Please Help Me
 

I have made a few images of my game, Final Fantasy 7, my friend made these for me. I have:

a .ccd file that is 773bytes
a .cue file that is 93bytes
a .img file that is 712megabytes
a .sub file that is 29megabytes

I have burnt the cue file at 4x using nero and it doesnt boot.
I have burnt the .ccd file with cloneCD at 1x and it doesnt boot.

When i put my original disk into my PC the files come up and aren't hidden. However when i put the CD's i have burnt into my PC the files are hidden.

Could anyone please help. Im trying to boot them on a PS2 with a Messiah 2 Pro. It boots everything else.

It seems your friend created those files from your game using CloneCD.
Unfortunately he used the wrong program.
FF7 is not protected and CloneCD seems to have a problem with unprotected PSX games although it is usually fine with protected ones.
Suggest the correct program to use is Goldenhawk's CDRWin using the DEFAULT settings that the program selects when installed.

You should have no problems making a backup of any PSX game with clonecd providing your burner is 100% compatable. Make sure you set "read errors" to abort and use quality media. Also try burning at a higher speed, Burning at slower speeds worked better with the older media however most of todays media seems to prefer to be burned at higher speeds.

ok thanks, ill try it on the fastest setting.

Does the files being hidden not indicate anything?

Just make a direct backup from the original. You shouldnt need the files your friend created.

thanks for the advice guys.

turns out i was booting my PS2 up the wrong way. Doh!

Well I can go back to playing FF7 now :)

I did find a few PSX CDs that were allegedly unprotected but CDRWin and CloneCD had real big problems making a working back-up of them. If my memory serves me right it was "Final Doom" and one of the GT2 CDs and I expect there were a lot more.

I eventually came up with a fail safe method that made a backup of any unprotected psx CD 100% of the time.

I used BlindRead/BlindWrite to make a CDRWin Compatible image of the CD and then used CDRWin to burn the image.

Blind Read/Blind Write has a nibble copy mode, Basically it reads the data as any other standard copy program does until it hits data it doesn't like the look of at which point it switches to nibble mode which just reads 1's and 0's off of the CD without bothering to verify whether the data makes sense. This mode is very slow but has proved very sucessful.

As mentioned before you can also try different copying methods (like raw mode) but only if your burner supports them.

Regards