Update 6/3/2021: Google Search Console tells me this page is getting popular lately. While I originally wrote this with PSX games in mind, you can apply it to most other CD based consoles. I’ve also converted Sega CD, Sega Saturn and Turbo Duo CD games from BIN/CUE to CHD for use in RetroArch.
The Redump set for PlayStation 1 USA is about 385GB (just the games, no demo/samplers etc) 512GB in 7zip format; 7zip is not supported by the Beetle PSX core so when I originally added the PSX library to my Launchbox/RetroArch setup I just extracted every game. This took up a significant portion of the 1TB drive I was using to store all ROMs; additionally Redump uses separate BIN files for every track on the CD so a single game would have multiple BIN files plus the CUE. I found by accident an old Reddit post where I learned that you can compress BIN/CUE into Mame’s CHD format which is supported by the Beetle PSX core; the result is you will have a single compressed file for each PSX game that is comparable to the original 7zip in size and directly playable.
To do this conversion you need chdman.exe which can be found inside the MAME Official Windows Binary packages located here – mame0201b_64bit.exe was the latest release when I did the conversion.
Extract chdman.exe from mame0201b_64bit.exe into the same folder as your PSX BIN/CUE files. Then you can just run one command to convert everything to CHD:
for%iin(*.cue)dochdmancreatecd -i'%i' -o'%~ni.chd' |
Jan 29, 2019 An iso is not possible, the 1st track is always in mode2/form1 for ps1 games. By converting to iso it will switch to mode1. I've a big psx collection myself and half of it is converted to digital backups, this is my way of doing it, you've to what's best for your situation: - Rip disc to.bin/.cue - Convert to.img/.cue. Oct 12, 2015 If you ever find yourself with an issue that after you ripped your CD Game (either a PS1 or PS2 CD game), you got a bunch of multiple BIN files instead of one. (see first image above) And if you required to have a single BIN file in order to either convert it to a VCD for POPStarter (PSX) or an ISO for OPL (PS2). Then follow the following steps.
- Convert Ps1 Bin To Iso - vetbrown. ISOs » Sony Playstation » e » ecm tools. Convert Bin Files To Iso. Choose 'Tools Convert' Menu. PowerISO shows ISO to BIN Converter dialog. Choose the source iso file you want to convert. Set the output file format to BIN / CUE. Choose the output bin file name. Click 'OK' button to start converting BIN.
- Choose the source bin file you want to convert. You can also select the cue file. Set the output file format to iso file. Enter the output file path name.
Expect this to run for a long time; on the Redump set, this conversion took about 1.5 days on an i7-4770K and a 2.5″ 1TB Seagate FireCuda hybrid drive. You should also have free space equal to at least 1.5x the size of the Redump set before running the command Just make sure you have plenty of free disk space as this process will create new CHD files in addition to all the BIN/CUE files.
Bin2iso
BIN files is one of CD / DVD image formats. BIN file is a binary copy of an entire CDs / DVDs disc. BIN file contain ALL the data stored on the original disc including not only its files and folders but also its system-specifics information, for examples, bootable information, volume, volume attributes and any other system-specific data. A .BIN image file is not a collection of files or folders but is an exact duplicate of the raw data of the original disc, sector by sector. PowerISO can convert bin file to standard iso file.
PowerISO is also a BIN converter. It allow the users to open, edit, convert, and extract bin files. To convert bin / cue file to ISO, please follow the steps,
Run PowerISO.
Choose 'Tools > Convert...' Menu.
PowerISO shows Image Converter dialog.
Choose the source bin file you want to convert. You can also select the cue file.
Winbin2iso
Set the output file format to iso file.
How To Convert Ps1 Bin To Iso
Enter the output file path name.
Click 'OK' button to start converting bin file to iso. PowerISO will show the progress information during conversion.
After the bin file has been converted successfully, you should receive a message, 'Converting image file completes successfully'.
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