Ryan Paul Fialcowitz

These sorts of emulators, to my understanding, strive for technical accuracy above all- so I thought it had a fair chance of working. But I was pretty sure it was going to be one of those things were it either worked right away or I'd make my self nuts never figuring it out. Luckily, I now have an alternative method of achieving the same goal. Thanks again for your help- I really appreciate it.

All the disk based games are in the cue/bin format. However, the bins are labeled as tracks which is why I asked about that earlier. I'm not sure how to output a log but if I figure it out I'll let you know.

RetroArch is a fontend of a large number of emulators- all run through RetroArch. It's basically a one stop shop for everything emulation related. I'm running a Playstation game- Monster Rancher. The gimmick of this game is that you can acquire different monsters by switching out the game C.D. with various Playstation/Music C.D.'s and some can only be gotten by specific C.D.'s. So, I bought several hoping to make them into images because, for some reason, RetroArch does support loading physical content like an actual disk. When I try to load an image I've made the program crashes with a runtime error. And given that no one on their forums is responding to my thread I'm not sure I'm going to find a solution. However, it appears you can use GameShark codes, which RetroArch does support, to accomplish the same goal. I had hoped to do it the "old fashioned" way but at this point I don't see how I could get this to work if either program is even capable of doing what I'd like. So, I think I'm good for right now- this method will save me from having to hunt down a bunch of old C.D.'s on the internet which I suppose is a good thing. Lastly, I'd like to reiterate I've never had problems making images of D.V.D.'s- program works like a dream in that department and that's what I would normally use it for. I always tend to have the weird computer problems no one can figure out! I really appreciate you guys taking the time to help me out with this and I wish you both the best of luck!

Yeah, I'm right there with you. But, ultimately, I don't need to mount them in Windows- that's just for testing. I need to mount them in RetroArch- which isn't working. My hope is that I'm doing something wrong and eventually I'll figure out how to make that work. So, even if Daemon Tools did work I'm not sure that would bring me closer to a revelation. Finding an audio C.D. image that I can get to mount in RetroArch would be good though! I do, truly, appreciate all the help.

VLC, my media player, will play every other virtual disk image I throw at, as well as every C.D. I've tried to make one of but not the resultant images. I'm thinking that's were the problem lies as VLC does not require an external mounting of the image it just loads it itself.

So, you're thinking that the fault is with WinCDEmu? It's never been a problem before. Perhaps I should upload one of my cue/bins and see if it runs for you good folks?

Just the corrupt image warning on load with the cue file. The ccd one mounted, but then I got similar message from Windows when I tried to access it. It seems clear to me that I'm doing something wrong as neither of you are telling me this can't be done. Is there some specific setting I need or something?

As has been pointed out to me, Windows won't mount the cue file- I'm using WinCDEmu. Which works for everything- except the the cue files I create apparently. I primarily use IMGBurn to make iso's of D.V.D.'s and it works fine, even with WinCDEmu. ; //****************************************\\ ; ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 - Log ; Sunday, 25 March 2018, 21:38:51 ; \\****************************************// ; ; I 21:15:07 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 21:15:07 Microsoft Windows 8 Professional x64 Edition (6.2, Build 9200) I 21:15:07 Total Physical Memory: 20,953,204 KiB - Available: 17,042,324 KiB I 21:15:07 Initialising SPTI... I 21:15:07 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 21:15:08 -> Drive 1 - Info: HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW UH12NS40 1.00 (E:) (ATA) I 21:15:08 Found 1 BD-ROM XL/DVD±RW! I 21:20:09 Operation Started! I 21:20:09 Source Device: [3:0:0] HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW UH12NS40 1.00 (E:) (ATA) I 21:20:09 Source Media Type: CD-ROM I 21:20:10 Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 4x, 8x, 10x, 16x, 24x, 32x, 40x I 21:20:10 Source Media Supported Write Speeds: 48x I 21:20:10 Source Media Sectors: 179,620 I 21:20:10 Source Media Size: 422,466,240 bytes I 21:20:10 Source Media File System(s): None I 21:20:10 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / 8x I 21:20:10 Destination File: C:\Users\Ryan Paul Fialcowitz\Desktop\Image.img I 21:20:10 Destination Free Space: 453,469,655,040 Bytes (442,841,460.00 KiB) (432,462.36 MiB) (422.33 GiB) I 21:20:10 Destination File System: NTFS I 21:20:10 File Splitting: Auto I 21:21:01 Read Speed - Effective: 8x I 21:21:02 Reading Session 1 of 1... (12 Tracks, LBA: 0 - 179619, MCN: 0075678179624) I 21:21:02 Reading Track 1 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 0 - 10604) I 21:21:20 Reading Track 2 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 10605 - 27059) I 21:21:47 Reading Track 3 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 27060 - 50561) I 21:22:25 Reading Track 4 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 50562 - 64719) I 21:22:48 Reading Track 5 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 64720 - 76081) I 21:23:07 Reading Track 6 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 76082 - 92356) I 21:23:33 Reading Track 7 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 92357 - 106639) I 21:23:56 Reading Track 8 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 106640 - 120499) I 21:24:19 Reading Track 9 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 120500 - 135469) I 21:24:43 Reading Track 10 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 135470 - 150029) I 21:25:07 Reading Track 11 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 150030 - 163791) I 21:25:29 Reading Track 12 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 163792 - 179619) I 21:25:56 Exporting Graph Data... I 21:25:56 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Ryan Paul Fialcowitz\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\HL-DT-ST_BDDVDRW_UH12NS40_1.00_SUNDAY-MARCH-25-2018_9-20_PM_N-A.ibg I 21:25:56 Export Successfully Completed! I 21:25:56 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:05:45 I 21:25:56 Average Read Rate: 1,195 KiB/s (6.0x) - Maximum Read Rate: 1,461 KiB/s (7.4x) I 21:38:49 Close Request Acknowledged I 21:38:49 Closing Down... I 21:38:51 Shutting down SPTI... I 21:38:51 ImgBurn closed! ; ; ; //****************************************\\ ; ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 - Log ; Sunday, 25 March 2018, 16:56:35 ; \\****************************************// ; ; I 16:56:31 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 16:56:31 Microsoft Windows 8 Professional x64 Edition (6.2, Build 9200) I 16:56:31 Total Physical Memory: 20,953,204 KiB - Available: 17,476,484 KiB I 16:56:31 Initialising SPTI... I 16:56:31 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 16:56:32 -> Drive 1 - Info: HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW UH12NS40 1.00 (E:) (ATA) I 16:56:32 Found 1 BD-ROM XL/DVD±RW! I 16:56:35 Close Request Acknowledged I 16:56:35 Closing Down... I 16:56:35 Shutting down SPTI... I 16:56:35 ImgBurn closed! ; ; ; //****************************************\\ ; ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 - Log ; Sunday, 25 March 2018, 12:12:54 ; \\****************************************// ; ; I 12:06:33 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 12:06:33 Microsoft Windows 8 Professional x64 Edition (6.2, Build 9200) I 12:06:33 Total Physical Memory: 20,953,204 KiB - Available: 16,840,316 KiB I 12:06:33 Initialising SPTI... I 12:06:33 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 12:06:34 -> Drive 1 - Info: HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW UH12NS40 1.00 (E:) (ATA) I 12:06:34 Found 1 BD-ROM XL/DVD±RW! I 12:07:03 Operation Started! I 12:07:04 Source Device: [3:0:0] HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW UH12NS40 1.00 (E:) (ATA) I 12:07:04 Source Media Type: CD-ROM I 12:07:04 Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 4x, 8x, 10x, 16x, 24x, 32x, 40x I 12:07:04 Source Media Supported Write Speeds: 48x I 12:07:04 Source Media Sectors: 179,620 I 12:07:04 Source Media Size: 422,466,240 bytes I 12:07:04 Source Media File System(s): None I 12:07:04 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / 8x I 12:07:04 Destination File: C:\Users\Ryan Paul Fialcowitz\Desktop\Test.bin I 12:07:04 Destination Free Space: 454,756,069,376 Bytes (444,097,724.00 KiB) (433,689.18 MiB) (423.52 GiB) I 12:07:04 Destination File System: NTFS I 12:07:04 File Splitting: Auto I 12:07:55 Read Speed - Effective: 8x I 12:07:56 Reading Session 1 of 1... (12 Tracks, LBA: 0 - 179619, MCN: 0075678179624) I 12:07:56 Reading Track 1 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 0 - 10604) I 12:08:14 Reading Track 2 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 10605 - 27059) I 12:08:41 Reading Track 3 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 27060 - 50561) I 12:09:19 Reading Track 4 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 50562 - 64719) I 12:09:42 Reading Track 5 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 64720 - 76081) I 12:10:01 Reading Track 6 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 76082 - 92356) I 12:10:27 Reading Track 7 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 92357 - 106639) I 12:10:50 Reading Track 8 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 106640 - 120499) I 12:11:13 Reading Track 9 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 120500 - 135469) I 12:11:37 Reading Track 10 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 135470 - 150029) I 12:12:01 Reading Track 11 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 150030 - 163791) I 12:12:23 Reading Track 12 of 12... (AUDIO/2352, LBA: 163792 - 179619) I 12:12:50 Exporting Graph Data... I 12:12:50 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Ryan Paul Fialcowitz\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\HL-DT-ST_BDDVDRW_UH12NS40_1.00_SUNDAY-MARCH-25-2018_12-07_PM_N-A.ibg I 12:12:50 Export Successfully Completed! I 12:12:50 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:05:45 I 12:12:50 Average Read Rate: 1,195 KiB/s (6.0x) - Maximum Read Rate: 1,460 KiB/s (7.4x) I 12:12:54 Close Request Acknowledged I 12:12:54 Closing Down... I 12:12:54 Shutting down SPTI... I 12:12:54 ImgBurn closed!

Both RetroArch & WinCDEmu both explicitly support cue/bin files. So, I just wanted to test one made by someone else to see if I was somehow doing something wrong. That said I will try making a new image in that new format and see if that changes anything. Thanks. I'll let you know how it goes. Edit Alright, I tried enabling the ccd option and when making it I selected img. In the end I got an cue, ccd & img so I think I might have done something wrong. Windows could mount the ccd but then didn't know what it was. So, progress- I guess?

Would it be possible for you to post one of your working audio C.D. images for me to test- it might help eliminate possible problems. If not, do you know of any such resources online? I can't imagine audio C.D. images are very popular online but I'm at my wit's end on this issue.

IMGBurn won't produce an audio C.D. image in the iso format- it'll change it to cue/bin. I created the image by just selecting Create Image From Disk- is there more to it then that? Is IMGBurn not the best solution for this task?

I'm getting Unknown or corrupt image file! when I try to load the cue with WinCDEmu. I tried other cue's and iso's and they mounted fine. The C.D.'s I've tried play fine on their own, so what could I be doing wrong?

I wouldn't think it's corrupt, but VLC associates the cue file format. What other reason could there be but to play bin files? Unless cue files have another use? I know it can play iso files so it doesn't seem like a stretch.

Thank you, I'll give that a try- but as VLC won't play I'm not holding out much hope. I appreciate the help.

It's a front end of a series of emulators, which in themselves should be able to run an audio C.D.- but you're right I can't be certain. What would be the best way to test whether the image is good or not? I tested the C.D. which works fine.