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  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    @haddad, whatcha need to know?
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    My preferred format for PS1 games these days is .PBP but really all formats are fine
  • haddad @ haddad:
    @Psionic Roshambo i have a PS1 game that has multiple .bin and cue files (1 bin and cue file per disk), how do I get all 4 dics into 1 .chd file?
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Ohh .cia probably means your going to ask about 3DS PS1 hmmm haven't tried out PS1 on my 3DS at all but it does seem rather interesting
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Well if you where converting them to .PBP I like Icecubes tool, but converting to .chd should be rather similar. Give me a moment to look into it.
  • haddad @ haddad:
    For example, if I take a pre-created Legend of Dragoon .pbp file, and use PS1 forwarder to convert it into .cia and install onto my 3DS, it crashes on launchung. BUT if I take the 4 BIN+CUE Files, put it through PSX2PSP, make a new .pbp, then take tht new .pbd and put it through ps1 forwarder to create a .cia and install that, that does NOT crash my 3ds?
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    https://wiki.recalbox.com/en/tutorials/utilities/rom-conversion/chdman
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Yeah disk compression and combining is so finicky
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    https://www.videohelp.com/software/CDMage
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Had a couple of games in the PS1 library that hated being compressed
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Icecubes tool was helpful there though, it has different levels of compression including off for those really picky games
  • haddad @ haddad:
    CHDMAN will only do .bin or .iso to .chd, I will end up with 4 seperate. chd's, not what I want, I want a single .chd
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    Try using CDMage to combine all bins then convert to a chd
  • haddad @ haddad:
    itried, does not work with CDMAGE
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    Followed this method? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VuKTm34xh6A Whats the title of the game
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Maybe try to find a already converted file
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    So many sources online, might be reinventing the wheel here
  • haddad @ haddad:
    In that video, the PS1 game has multiple .bin files but one .cue file

    My game has multiple 1 cue per bin file
  • haddad @ haddad:
    if I try to convert an already made .pbp to .cia, it crashes my 3ds
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Try a different one?
  • haddad @ haddad:
    What did work for me is taking the raw .bin files, convert it to .pbp, then take that .pbp and convert to .cia

    it worked, but my file is 30% larger, I want to utilize .chd to have a smaller file size
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    I can't say where but there are a lot of FF7 pbps online lol
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    It's that one stations they don't want us to pay at
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Yeah FF7 and a couple of others are sensitive to being compressed I think due to anti piracy measures
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Some sort of like sector check in the code of the game or something
    Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo: Some sort of like sector check in the code of the game or something