Combining multi-disc game ISO's into one file?

[dschulpius]

I have several games that have two discs. Is there a methods of creating a single ISO containing all info into one ISO? I know I read how to do this somewhere on this forum but I cant find it now. Can someone point the way or tell me how to do it?

Thanks, Dave

[cz2000]

ISO's for what system? Anyway whatever the case it will be a difficult task, and every game will be different.

I was thinking of doing this for my 2 disc PSX isos but it very involved / difficult / time consuming so I just gave up

[dschulpius]

  cz2000 said:

ISO's for what system? Anyway whatever the case it will be a difficult task, and every game will be different.

I was thinking of doing this for my 2 disc PSX isos but it very involved / difficult / time consuming so I just gave up

Yes, from what I remember from the post I read your right about being involved. I think it involved mounting one image with Daemon Tools then going through a bunch of other steps after mounting the second image. The system is just images of PC games. Doss and Windows formats.

It's probabley better just mounting the second disc image when asked for Disk 2 and launching it after the first part of the game from disk 1 is complete.

Thanks, Dave

[bkenobi]

There was discussion about combining 2 ISOs into a single ISO so that you could load it up easier. I think the one game that people tried this technique on first sorta worked, but not exactly. I haven't heard any more discussion about it here, so I think people who have this problem just save prior to swapping discs. The disc swap is essentially quiting the game and starting the game from the second disc image.

[LucasBarton]

I had asked about this before but never found a solution. I was trying to figure out a way to play games like Metal Gear Solid for the PSX that have no pre-disk swap save because there is no way through GameEX to swap disks that I know of. In ePSXe, there is a feature to swap disks easily through the emu, but there isn't any way to activate it through GameEX that I know of. That was why I was trying to figure out a way to combine both ISOs into one.

[dschulpius]

  bkenobi said:

There was discussion about combining 2 ISOs into a single ISO so that you could load it up easier. I think the one game that people tried this technique on first sorta worked, but not exactly. I haven't heard any more discussion about it here, so I think people who have this problem just save prior to swapping discs. The disc swap is essentially quiting the game and starting the game from the second disc image.

This is exactly my problem. I'm not sure how to set up Gamex to start up the second disc. Do I just mount the CD image with Daemon Tools with a command line like this? :

daemon.exe -mount 0,"J:\Lucas\Grim Fandango\Game\Disk2\Grim Fandango - Disc 2.nrg"

Or do I need to set it up as a different Emulator and start up the game again with the command line and mount the image in the Launch before line in the Gamex config?

I now have it set up as a different Emulator, Here is my .ini as I have it now but dont know if it will work till I get to the end of disk one:

[Emulator_22]

Enabled=True

STARTPAGENAME=Grim Fandango (Disk 2)

TITLETEXT=Grim Fandango (Disk 2)

StartPageLogo=

ROMFilter=*.lnk

RomPath=J:\Lucas\Grim Fandango\Game\Disk2

SnapPath=

TitlePath=

BoxPath=

CartPath=

ManualPath=

ControlPanelPath=

InstructionsPath=

WorkingPath=J:\DAEMON

MapKeys=

WaitBeforeKeys=

SendKeys=

ReplaceDash=

ReplaceUnder=

Capitals=True

RemoveBrackets=True

ShowDesktop=False

Debug=

MAPFile=

AlsoLaunch=

Command=daemon.exe -mount 0,"J:\Lucas\Grim Fandango\Game\Disk2\Grim Fandango - Disc 2.nrg"

OLDatZip=

LaunchBefore=

LaunchAfter=J:\daemon\daemon.exe -unmount 0

configFile=[Mapping Off] Exit (ENTER, ALT+F4)

ExcludedFiles=

CustomBackground=

PlayMusic=

DontShowInfo=

PlaySelectionMusic=

SelectionMusicFolder=

PCGame=

DATABASE=

GamesIn7Zips=

PlayInScreenSaver=

ShowMostPlayed=

RandomMostPlayed=

CDCheck=

CDCheckFile=

[GENERAL]

DumbyValue=

Thanks for the help. I think I'll start a new post under this subject. Hope that doesn't screw things up.

Dave

[Stub]

I havent set it up yet, but if you mounted both disks to different drives at startup is there a way to get the emu to find both?

[dschulpius]

  Stub said:

I havent set it up yet, but if you mounted both disks to different drives at startup is there a way to get the emu to find both?

I do know that when playing a game off a real CD ROM using a real CD drive the game wont see the second disk inserted unless you use the same CD drive you installed from and are playing the game from. My guess is that I'll have to use the same virtual drive I've mounted the image to that I'm playing the game from. I'll probabley have to unmount disk 1 image when it askes for disk 2 and then mount disk 2 image. My guess is that the game will pick up the second image mounted and start up play from there. Just like it were a real CD ROM in a real CD ROM drive. Of course this is just a guess and games probably load the second disk differently. I wont know till I get to that point.

Thanks, Dave