It would fail with weird errors unless I provided the game in cuesheet format.Īlmost any cuesheet file can be found at . In fact, you can just download every cuesheet for a given system all at once, which is nice. Maybe it will preclude you from having to create your own, if you ripped your games as ISO. I realized the need for cuesheet format when I tried to use the Mednafen emulator to play a Playstation 1 game I backed up in ISO format. Most 16-bit era CD games were this kind of disc, and sometimes it was used in the early games of the PS1/Saturn generation. You can rip all of their data, but without metadata to indicate the track boundaries, it seems that multi-track disc images can’t be properly handled (?). I mentioned in my first post in this series that many old games use “mixed-mode discs” (audio and data as separate tracks). Well there’s actually a case where cdrdao is needed, and that is when your emulator wants game images in the “ cuesheet” format (a pair of files with the file extensions. In a previous post, I mentioned that two command-line utilities for making optical disc images on Mac OS X were dd and cdrdao, but I recommended dd because it was simpler to use. Preserving CD and DVD-based Console Games (Pt. 2) Preserving CD and DVD-based Console Games