img file is enough. You can ignore the other files.

Hope this helps to the lot of you.

Cheers!

4 comments:

William said...

Thanks a lot for this awesome post! It's great for getting ROMs that I can't find online, but have the disk. Very helpful.

Yusry said...

Hi Travis,

You can also use Alcohol 52% to rip ISO (try latest version, I just tried a while ago).

Let me know if you still require a guide. I might write one for you.

Good luck.

Z said...

I only need to put the .img file in the roms/psx folder on my ipod not any other folders right?

Yusry said...

Hi DarkMaiku,

Please refer to my post. I have written a detailed explanation of how it's done.

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