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    Hello ! This is my first post here , and I have small problem
    I've just downloaded Tomb Raider (E) PAL , from this site .

    I extracted it and got these files .



    File in rar is bin.emc file .

    I UnpakkedIso ( using PakkIso 0.4 ) , and got these files



    First File ( Track 01 ) was that bin.emc file . it's now bin ( and other .ape files are too .bin )

    What to do now ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zorlon
    Needed Files (All of these are free tools and you do not need to pay for any of them)
    •7-zip Extract *.7z and *.rar
    •ecm tools extracting and creating *.ecm
    •Monkey's Audio *.ape to *.wav software
    •DAEMON Tools Lite virtual CD drive
    •ImgBurn for burning and re dumping
    Extra's
    •Cue's and Sbi's for any games missing cue sheets, sbi's can be used to aid hacking protection

    This guide will cover all the above software used and point to downloads of the software but you may already have the software installed on your machine so just skip the download and install parts



    7-zip
    Dealing with 7z and rar files


    Go to the 7-zip site and download and run the version designed for your OS.

    Once installed you can then right click on rar and 7z files and select extract here or extract files if you wish to choose your own output folder

    Note that some of these contain 7z files inside of rar files, both of these will need extracting

    Do his now with your downloaded game (do one game disc at a time)


    ecm tools
    Dealing with ecm files


    Download ecm tools and extract this into the same folder that you extracted the above, you can use the same right click method and choose extract files then choose the same folder as the game you extracted.

    Now you should have extra files with you game files including unecm, you can now drag your ecm file and drop it on unecm.

    Unecm should now run automatcly, this can take a small amount of time so just wait for it to complete.

    once fully unecmed you should either have a *.bin file or a *.img file, at this point you may delete the old ecm file.


    Monkey's Audio
    Dealing with ape files, you may skip this totally if your game does not have ape files


    Download and install Monkey's Audio (MAC)

    Run it, now you will see on the left there is a big monkey head that says compress under it, hit the down arrow button on the right of the monkey head and hit Decompress, the Monkey head should change into what looks like a box with arrows pointing away from it

    Now drap and drop all ape files into the big space under "File Name", now you can hit that Decompress button (picture of a box with arros pointing away from it), just wait for it to complete

    Now not only should you have ape files in the folder but now there should be a wav version of every ape file you ran through the program, the ape's can be removed now and you can close the software.


    Cue Missing
    Dealing with games that have no cue or ccd file included.


    Download Cue's and Sbi's and open with 7-zip

    From there you can find the folder that matches your game, you are best off sorting by name in 7-zip.

    Once you find the folder just double click it like you would with any other folder in that folder you should find the missing cue file and maybe an sbi file.

    Drag and drop the cue file to the same folder the other game files are in.

    You can close 7-zip now.


    Faking CD hardware
    Make your computer think you have a new CD/DVD/HD-Rom drive with a disc inserted


    Download DAEMON Tools Lite and install it

    (you may need to reset for this software during the install but the software will tell you if you need to do this)

    Once fully installed there should be a small icon on the right of your task bar a round icon with a single lightning bolt going through it, if not run it manually the first time

    Right click on the Daemon Tools Lite icon on the task bar and move your mouse to Virtual CD/DVD-ROM then move the mouse again to Device 0: [Drive leter] No Media, move the mouse once more to Mount Image and left click on it.

    Now find the folder you have extracted and converted everything in and select the cue or ccd file and click on Open


    Emulation with ePSXe
    Setup ePSXe to read from Virtual drives


    Run ePSXe, Hit Config, Cdrom then Configure.

    On this screen make sure the drive leter is the same as the virtual drives, default is FirstCDRom but that should be your actual CD-Rom Drive not the Virtual one.

    Once you have this setup just click OK till your back on the main program, now to run the disc you have mounted, in ePSXe you just need to hit File then Run CDROM


    Burning to CD-Rom
    Creating a bin+cue CD image from the Virtual drive using imgburn and burn the image.


    NOTE:- if the game does not use wav/ape you can skip steps marked * and make sure the cd image is not mounted

    Download and install ImgBurn then run it

    *Choose Create image file from disc, next under Source choose the virtual drive, unlike your actual drive it has a very strange looking name but the drive leter matches up fine.

    *Look at the Destination and change it if your not happy at where it will save by hitting the small folder icon with the spy glass at the end of it.

    *Just hit that big green play button and wait for it to complete, shouldn't take that long then hit OK when it say it's done.

    *Now thats done you can burn the new image file, click Mode on the top menu and choose Ez-Mode Picker.

    Click Write image file to disc.

    Under Source hit the folder icon with the spy glass at the end and choose your new cue file and hit Open.

    Under Destination make sure your burning drive is selected, this should be selected by default though.

    Under Settings change Write Speed to 1x, this will make the software burn at the slowest speed, though this will almost always be faster than 1x.

    Time to hit that big green play button, you are given extra options while this burns, I'll leave that up to you to choose what you want the software to do after it completes it's burn.

    Once done just hit the big OK and quit the software if you didn't tell it to do so automaticly






    Thats all for the guide, for now, hope this helps.

    TODO

    Add info on fixing cue sheets....

    For now I will say check your cue sheet in notepad and make sure all CDDA (Music) tracks are listed as .wav" WAVE instead of .bin" BINARY
    I will add this later in a easy to understand layout.
    Sorry links are missing when the server went down and no time at the moment to find them, this is just one of the many guides I need to fix/re upload

    Cue's and Sbi's http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L5YJ4KH0
    ecm tools http://www.emuparadise.org/PSX/ecm%20tools.rar
    Monkey's Audio http://www.monkeysaudio.com/

    Thats the harder to find files anyway, daemon tools is easy to find as is 7-zip and imgburn

    You may already have a working bin file for the main game data using the tool that you have already used, it's a new tool to me though being out of the scene for a long time, all you may need is the cue sheet now provided it converted the ape files fine, don't remember if the cue sheets listed bin files or wav files but you could just open up the cue once you get it and if it's full of .wav's just use fine and replace to replace .wav with .bin

    EDIT

    Just try getting the cue's and sbi's file and find the cue sheet in there it does indeed list all the files as .bin files so that alone should fix the problem for you
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    It worked ! Thank you so much .

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    Aragornpl21 Hey could you upload the cue file? That would help out a lot. I'm totally turned off to downloading this game, but I love it so much! Please help out with this request?

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    the cue's are linked in my post

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