This guide will teach you how to copy the data from your physical game discs and make legal, digital disc image files for personal use on your computer. Although emulators often support physical discs, they’ll wear down quicker and the game will take longer to load. Also, Severed Chains will not support physical discs. Be sure to make legal backups of your game discs!

What You Need

• An official, physical copy of the game “Legend of Dragoon” (4 discs)
• Software (such as IMGBurn) that can rip the disc data to your computer

Instructions

1. Download a disc-ripping software if you haven’t already. Then, run it.
2. Insert Legend of Dragoon (Disc 1) into an optical drive on your computer (CD-ROM drive, DVD drive, etc.).
3. Follow the software’s instructions on how to rip a disc image.
4. Security (optional but recommended): Compare your ripped disc image’s hash value to the official hashes on redump.org. You can check the hash of your file with this guide. On Redump, make sure you find and select the regional release pertaining to your copy of the game. If the hashes match, your disc image is perfect and shouldn’t throw any errors.
5. Repeat for the next three game discs.

Note for emulator usage: most emulators are looking for a specific file format such as .bin. If so, you’ll probably need to include corresponding .cue files, which are hopefully created for you by the disc-ripping software. If not, you can create your own CUE files in a couple minutes with a text editor. Here is a guide for that.

If your software of choice is creating “.iso” files but your emulator wants bin/cue pairs, it’s really easy to convert them. Just rename the .iso extension to .bin. Conversely, if your software wants .iso files and you’ve got a set of bin/cue pairs, just rename the .bin extension to .iso and leave the cue files behind (.iso doesn’t need them).