Since getting an Nvidia Shield TV + Retrocore, I had a renewed interest in emulation in general (after being away from it for years). It might be old news by now but it was pretty amazing to see a tiny quiet Android box running PS1 emulators on a TV, playing games at full speed with the usual emu enhancements (save states, etc).
Right now I'm just trying to figure out how to sort out my old redump PS1 ISO folder. Most of the games are in game.bin.ecm format and compressed with 7zip. The ones with multi-tracks are in .ape format. In terms of storage, there's no problem here.
But there are two main issues:
1) clrmamepro + the redump PS1 dat demands that all files be in .bin format (including the audio .wavs) so if I want to keep track of what I do and don't have, I'll need to convert them. I don't mind doing so, but I just want to make sure this is the current preferred format before I begin.
2) Some or most PS1 emulators can decompress and run standard single-track isos (not sure about multi-track ones) before running them (very convenient). However, this is not possible with the game.bin.ecm + .ape format.
Basically I just want an organised PS1 iso set which can be decompressed on-the-fly (instead of manually decompressed beforehand) and played with emulators on the Nvidia Shield TV.
Please let me know your thoughts and ideas.
How are your PS1 redump files organised?
How are your PS1 redump files organised?
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Re: How are your PS1 redump files organised?
>game.bin.ecm + .ape format
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Re: How are your PS1 redump files organised?
Until recently, no.
Re: How are your PS1 redump files organised?
i haven't seen ecm + ape since the UG days.
Everyone's just using bin and putting them in torrentzip or 7z
Everyone's just using bin and putting them in torrentzip or 7z
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battosai121
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Re: How are your PS1 redump files organised?
One of theses days I'll check out the chd format but ecm works for me right now. Its time consuming but it has good compression for me...user7 wrote:>game.bin.ecm + .ape format
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LedZeppelin68
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Re: How are your PS1 redump files organised?
Not the best solution for decompressing them on-the-fly on "a tiny quiet Android box".LedZeppelin68 wrote:Merge It!
Re: How are your PS1 redump files organised?
Personally, all my dumps are all kept in their original bin format, Checked against the DAT, renamed, tzipped and organized by RomVault.
Whilst tzip probably doesn't achieve the highest compression rate, it is certainly a lot faster than 7z or other methods.
A lot of emulators will allow you to open the zip directly too (although i don't know if that applies to current PSX emulators).
Whilst tzip probably doesn't achieve the highest compression rate, it is certainly a lot faster than 7z or other methods.
A lot of emulators will allow you to open the zip directly too (although i don't know if that applies to current PSX emulators).
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LedZeppelin68
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Re: How are your PS1 redump files organised?
everything is possible!F1ReB4LL wrote:Not the best solution for decompressing them on-the-fly on "a tiny quiet Android box".LedZeppelin68 wrote:Merge It!
