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#Retroarch psp format install#
#Retroarch psp format full#
#Retroarch psp format code#

It will also compress the game files to reduce file size, but bear in mind that this is a lossy compression, meaning that you cannot go back to a different file type after converting to PBP (for example, you can switch back and forth with CHD files). Many PS1 games came in multiple discs, and there is a special tool that will let you convert multi-disc PS1 games into one single PBP file. If using an older version of MacOS, you may have to use MacPorts which contains an older version of CHDman (thanks Lourens for the tip).

#Retroarch psp format code#

This code above could be altered for ISO files by using “*.iso” instead of “*.cue”.Thanks to the Redditors from this post for figuring all this out.Once Terminal is pointed to the folder and you have all your BIN/CUE files inside, copy and paste the following code:įor file in *.cue do chdman createcd -i "$.chd" done.

#Retroarch psp format full#

The full command should be “cd (name of path)” but without the quotes.

Drag the folder name from the Path Bar in your Finder window into the Terminal window.

To find your folder path, navigate to the folder with your games, and make sure you can see the Path Bar at the bottom of your Finder window (if you don’t, go to Finder > View > Show Path Bar).

The easiest way to do that is to type “cd” (without the quotes) and the path of your folder.

Open a Terminal window and change your directory to the folder that hosts all those BIN/CUE files.

On your Mac, create a folder and put all of your BIN/CUE files inside.

To do so, open a Terminal window and type:

#Retroarch psp format install#

Install rom-tools on your Mac via Homebrew.

This code is written for bin/cue files but you could do the same with ISO files (see the bottom of the instructions).

When complete, you can read a report to verify that all CHD files were created successfully.Ĭheck out this handy tool called the tochd converter.Ĭonverting game files to CHD format on a Mac is tricky, but very possible.

Select your desired Output Folder and then click the “Create CHD” button.

These file types can be cue, toc, gdi, iso, or zip files. Choose the files you want to convert to CHD.

Open the namDHC.exe file and select “Add files” from the Input Files section.

You can place these files wherever you would like.

Download the chdman.exe and namDHC.exe files from the latest namDHC GitHub release.That’s what we are going to use in this guide. Luckily, there is now a program that uses a graphical user interface (GUI) to navigate CHDman, and it is called namDHC. If you would like to try your hand at it, here is a pretty good guide. The MAME-developed tool for CHD conversion is called CHDman, which works well but requires some knowledge of command line to get working. If you happen to have only BIN files without their corresponding CUE file, use this tool to easily generate CUE files. The most common file type to convert to CHD are BIN/CUE files.