I recently came across my old PS1, and i decided to look for my old (and small) collection of games that i had. Sadly, most of them are scratched beyond repair due to storing in terrible conditions.
Since i owned (and tecnically, stil own) those games, and since my PS1 is chipped, i decided to burn the copies on a CD-R. Im currently using a Verbatim CD-R, so i guess it's not bad quality.
After a few tries with ImgBurg (i always did something wrong, and resulted in games not being read by the PS1, or being read only in audio format), i managed to burn a copy of Castelvania:SoTN on a CD-R.
It had a track 1 and track 2, which i "merged" together in one .bin file with a software called "CDMAGE", it gave me another .cue and one .bin, which contained both tracks of the game.
( I actually had to do some really weird stuff with my ps1 to make it load, like turning it upside down and such, but in the end, it loaded correctly).
Now, i got a copy of disk 1 and disk 2 of MGS for the PS1, but both files are in .mdf and .mds.
I tried to burn the .mds (metadata, just like .cue) as i thought that it would burn the .mdf too but, for some reasons, it won't burn the whole thing. It just burns a few things, resulting the PS1 not being able to load it (insert PS1 CD format, red screen).
What can i do?
Could someone give me a clear explaination (pictures and step-by-step would be more appreciate, since i have troubles learning from text without visual examples) on what to do?
And why a lot of .bin and .cue files that i tried to burn didn't work either? (i burned the .cue of course, just as i did with Castelvania, but for some reasons, it didn't work)
Thanks you.