Cannot load images properly

[Arkillo1985]

Hi all,

I'm new on the forums, but I've been on the emulation for a while now. Regardless of this, now I'm having a few issues making some of the isos to work.
Thing is as follows (I'll take the last game I downloaded from here as an example):

I downloaded Real Bout Garou Densetsu Special Dominated Mind on the PSone isos section. After that I proceeded to unrar the image as usual and I unpack it with pakkiso. When I take a look at the files that came out of the .rar file I found that there are 28 .bin files and 1 .cue file.
Usually, in the past I used to have 1 .bin and 1 .cue when it came to PSone games, but now it seems they are divided into this way.
Now, when I try to play the game through ePsxe 1.8 and try to load the image, it takes the first .bin, but the game runs without music (I suppose those are the tracks divided into the other 27 .bin files) and if I do it with the .cue file, it doesn't even start.
I've also tried to convert the whole thing into an only .iso file, but I face the same problem: iso will be recognized by the emulator and game starts, but still no music. I suppose this happens as Ultraiso only takes the first .bin file (biggest one in size) to convert it into an .iso image, but does not recognize the .cue in order to take the rest of the tracks.

My question is the following:

- Is there any way to revert this process and make it only in 1 .bin and 1 .cue or 1 .iso file? I know this can be done as I have Castlevania SOTN on .iso format and I'm able to play it perfectly fine if I mount it directly on the emulator as much as in the virtual drive.
- If so... which tools are necessary and which steps are needed? (there's no need to explain everything from scratch, I know there are tutorials already, but I have done searching for 4 hours now with no results).

I'd be grateful if you can tell me!

Thanx in advance!

[well ladeda]

Hmm thats interesting. Im seeing the exact same thing u are. It seems that this specific game was uh, hmm how do u say it. Packaged? IDK. But I can't even get the game to play. Tho it could be my emulator isn't working. I don't have any ps1 roms or files. Currently downloading one for a test. Its not all ps1 games that are this way tho, its unique to this game. Not sure y, but the problem is not on ur end. And sorry to say but in order to make it into 1 bin and 1 cue file, would require re-encoding the entire thing. Which is a pain in the butt.

[Arkillo1985]

Yep... I know. It's kinda weird. And to be honest, I don't know how to make it work. It doesn't matter which image I mount either on the virtual drive or emulator... I get it working, but no sound.
If there's any way I can just put all files within an iso file, it gets resolved. I know it because Castlevania is within an only iso file and works perfectly fine. I even manage to make Castlevania work on Saturn emulator (in my opinion, Saturn emulator is WAY behind ePsxe).
If someone knows a way to solve this, just shoot it.
And ladeda, let's hope we can find a solution

[MaslowK]

I've also tried to convert the whole thing into an only .iso file, but I face the same problem: iso will be recognized by the emulator and game starts, but still no music.

From what I understand, the .iso format has issues with multi-track games, hence the lack of music after conversion. One thing you could try is mounting the original .cue file on a virtual drive, then using disc image software (ultraiso likely has the option) to create a single new .bin/.cue from the virtual drive (using whatever disc rip option your software has).

If you end up needing different software, you can use imgburn; http://download.imgburn.com/SetupImgBurn_2.5.8.0.exe . Watch for extra toolbars etc in the installer (choose Custom instead of Express etc). Once you have your .cue mounted, load imgburn and click the "Create image file from disc" button. Under Source, select the virtual drive and then click the disc icon near the bottom.

[Zorlon]

As above but if you have daemon tools it should work directly from the Virtual drive anyway

By far the easiest and quickest way to convert to a single bin+Cue is via ISObuster that is free

A quick an easy guide for doing that can be found at http://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?t=40611 this guide includes the software needed

My Ecm & Ape guide goes through a different method and tells you just to mound the CD image

In ePSXe though set the sound plugin to use the ePSXe core SPU