jasenmichael

how to rip/backup playstation (psx) games to iso for use with retropie emulationstation retroarch pcsx and other emulators

I had recently been setting up retropie on one of my raspberrypi3's. I found all the psx .iso's I had made years ago ran perfect on the pi3 with retropie. It had been years since I backed up some of my old playstation games, and recently found some more lying around, I decided to add them to my retropie. After searching the internet, I rememberd I used achohol in windoze xp years ago, but now strickly a linux user.

At the time of this writing I am running UbuntuGnome 16.10 on my desktop so I found this method using cdrdao, bchunk, and a bash script

add main universe repo, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add this line save and exit: deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety main universe

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fsteffenhagen

# Input: list of rows with format: "<filesize> filename", e.g.
# filesizes.txt
#######################
# 1000K  file1.txt
# 200M   file2.txt
# 2G     file3.txt
#

# Output:
cat filesizes.txt | numfmt --from=iec | awk 'BEGIN {sum=0} {sum=sum+$1} END {printf "%.0f\n", sum}'