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The Ultimate Guide To PSX CD-Rs -> Ripping PSX CDROMs

Ripping With CDRDAO

(portable Linux x86_64 build.)

CDRDAO by default will rip a CD to it’s own native BIN/TOC format, this can be done with the command below.

cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --read-subchan rw_raw --driver generic-mmc-raw yourgame.toc

NOTE: The above command must be run immediately after inserting the CD that you are ripping into your drive, before it is mounted by the computer OS. Otherwise, you will run into ‘device busy’ errors as CDRDAO can not access the CD while your OS has it mounted.

Next use the toc2cue program included in CDRDAO to then convert this image to a proper BIN/CUE format (with audio tracks in the correct byte order and SubChannel data removed) that can then be used by other burning programs using this command:

toc2cue -C yourgame.bin -s yourgame.toc yourgame.cue

This will output 2 new files, yourgame.bin and yourgame.cue. These 2 files can be burned like any other BIN/CUE CD image, either by CDRDAO or another program. The other file pair: yourgame.toc and data.bin is the BIN/TOC fileset that can only be burned by CDRDAO.