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                           PSX2HD Version 1.1                      THeLoRD'99
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                              Readme File
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06/26/99
[email protected]
http://thelord-psx.virtualave.net

Contents
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  1. What is PSX2HD ?
  2. What would it be usefull for ?
  3. What's new ?
  4. Registration.
  5. Setup PSX2HD.
  6. Using PSX2HD.
  7. How to use BuildCD to create a valid CD image from the files extracted
     from the CD.
  8. Known Bugs.
  9. Future projects.

1. What is PSX2HD ?
    
   PSX2HD is a simple tool that allows you to copy all the files from a PSX CD
   to your hard disk (including Streams and XA audio, which cannot be copied
   normally with the MS-DOS COPY function). At the same time, it also creates
   a CTI script file which is used with BuildCD, the CD image generator for
   PSX. Audio tracks are NOT extracted so you have to use an external program
   like Easy CD-DA Extractor to perform audio extraction.

2. What would it be usefull for ?

   When the files are on the HD, you can modify them as you wish. You can for
   example pictures music, pictures or videos of the game. With this tool, it
   should also be easier to code some intro or for example to code a little
   program to change video mode of the running program.

3. Whats new ?
   
   A lot of bugs have been fixed thanks to Naitachal's help. Version 1.0 of
   PSX2HD was generating incorrect CTI files. A backslash was put infront of 
   each directory, which wasn't done with the beta version I used for 
   debugging.
   This Borland Pascal 7.0 program crashed with fast pentium (Runtime Error 200).
   This was a bug of Borland, not mine. But program has been patched with BP7PAT.
   Some other little minor bugs have been fixed too.
   I've also added an automatic CDRWIN CUEFile Generator.
   
4. Registration

   This program is of course a freeware. But if you use it regularly please
   "register" it by sending me an e-mail. I would just like to know how many
   people are using this proggy.

5. Setup PSX2HD

   PSX2HD needs to know where the license information file is located. You
   will have to set an environment variable called LICENSE containing the
   full path of this file.
   Example :
     SET LICENSE=C:\BUILDCD\LICENSEE.DAT

   PSX2HD also needs to use MSCDEX. If you are using WIN9x, MSCDEX is emulated
   so you do not need to load it in your autoexec.bat.

6. Using PSX2HD

   Very easy.
   PSX2HD CDROM: X:\MYFILE.CTI
   CDROM: is your CDROM drive letter.
   X:\MYFILE.CTI is the destination path of the target CTI file.
   A subdirectory called by the same name of your CTI file will be created
   and all the files from the CDROM will be put on (keeping the directory
   structure).
   All you have to do now is waiting...
   This is the main problem of PSX2HD : it's very slow, especially when
   copying files with XA sectors. It's a 16-bit program and reading sectors
   with the CDROM driver is a great lost of time.

7. How to use BuildCD to create a valid CD image from the files extracted
   from the CD.

   It's very boring to do all these steps !
   1. Create a BuildCD CD Image :
        BUILDCD MYFILE.CTI -iMYIMAGE.IMG
        BuildCD will read the CTI script and convert it to a propietary
        CD image format. It cannot be burnt on a CD.
   2. Convert this image to a standard ISO CD image :
        STRIPISO S 2336 MYIMAGE.IMG MYIMAGE.ISO
        The S option means that STRIPISO must keep the license information.
        2336 is the sector size.
   3. Create a CUE file used for DAO/CDRWIN
        Example :
          FILE C:\CD\MYIMAGE.ISO BINARY
            TRACK 01 MODE2/2336
            INDEX 01 00:00:00
          POSTGAP 00:02:00

          FILE C:\CD\AUDIO1.RAW BINARY
            TRACK 02 AUDIO
            PREGAP 00:02:00
            INDEX 01 00:00:00

        The audio track data must be RAW 16-bit-44Khz-Stereo sample. Note
        that PSX2HD does not perform audio sector copy from the orignal CD
        so you will have to use an external program like Easy CD-DA
        Extractor.
        Note that PSX2HD v1.1 automatically generates a CDRWIN CUEFile for the
        Data track.
   4. When you have made all these steps, you can finally burn your CD with
      CDRWIN/DAO.

8. Known bugs

   - The original CDROM volume name is not extracted correctly. Only the 11
     first characters are retrieved. But in fact, that does not really matter
     because BuildCD don't put back the CD Volume name (or perhaps it's another
     bug of my program).
   - Surely plenty of other ones.

9. Future projects

   - Single file extraction at the command line.
   - Win32 port. I think it should be faster if I used WINASPI32 instead of
     MSCDEX.
   - Perhaps a BuildCD replacement that would directly output ISO CD Images.