It's necessary to find an optical drive capable of reading the CDs used as PlayStation games. It's also necessary to get OpenEmu (free) and set it up to play PlayStation games. This may require finding its appropriate BIOS files (check its settings). Otherwise, finding CD images for games which you own online is possible and left as a risk for the reader to take.
- For OpenEmu to read and use a PlayStation game, it must exist as a file on the computer. If you have a set of BIN/CUE files, skip to step two.
- The entirety of the CD's binary data must be ripped to a binary file. Use a command like "
dd if=/dev/disk2 of='~/Downloads/Final Fantasy VII (USA) (Disc 1).bin' bs=2048 conv=sync,notrunc
".- (Here, "
/dev/disk2
" refers to a specific device on my computer. Open the Disk Utility on yours, find your optical drive, and find out what it's called. If it's "disk3", use "/dev/disk3
" instead. If you don't have an optical drive, this is a non-star
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- The entirety of the CD's binary data must be ripped to a binary file. Use a command like "