Burning Final Fight CD

[AgentLozen]

Hi everyone!  I need a little help with a Sega CD burning project I'm working on.

I want to burn Final Fight CD Arcade Recolor (the hack) to a CD for use in my North American Sega CD.  Before I do that, I'd also like to replace the audio to the game with the Double Impact soundtrack from a few years ago.

I have ConvSCD to change the region but it doesn't work on .BIN files.  I have SegaCueMaker (I got it working in Windows 10 64-Bit) but it doesn't work on .BIN files.  I use PowerISO to take the .bin file apart.  I downloaded the game from the internet in a .bin +.cue format.  It plays in KegaFusion just fine but has otherwise been very difficult to work with.

I converted all of the MP3s from the Double Impact soundtrack to 16-bit wav and tried to replace them inside of PowerISO but it just throws errors and otherwise WON'T run in KegaFusion anymore. 

Has anyone succeeded in doing this before?  What is the proper procedure or best way to convert the game region and replace it's soundtrack? 

Thanks for any help you can give me.

[Jorpho]

Are you using this patch?  Then the first thing to do is to apply it to the .BIN, since the patch says it's supposed to be applied to the .BIN.

If you want to replace the soundtrack, then you have to convert the BIN+CUE into ISO+WAV+CUE , replace the WAV files with the new soundtrack, rewrite the CUE to correspond to the length of the new tracks, and then burn the new .CUE file.  There was some discussion of this recently in this thread. Converting to ISO+WAV+CUE will also let you use ConvSCD, apparently.

So, I'm not sure exactly what you're doing with PowerISO to "take the .bin file apart".  If you were ripping an actual CD, you could use TurboRIP as discussed in that other thread.  But since you have a BIN+CUE, it looks like you can use BinChunker, aka bchunk.
http://psx-scene.com/forums/f150/convert-ps2-cd-bin-image-iso-opl-tutorial-104740-print/index4.html

You can still use cuegen to rewrite the .cue file afterwards.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cuegen/

[AgentLozen]

Thanks for the reply. 
I'll download some of this software and try what you were telling me.

Edit:
For a seemingly simple process, this thing has been a nightmare.

I was going to go on and on about how nothing is working the way I thought it would but now I'm wondering if the disc image I downloaded was bad.  It was a pre-patched .bin that I acquired.  I couldn't find an original, unedited japanese Final Fight CD image.  Anything I try and do with the pre-patched .bin causes errors.  It plays fine on an emulator though.

[Jorpho]

For a seemingly simple process, this thing has been a nightmare.

It's not really that difficult.  Just take things one step at a time.

It plays fine on an emulator though.

It's unlikely to be a bad image, then.

Anything I try and do with the pre-patched .bin causes errors.

All right, so what did you do with BinChunker?

[AgentLozen]

Thanks for checking up on me!

I had a really good evening with Final Fight CD yesterday.  I found a Japanese FFCD ISO to work with.  I got it patched with the color hack, changed the region to North American, and switched out the audio with the Double Impact soundtrack. 

I think part of my problem from the past few days was using WinISO to convert my disc images back and forth between formats.  They seemed to be losing something in the process and none of the other software liked it afterwards.  I figured the conversion process should be lossless and there shouldn't be a change in file size
so I tried the conversion in PowerISO instead and it worked a lot better.

A problem I was having yesterday was that the audio loop was really disruptive.  When the stage one music came to and end there was brief pause before the track looped.  I'm not sure if the Sega CD causes that or if there's something weird about the .wavs I'm using.  I was going to look into it tonight. 

Thanks again for your help!

[Jorpho]

So, for future reference: you extracted the ISO and WAV files using PowerISO? (I can't say I'm familiar with that one; it doesn't seem to be freeware.)

A problem I was having yesterday was that the audio loop was really disruptive.  When the stage one music came to and end there was brief pause before the track looped.  I'm not sure if the Sega CD causes that or if there's something weird about the .wavs I'm using.  I was going to look into it tonight.

I don't know what steps you followed, but it is fairly common for CD-burning software to insert a two-second pause between audio tracks.  Some software lets you disable this, or you can just have a look at the .cue you are using.  (As discussed in that other thread, .cue files are ordinary ASCII text that you can view with Notepad.)

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