Squishy Tia wrote:
What's the best way to create an ISO of a PSX game in OS X? It used to be that in OS 9 there was an app I could use that would ignore read errors (the intentional "bad" sectors imprinted on the discs), but in OS X, Toast and Disk Utility both choke on PSX discs immediately.
On the old forum, I had a really detailed post explaining how to copy PSX games on OSX, but, since it doesn't look like the old posts will be recovered any time soon, here it goes . . . ;)
I recommend
Firestarter FX.
Make sure to check "Read Raw."
There may be some graphical glitching when switching panels (started for me when I updated to Snow Leopard), but everything else still works.
I've heard that some newer drives aren't supported though, so YMMV . . .
You can also try to do a direct copy with
dd from the terminal.
Be careful with dd, though. It copies at a low-level and can easily overwrite files.
dd if=/dev/disk1 of=~/Downloads/myISO.iso
This should work as long as your disc drive is disk1. You can check in Disk Utility when you have a disc in the drive.
If it's not, just change the "1" to whatever number your disc drive is.
Be warned, dd won't give you a progress meter for the copy.
Just leave it running for 20-40 min depending on your drive speed (until the disc stops spinning).
When it stops, you will see output and the amount of data copied.
You can always stop the process at any time with CTRL+C.
You can also verify the integrity of the ISO by checking its checksum on
Redump.org.
Hashtab is a great program for calculating checksums (even includes a Services menu!).
Hope this helps! ;)