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thingsiplay / tochd

Convert game ISO and archives to CD/DVD CHD for emulation on Linux.
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Dump optical media (CD+DVD) directly to CHD #2

Closed SpaceAgeHero closed 8 months ago

SpaceAgeHero commented 2 years ago

Thanks for this tool!

Think you can add direct dumping from game discs to CHD?

thingsiplay commented 2 years ago

Hi. At the current moment there are no plans to add such a support, but may look into it in the future. That is actually an interesting idea I didn't think of.

SpaceAgeHero commented 2 years ago

Thanks for considering. CDs (PSOne and PS2) can be ripped to bin/cue with cdrdao (+ toc2cue): Pandorawiki

DVDs (e.g. PS2) should be as straightforward as: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=image_name.iso

thingsiplay commented 2 years ago

Good to know about that program. One problem to me is, that I don't use a disk drive anymore (I have one, just not connected at the moment, so not big deal to connect). But the bigger problem is, the entire program is written in a way that allows easy integration of other file formats, not other methods like ripping CD. So I would need to sit down and think about how to integrate it best and actually get my drive working again for testing. Especially all the available formats for all game consoles. I never thought about ripping disks directly and only considered files to convert.

thingsiplay commented 8 months ago

I guess this can be considered as not planned. I think ripping CDs and similar disks is outside of the scope of this program. It's another complexity with all the formats and another applications that at this stage come to the conclusion not to integrate such a functionality. Hope you are not too disappointed by this decision.

But if anyone disagrees and think this should be integrated, feel free to reopen this issue and discuss!