candre23 Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 (edited) Full sets take up a lot of space. I have that space, but that doesn't mean I want to use any more than I have to. Additionally, importing folders full of bin/cue/wav/etc for certain disc rips is messy. In a perfect world, every game would be compressed and stored in a single file. It seems most systems have at least one option, but with so many emulators and so many compression formats, it's been tricky figuring out what that option is. So far I've determined the following system - emulator - compression combos: PSP - PPSSPP - CSO Playstation 1 - Beetle PSX - CHD Playstation 2 - PCSX2 - GZ Gamecube/Wii - Dolphin - GCZ Dreamcast - DEmul - CHD Are these the best combos for these systems? What about other disc-based systems - Amiga CD32, Sega CD, etc? Thanks. Edited March 6, 2019 by candre23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Kant Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 Playstation 2 - PCSX2 - CSO (why better than GZ because with GZ there is the need of an index file) WiiU - CEMU - WUX most of the system that also Retroarch supports are able to use CHD for disc based games. I spend many hours to convert them by myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zetec-s-joe Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 wbfs I think is best for Wii maxcso app to convert PS2 to cso, great sizes and no extra index file like Chris mentions CHDv5 can be used on Dreamcast, Saturn, Sega CD, TG-CD, PCE-CD, PC-FX, Amiga CD32 and probably some others PSX can benefit from PBP as multi discs become one game I had converted my whole collection and was thinking of making a list like this with best apps for conversion etc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candre23 Posted March 7, 2019 Author Share Posted March 7, 2019 (edited) Thanks for the info. WBFS is just the wii file system, not a compression method as far as I understand things. Based on the CHD for PS2 recommendation, I'm scrapping my GZ plans and going with CSO instead. The set I acquired has each disc 7zipped, and it's about a 70/30 split for ISOs and BINs. Sadly, maxcso doesn't like BIN files, so it got a bit complicated. I worked up a batch file that will extract the image (which ends up as a SLUS-xxxx file), convert to ISO if it isn't already, convert to CSO with the original archive name, then delete the intermediate disc image(s). I've got my dual xeon server chewing through a couple instances, and another instance running on my desktop. 40 cores working their asses off, and it still looks like it won't be done until sometime this weekend. Edited March 7, 2019 by candre23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundogak Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 14 hours ago, candre23 said: Full sets take up a lot of space. I have that space, but that doesn't mean I want to use any more than I have to. Additionally, importing folders full of bin/cue/wav/etc for certain disc rips is messy. In a perfect world, every game would be compressed and stored in a single file. It seems most systems have at least one option, but with so many emulators and so many compression formats, it's been tricky figuring out what that option is. So far I've determined the following system - emulator - compression combos: PSP - PPSSPP - CSO Playstation 1 - Beetle PSX - CHD Playstation 2 - PCSX2 - GZ Gamecube/Wii - Dolphin - GCZ Dreamcast - DEmul - CHD Are these the best combos for these systems? What about other disc-based systems - Amiga CD32, Sega CD, etc? Thanks. Might also check this thread out with similar discussion. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zetec-s-joe Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 6 hours ago, candre23 said: Thanks for the info. WBFS is just the wii file system, not a compression method as far as I understand things. Based on the CHD for PS2 recommendation, I'm scrapping my GZ plans and going with CSO instead. The set I acquired has each disc 7zipped, and it's about a 70/30 split for ISOs and BINs. Sadly, maxcso doesn't like BIN files, so it got a bit complicated. I worked up a batch file that will extract the image (which ends up as a SLUS-xxxx file), convert to ISO if it isn't already, convert to CSO with the original archive name, then delete the intermediate disc image(s). I've got my dual xeon server chewing through a couple instances, and another instance running on my desktop. 40 cores working their asses off, and it still looks like it won't be done until sometime this weekend. Search google for PS2 bin to ISO converter, it works flawlessy and runs very quickly, I have done this on my mission to convert them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candre23 Posted March 7, 2019 Author Share Posted March 7, 2019 I'm using AnyToISO to convert from bin to ISO. It's pretty speedy - the CSO conversion is what's taking forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zetec-s-joe Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Maxcso doesnt take to long, you select which iso you want to convert and drag them over the .exe, its the highest form of cso as far as im aware, and pretty fast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candre23 Posted March 8, 2019 Author Share Posted March 8, 2019 Converting one file doesn't take that long. Converting ~1800 files from 7z to bin to iso to cso takes a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zetec-s-joe Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 You can drag the whole set onto the .exe to do them all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candre23 Posted March 8, 2019 Author Share Posted March 8, 2019 If your whole set is ISOs, sure. Mine is 7zipped, and the images in the archives are not all ISOs. That's why I had to crate the multi-step batch script to handle everything. To be clear, I'm not sitting here manually converting everything. I created the script to extract, convert BINs to ISOs when necessary, and then convert ISOs to CSOs. I set it up and now it's running on its own. I don't have to "do" anything, but it's still going to take a long time before it's done. Extracting each image takes 1-5 minutes, and converting each ISO to CSO takes 2-15 minutes, and I have ~1800 discs to convert. Overall, it takes a long time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suhrvivor Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 Pls gib scriptz If it's not too much of a trouble for you, please share your scripts so other people can save time compressing their files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candre23 Posted March 9, 2019 Author Share Posted March 9, 2019 (edited) It's not pretty, and it uses AnyToISO which isn't free, but here you go: for %%x in ("*.7z") do ( 7z e "%%x" for %%z in ("*.bin") do ( start /B /W anytoiso\anytoiso.exe /convert "%%z" "%%~nz.iso" ) for %%i in ("*.iso") do ( start /B /W maxcso "%%i" -o "%%~nx.cso" del *.iso del *.bin ) ) Edited March 9, 2019 by candre23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candre23 Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 Does anybody have a free utility that will convert ISO to bin/cue? chdman only works with bin/cue, and I've got a bunch of "miscellaneous" images that I can get to ISO, but not bin/cue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zetec-s-joe Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 YOu could try and mount it as a virtual drive then rip as bin/cue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candre23 Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 I found a program called "AnyBurn" which does it. It doesn't have a command line interface for automating, but I only had a handful that needed converting, so I did them manually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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