Using real games

RetroArch Windows devices
#1

Hi, sorry again another post

Is possible to use the original CD games like in KEGA, MagicEngine, epsxe, etc?

Thanks

#2

Not directly. You need to rip them yourself and then use the resulting image.

#3

Thanks again

Any ideas if support for CUE/WAV will be add to the cores?

I tested in mednafen-pce-fast and only CUE/OGG works, CUE/WAV hang retroarch.

Same CUE/WAV works fine in standalone mednafen

If CUE/WAV is supported, will be much easy to do a script for load real CD using a temporary image

#4

Does cue/wav provide any benefits beyond monolithic bin/cue?

#5

Is just me, the PC i have for emulators, have a 4GB CF, and 600-700mb is a lot, with wav files i can make it mono, for example, and reduce size. But you are right… for 99.9999% of people now, 600mb is nothing, and CUE/WAV is no benefits at all over CUE/BIN

Sorry to lost your time in the question

Well, i made a small workaround for people with frontends, for using real CDs. Just need to wait for 1-3 minute until game is ripped, but at least is made automatically and transparent

I compile cdrdao. Sorry for the big size of download, i used cygwin to compile

www.akihabara-online.com/tmp/cdrdao.zip

**if someone dont want to download my compilation, just download official cdrdao. I just compile to made easy

Put this in a batch file

@echo off cdrdao read-cd --read-raw --datafile tmp.bin --device 0,0,0 tmp.toc retroarch -L /path/to/libretro/core.so tmp.toc del tmp.*

**change the “x” in --device x,0,0 with the number of your cdrom, use “cdrdao scanbus” to know your CD ID (normally 0 to 5)

I know is some very simple, and most people know how to do this, but maybe help someone else

Thanks

#6

Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing it!