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did you know ps2linux has gimp preinstalled? it also containd applications such as xchat, dillo, xterm, and several different window managers (enlightenment, scwm, twm, icewm) as well as cd players and mail clients it also uses gnome and has access to basically all the hardware

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 7h

replaces cdrom: with cdrom:\ replaces cdrom:\\ with cdrom:\ (in case cdrom:\ started proper) removes everything between first and second instance of \ but not the \ themselves removes \\ again works

$BOOT = cdrom:\TEKKEN3\SLUS_004.02;1 BOOT = cdrom:\SLUS_004.02;1 8 SLUS_004.02$

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 8h

simpler

$new code: boot_file=${boot_file//cdrom:/cdrom:\\} # add a \ to cdrom: boot_file=${boot_file//cdrom:\\\\/cdrom:\\} # remove a slash if two slashes are made [ cdrom:\ -> cdrom:\\ ] index=$(echo "${boot_file}" | awk -v tgt="cdrom:\\" '{print index($0, tgt)}') if [[ "${index}" == "0" ]]; then countdown; break; fi game_id=${boot_file:$((${index} + 6)):11} old code: index=$(echo "${boot_file}" | awk -v tgt="cdrom:\\" '{print index($0, tgt)}') if [[ "${index}" == "0" ]]; then index=$(echo "${boot_file}" | awk -v tgt="cdrom:" '{print index($0, tgt)}') # fix issue with SCUS_943.02 and others that say cdrom: instead of cdrom:\ if [[ "${index}" == "0" ]]; then countdown; break; else game_id=${boot_file:$((${index} + 5)):11} fi else game_id=${boot_file:$((${index} + 6)):11} fi$

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 8h

new edge case, apparently sometimes boot file is sometimes stored in sub-folder, easy fix, just pipe it into sed to remove \ and whats in between them (wont work for single slash so if i come across something like cdrom:test\file.elf wont work boot_file=$(echo ${boot_file} | sed 's/\\[^\\]*\\//')

$[07:12:20] - looking for game Setting input-charset to 'UTF-8' from locale. BOOT = cdrom:\TEKKEN3\SLUS_004.02;1 TEKKEN3\SLU ES [7]$ a cdrom of tekken 3 being backed up after implementing the fix

a cdrom of tekken 3 being backed up after implementing the fix

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 12/10/2026

it is going smoothly, tho it takes SO much longer than a ps2 disc to copy and more than this dont read fully cause of scratches and stuff but this is what i did so far, at some point im gonna normalize the directory names

file directory with a bunch of ps1 games

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 12/10/2026

i added 3 things 1. drive detection (i got annoyed that sometimes on replug my drive would become sr1) 2. better detection of boot file stuff since sometimes it would be cdrom: instead of cdrom:\ 3. sometimes when checking disc itd give me an error message now i check for that

$# drive="/dev/sr0" drive_temp=$(lsblk -d -o NAME,TYPE | grep rom) drive="/dev/${drive_temp%% *}" if [[ "${drive}" == "" ]]; then spd-say "No Drive Detected" countdown countdown ~/Desktop/backup-ps1.sh fi$ $#if [[ ${boot_file:0:4} != "BOOT" ]]; then countdown; break; fi #if [[ ${boot_file} != "BOOT"*"="*"cdrom:\\"*"_"*"."* ]]; then countdown; break; fi if [[ ${boot_file} != "BOOT"*"="*"cdrom:"*"_"*"."* ]]; then countdown; break; fi # fix issue with SCUS_943.02 and others that say cdrom: instead of cdrom:\ index=$(echo "${boot_file}" | awk -v tgt="cdrom:\\" '{print index($0, tgt)}') if [[ "${index}" == "0" ]]; then index=$(echo "${boot_file}" | awk -v tgt="cdrom:" '{print index($0, tgt)}') # fix issue with SCUS_943.02 and others that say cdrom: instead of cdrom:\ if [[ "${index}" == "0" ]]; then countdown; break; else game_id=${boot_file:$((${index} + 5)):11} fi else game_id=${boot_file:$((${index} + 6)):11} fi #if [[ ${boot_file: -12: 1} == "\\" ]]; then game_id=${boot_file: -11: 11}; fi # fix issue with SCUS_945.03 and other things that miss a ;1 at the end #if [[ ${boot_file: -13: 1} == "\\" ]]; then game_id=${boot_file: -12: 11}; fi # fix issue with SCUS_945.03 and other things that miss a ;1 at the end #if [[ ${boot_file: -2: 1} == ";" ]]; then game_id=${boot_file: -13: 11}; fi #if [[ ${boot_file: -3: 1} == ";" ]]; then game_id=${boot_file: -14: 11}; fi #if [[ ${boot_file: -4: 1} == ";" ]]; then game_id=${boot_file: -15: 11}; fi #if [[ ${boot_file: -5: 1} == ";" ]]; then game_id=${boot_file: -16: 11}; fi #if [[ ${boot_file: -6: 1} == ";" ]]; then game_id=${boot_file: -17: 11}; fi #if [[ ${boot_file: -7: 1} == ";" ]]; then game_id=${boot_file: -18: 11}; fi #if [[ ${boot_file: -8: 1} == ";" ]]; then game_id=${boot_file: -19: 11}; fi #if [[ ${boot_file: -9: 1} == ";" ]]; then game_id=${boot_file: -20: 11}; fi #if [[ ${boot_file: -10: 1} == ";" ]]; then game_id=${boot_file: -21: 11}; fi$ $boot_file=$(isoinfo -R -i ${drive} -x '/SYSTEM.CNF;1' -ignore-error | xxd -s 0x0 -l 0x10000 -p - | xxd -r -p | tr -d '\0' | head -n 1) echo ${boot_file} | tee /dev/tty | if grep -q "CD-ROM is NOT in ISO 9660 format" -; then spd-say "No Drive Detected" countdown ~/Desktop/backup-ps1.sh fi$

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 11/10/2026

if youre on nextendo feel free to add me SW-9601-8843-3344 nextendo.network

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 11/10/2026

timer my beloved, moving thing my beloved so now: l-ec error detected/ctrl+c same as below but triggered by sigint (or by simulated sigint) copy failed (no cue file, something went wrong): same as below but deletes directory copy finished: ejects disc waits 20 seconds isoinfo command closes tray

timer in output (so badly wanna say "timer in bio")

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 11/10/2026

now if it detects an L-EC error it will trigger a sigint which triggers my trap which ejects disc, waits a moment, erases bad dump, and restarts script, black magic and lots of ducktape

detects a l-ec error in stderr output and commits a ctrl+c

$# while in a read loop sigint doesnt run correctly and fails so using grep cdrdao read-cd --datafile "${target}/${label}.bin" --driver generic-mmc:20000 --read-raw "${target}/${label}.toc" 2>&1 1>con: | if grep -q "Found L-EC error" -; then #cdrdao read-cd --datafile "${target}/${label}.bin" --driver generic-mmc:20000 --read-raw "${target}/${label}.toc" 2>&1 1>con: | while read -r output; do #echo -en "${output}" #if [[ "${output}" == *"Found L-EC error"* ]]; then spd-say "LE-C Error Detected Triggering SIGINT" removal_target="${target}" looking=1 #echo "LE-C Error Detected Triggering SIGINT" kill -INT $$ #fi #done fi$

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 09/10/2026

so coolboarders2 doesnt store the boot file the same as popn cds (using boot = id;1 vs boot=id1;) so complexicity increase a bit, also a quicker check for correct file, im sure ill find many more weird edge cases later

$game_id= boot_file=$(isoinfo -R -i /dev/sr1 -x '/SYSTEM.CNF;1' -ignore-error | xxd -s 0x0 -l 0x10000 -p - | xxd -r -p | tr -d '\0' | head -n 1) echo ${boot_file} if [[ ${boot_file:0:4} != "BOOT" ]]; then countdown; break; fi game_id=${boot_file: -14: 11}$

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 09/10/2026

WE ARE SO BACK so instead of using the same script that everyone keeps using i decided to use a command from a random ahh site [ emulationonmac.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/p... ] and it just worked literally everyone else was saying generic-mmc-raw but generic-mmc:0x20000 fixed it for me

$if [ "${label}" != "" ]; then target="$target_directory/${label}" echo "a" > /dev/null else looking=0 sleep 5 break fi if [ ! -f "$target/${label}.cue" ]; then echo "[$(date '+%T')] - Source: ${label}" echo "[$(date '+%T')] - Target: $target" sleep 1 # cp "$source" "$target" removal_target="${target}" # ~/Desktop/cdrdao.sh --outputdir "${target}" "${label}" if [[ ! -d "${target}" ]]; then mkdir -p "${target}"; fi cdrdao read-cd --datafile "${target}/${label}.bin" --driver generic-mmc:0x20000 --read-raw "${target}/${label}.toc" toc2cue "${target}/${label}.toc" "${target}/${label}.cue" fi if [ -f "$target/${label}.cue" ]; then echo "[$(date '+%T')] - copy finished" # spd-say "copy finished checking dump" spd-say "copy finished change disc" removal_target="nothing" looking=1 sleep 5 else echo "[$(date '+%T')] - copy failed" # spd-say "copy failed" spd-say "copy failed check disc and cable" removal_target="${target}" looking=1 sleep 5 fi if [[ "${removal_target}" != "nothing" ]]; then echo "removing incomplete dump ${removal_target}" #rm -rf "${removal_target}" fi break$

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 09/10/2026

at the very least when i boot them in duckstation they say this and when i dump them with mpf they show a broken playstation logo, the discs are quite literally brand new and my drive supports omnidrive so it shouldnt have trouble reading anything

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 09/10/2026

it only gets worse, it becomes obvious that im very used to making scripts by hand but very unknowledgable at actually coding good really quickly

$game_id=$(isoinfo -R -i /dev/sr0 -x '/SYSTEM.CNF;1' -ignore-error | xxd -s 0xE -l 0xB -p - | xxd -r -p | tr -d '\0') check1=1; check2=1 # echo ${game_id:4:1}${game_id:8:1} if [[ "${game_id:4:1}" == "_" ]]; then check1=0; fi if [[ "${game_id:8:1}" == "." ]]; then check2=0; fi if [[ $(($((${check1} + ${check2})) / 2)) == 1 ]]; then sleep 5; break; fi if [[ "${game_id}" == "" ]]; then sleep 5; break; fi label="$(blkid -o value -s LABEL /dev/sr0)" # echo ${label}; if [[ "${label}" == "" ]]; then label="${game_id:0:4}-${game_id:5:3}${game_id:9:2}"; fi if [[ "${label}" == "-" ]]; then sleep 5; break; fi removal_target="nothing" # echo $label$

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 09/10/2026

and now it dumps both discs without and with labels

detects drive
detects ability to read certain characters out of system.cnf
uses gameid because drive doesnt have label

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 09/10/2026

i have created a very very very stupid way to check if no drive or improper drive is detected it will just loop it may be stupid but it works

$game_id=$(isoinfo -R -i /dev/sr0 -x '/SYSTEM.CNF;1' -ignore-error | xxd -s 0xE -l 0xB -p - | xxd -r -p | tr -d '\0') check1=1; check2=1 if [[ "${game_id:4:1}" == "_" ]]; then check1=0; fi if [[ "${game_id:8:1}" == "." ]]; then check2=0; fi if [[ ! ${check1}${check2} ]]; then break; fi echo ${game_id}; label="$(blkid -o value -s LABEL /dev/sr0)" echo ${label}; if [[ "${label}" == "" ]]; then echo "no label is provided using game id"; label="${game_id:0:4}-${game_id:5:3}${game_id:9:2}"; fi removal_target="nothing" echo ${label};$

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 09/10/2026

also i added a part to automatically start the script again and remove the directory if i ctrl+c (but only if it hasnt finished) its stupid but its my stupid

ctrl c is pressed it then says it is removing a dump and then gives prompt to quit if needed

if sigint (ctrl+c) is pressed it gives ~2 seconds to press ctrl+c to quit otherwise it removes the incomplete dump and then starts itself again

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 09/10/2026

i usually adjust them depending only on how much im frustrated by a tiny thing otherwise i just slap it together and call it finished the psp one is more interesting-ish but also its human made slop

while true
do
while true
do
if [ $looking = 1 ]
then
echo "[$(date '+%T')] - looking for game"
fi

cd "/run/media/$USER/"
source="$(echo /run/media/$USER/**/*UMD9660.ISO*)"

$if [ -f "$source" ]; then cd "${source:0: -11}" target="$target_directory/${PWD/\/run\/media\/$USER\//}.ISO" echo "a" > /dev/null else looking=0 sleep 0.5 break fi if [ -f "$target" ]; then # echo "[$(date '+%T')] - checking game" echo "[$(date '+%T')] - checking game you can change game because rsync verifies" if cmp -s "$source" "$target"; then echo "[$(date '+%T')] - copy match change disc" spd-say "copy match change disc" sleep 5 else echo "[$(date '+%T')] - checking game status" # make sure disc is gone before checking that disc is there sleep 5 if [ -f "$source" ]; then echo "[$(date '+%T')] - copy mismatch" spd-say "copy mismatch" rm "$target" sleep 5 else echo "[$(date '+%T')] - disc removed" fi break fi # echo "[$(date '+%T')] - $target exists" # sleep 5 break else echo "[$(date '+%T')] - Source: $source" echo "[$(date '+%T')] - Target: $target" sleep 1 # cp "$source" "$target" rsync -ah --info=progress2 "$source" "$target" 2> /dev/null fi if [ -f "$target" ]; then echo "[$(date '+%T')] - copy finished" # spd-say "copy finished checking dump" spd-say "copy finished change disc" looking=1 else echo "[$(date '+%T')] - copy failed" # spd-say "copy failed" spd-say "copy failed check disc and cable" looking=1 sleep 5 fi break done done$

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 09/10/2026

its this easy to detect a drive label, idk why the script i used ( web.archive.org/web/20260304... ) doesnt do it, hence why i made this instead [blkid -o value -s LABEL /dev/sr0] checks if target cue exists if not it runs the script to prepare it with the drive name then goes into sleep and waits

checks if cue exists then displays a label and target and runs a copy to output the contents and create a bin cue then gives feedback depending on how it goes

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 09/10/2026

back on my bs, slightly modified version of my psp backup script that will keep checking a drive and check if a .cue (the process finished) exists and look again if it doesnt i am lazy.

backup script detects coolboarders and automatically starts dumping it with cdrdao and then conveerting it to bin/cue using cue2toc

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 07/10/2026

i dont have much interest in the othrr two but this section is neatfor every title on it theres generally a collection section where you can get things like pictures and media and stuff of games

ring with accessory info and software sections

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Flan @mariomasta64.me · 07/10/2026

so i had to reserve space and then make the linux smaller than free space but all is well now now to continue the last 4 most are very stubby (tbh they arent remarkable much) but scej channel has an online golf game, notes in image alt and then next will be showing some the playstation now

playstation channel, will talk in next one

scej channel (lets you do a few things like a golf game, would let you download things but seems almost everything is under construction)

capcom channel (also not functional yet)

koei / gamecity (basically non-functional channel, very smash bros feeling)

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