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Burn Duo-R/PCE-CD/tg16 CD discs in Linux
#!/usr/bin/env bash
_infile="$1"
_basename="${_infile%%.zip}"
_tocfile="${_basename}".toc
CUECONVERT=cueconvert
unzip -tq "${_infile}" || exit 1
mkdir -p "${_basename}"
cd "${_basename}"
unzip ../"${_infile}"
_cuefile="$(find ./ -iname '*.cue')"
"${CUECONVERT}" -i cue "${_cuefile}" > "${_tocfile}"
# Kind of gnarly sed command
sed -E -i ':a ; $!N ; s/TRACK MODE1_RAW\s+FILE/TRACK MODE1_RAW\nDATAFILE/ ; ta ; P ; D' "${_tocfile}"
cdrdao simulate --driver generic-mmc \
--swap \
--speed 16 \
"${_tocfile}" || exit 1
cdrdao write --driver generic-mmc \
--swap \
--speed 16 \
"${_tocfile}" || exit 1
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jjwatt commented Dec 19, 2019

Oh, and being the first consoles to use CDs...the music in Gate of Thunder really is dope!

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jjwatt commented Dec 19, 2019

Sample run (I changed to do the real write at 32x, though, just to see how it worked):

$ ~/consolehacking/burnDuo.bash ./Lords\ of\ Thunder\ \(USA\).zip 
No errors detected in compressed data of ./Lords of Thunder (USA).zip.
Archive:  .././Lords of Thunder (USA).zip
TORRENTZIPPED-FBDF10AF
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 01).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 02).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 03).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 04).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 05).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 06).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 07).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 08).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 09).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 10).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 11).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 12).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 13).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 14).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 15).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 16).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 17).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 18).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 19).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 20).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 21).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 22).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA) (Track 23).bin  
  inflating: Lords of Thunder (USA).cue  
Cdrdao version 1.2.3 - (C) Andreas Mueller <andreas@daneb.de>
/dev/sr0: PLEXTOR DVDR   PX-Q840U       Rev: 1.05
Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC - Version 2.0 (options 0x0000)

Starting write simulation at speed 16...
Pausing 10 seconds - hit CTRL-C to abort.
Process can be aborted with QUIT signal (usually CTRL-\).
WARNING: No super user permission to setup real time scheduling.
Turning BURN-Proof on
Enabling JustSpeed.
Writing track 01 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...
Writing track 02 (mode MODE1_RAW/MODE1_RAW )...
Writing track 03 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...
Writing track 04 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...
Writing track 05 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...
Writing track 06 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...
Writing track 07 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...
Writing track 08 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...
Writing track 09 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...
Writing track 10 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...
Writing track 11 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 12 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 13 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 14 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 15 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 16 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 17 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 18 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 19 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 20 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 21 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 22 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 23 (mode MODE1_RAW/MODE1_RAW )...
Wrote 553 of 553 MB (Buffers 100%  99%).
Wrote 246869 blocks. Buffer fill min 93%/max 100%.
Flushing cache...
Simulation finished successfully.
Cdrdao version 1.2.3 - (C) Andreas Mueller <andreas@daneb.de>                                            
/dev/sr0: PLEXTOR DVDR   PX-Q840U       Rev: 1.05                                                        
Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC - Version 2.0 (options 0x0000)                                          
                                                                                                         
Starting write at speed 32...                                                                            
Pausing 10 seconds - hit CTRL-C to abort.                                                                
Process can be aborted with QUIT signal (usually CTRL-\).                                                
WARNING: No super user permission to setup real time scheduling.                                         
Turning BURN-Proof on                                                                                    
Enabling JustSpeed.                                                                                      
Executing power calibration...                                                                           
Power calibration successful.                                                                            
Writing track 01 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...                                                                  
Writing track 02 (mode MODE1_RAW/MODE1_RAW )...                                                          
Writing track 03 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...                                                                  
Writing track 04 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...                                                                  
Writing track 05 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...
Writing track 06 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...
Writing track 07 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...
Writing track 08 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...
Writing track 09 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...
Writing track 10 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )...
Writing track 11 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 12 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 13 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 14 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 15 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 16 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 17 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 18 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 19 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 20 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 21 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 22 (mode AUDIO/AUDIO )....
Writing track 23 (mode MODE1_RAW/MODE1_RAW )...
Wrote 553 of 553 MB (Buffers 100%  99%).
Wrote 246869 blocks. Buffer fill min 93%/max 100%.
Flushing cache...
Writing finished successfully.

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jjwatt commented Dec 19, 2019

So, when I originally wrote these without --swap I just heard noise for music tracks. Here's the relevant section of the cdrdao man page that lead me to suspect something like this, in the section about the toc language/file format:

              Audio files may have raw or WAVE format with 16 bits per sample, 44.1 kHz sampling rate,
              stereo. Raw files must have the layout 'MSBLeft  LSBLeft  MSBRight  LSBRight  ...'  (big
              endian byte order). WAVE files are expected to have little endian byte order. The option
              --swap reverses the expected byte order for all raw and WAVE files. Only filenames  with
              a  ".wav"  ending are treated as WAVE files, all other names are assumed to be raw audio
              files. Use tools like sox(1) to convert other file formats to supported formats.

So, either it's misinterpreting these *.bin files as WAV (possibly due to the way the cue file is converted to toc) or it's raw audio data ripped as little endian that cdrdao is assuming is big endian and reversing it normally (when we don't use --swap). Heh. It's the nature of endianness that it's hard to tell, but I should be able to compare my two versions and dig around to find out. I've seen recommendations on forums for PSX and PCE CD-ROM ripping to be done with a similar "reverse" flag (driver flag 0x2 or something in generic-mmc on cdrdao), so it could be that these were ripped in reverse to begin with :).

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jjwatt commented Dec 20, 2019

Oh yeah. I'm guessing these work with emulators and that those way be the main target and not making real physical CDs. Would also be educational to experiment with mednafen and the originals compared with a rip of my build.

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jjwatt commented Dec 20, 2019

SoX is awesome. Gave me a big clue right in the manual.

.cdda, .cdr

‘Red Book’ Compact Disc Digital Audio (raw audio). CDDA has two audio channels formatted as 16-bit signed integers (big endian)at a sample rate of 44.1 kHz. The number of (stereo) samples in each CDDA track is always a multiple of 588.

Looking forward to digging into it more later. I'm beat today.

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jjwatt commented Dec 22, 2019

mystery has been solved. The bin tracks are raw 16-bit CD PCM in le. SoX plays them when I give it the right parameters (no headers, remember? So I have to tell it 2 channels, 16 bit, 48k (44.1)--basically what a CD is). So, in this case, whoever or whatever software ripped these from the CD did the byteswap. It's interesting because the dumpers/archivers who made these think that they're perfect rips ;). They're not if they're byte swapped, ya know? Anyway, so cdrdao assumed that they were in big endian format because that's the RedBook CD Audio spec for raw PCM digital sound, and it just happily burned them without doing the byte swap. Telling cdrdao to --swap is actually doing the right thing and turning them into big endian samples and writing them to the disc.

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Hey, this worked perfectly! Thank you!

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