Can't play PS1 games with multiple .bin tracks?

[KrillCaz]

For some reason my games which come in multiple ".bin" files will not work. Games with only one .bin file and one .cue file works just fine. Does anyone know what's the issue?

Example of a game which will not work:

Example of a game which does work:

[Mr_Numbers]

For some reason my games which come in multiple ".bin" files will not work. Games with only one .bin file and one .cue file works just fine. Does anyone know what's the issue?

Example of a game which will not work:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]37846[/ATTACH]

Example of a game which does work:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]37847[/ATTACH]

I was scratching my head on this one as well but have found the solution:

(this info is from the following thread http://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?57757-ECM-And-APE-Guide)

download and install ISObuster (free version)

Run ISO buster

Hit File then Open Image File

Select the cue file (or ccd file)

This should now show a list of tracks on the left

Hit File then CD then Extract CD <Image> then RAW (*.bin *.iso) (I had to right click on the CD to select this option with the latest version)

Change the Save Type from *.iso to *.bin

In the File Name: text box, rename the output file (do not forget to change .iso to .bin on the end of it) (I would suggest naming the files as the Hyperspin database format)

Change the destination folder if you like then hit Save

After this has completed you will then be asked to save a cue file, just hit Save

[rfancella]

I was scratching my head on this one as well but have found the solution:

(this info is from the following thread http://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?57757-ECM-And-APE-Guide)

download and install ISObuster (free version)

Run ISO buster

Hit File then Open Image File

Select the cue file (or ccd file)

This should now show a list of tracks on the left

Hit File then CD then Extract CD <Image> then RAW (*.bin *.iso) (I had to right click on the CD to select this option with the latest version)

Change the Save Type from *.iso to *.bin

In the File Name: text box, rename the output file (do not forget to change .iso to .bin on the end of it) (I would suggest naming the files as the Hyperspin database format)

Change the destination folder if you like then hit Save

After this has completed you will then be asked to save a cue file, just hit Save

Hi,

Sorry I didn't see this thread when originally posted. It has to do with the multiple bin files. HL is probably just picking the bin files over the cue files. Maybe an easier way to fix this is to remove bin from the list of extensions. Or move cue before bin. I believe it is probably trying to load the first bin file, which in the case of multiple bins, is probably a track. If you can get it to load the cue first, you will not have to re-do all your roms.

Thanks,

Ron

[Mr_Numbers]

Hi,

Sorry I didn't see this thread when originally posted. It has to do with the multiple bin files. HL is probably just picking the bin files over the cue files. Maybe an easier way to fix this is to remove bin from the list of extensions. Or move cue before bin. I believe it is probably trying to load the first bin file, which in the case of multiple bins, is probably a track. If you can get it to load the cue first, you will not have to re-do all your roms.

Thanks,

Ron

The files still wouldn't work outside of HS in Mednafen so I don't believe the issue is HS related.

[rfancella]

The files still wouldn't work outside of HS in Mednafen so I don't believe the issue is HS related.

Understood, but that still doesn't rule out the order for your HL. When loading the roms outside HS, are you loading the bin or cue files?? If there are multiple bins, you have to load the cue. If only one bin, then that one bin has all the tracks in it (or it's a single track disk). Therefore it would work if you loaded the bin or the cue. Same in HyperSpin. If you loaded a bin file for a rom that has multiple bin files, I would imagine it would not work at all. For that same rom, if the cue file was good, it would work if you loaded the cue from the emulator or if HL loaded the cue before it tried to load the bin.

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks,

Ron

[Mr_Numbers]

Understood, but that still doesn't rule out the order for your HL. When loading the roms outside HS, are you loading the bin or cue files?? If there are multiple bins, you have to load the cue. If only one bin, then that one bin has all the tracks in it (or it's a single track disk). Therefore it would work if you loaded the bin or the cue. Same in HyperSpin. If you loaded a bin file for a rom that has multiple bin files, I would imagine it would not work at all. For that same rom, if the cue file was good, it would work if you loaded the cue from the emulator or if HL loaded the cue before it tried to load the bin.

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks,

Ron

I ruled that out and have HL set to only use cue with 7z enabled and all the single bin games (with matching cue) have no problem. I extracted about 5 individual games with multi bin and tried launching the cue directly from Mednafen and they wouldn't launch. The single bin files launched no issue (I stopped testing after 5 or so again). Mednafen doesn't even have bin as an extension for me and I don't remember removing it but it's possible. Anyways I've still had a few games that have issues after conversion to single bin but I haven't done any further testing on the matter as converting seems to have about 80-90% success.

[rfancella]

I ruled that out and have HL set to only use cue with 7z enabled and all the single bin games (with matching cue) have no problem. I extracted about 5 individual games with multi bin and tried launching the cue directly from Mednafen and they wouldn't launch. The single bin files launched no issue (I stopped testing after 5 or so again). Mednafen doesn't even have bin as an extension for me and I don't remember removing it but it's possible. Anyways I've still had a few games that have issues after conversion to single bin but I haven't done any further testing on the matter as converting seems to have about 80-90% success.

Do you have many to convert?

Thanks,

Ron

[Mr_Numbers]

Do you have many to convert?

Thanks,

Ron

I got the complete set of games from somewhere and it seems maybe 1/5 games are multi-bin. I was already trying to convert them from rar just to save space so it'll probably be awhile. I might just get lazy and go to PD but figured since I have them already I might as well just convert. Either way thanks for your guides as they helped me setup some of my other systems.