HDL-Batch-installer VS GIMX

Second, install the extracted files with HDL Batch Installer.

OP, it's best to just leave the files as .bin and .cue and when copying the games over to HDD use HDL Batch Installer. This fine tool will automatically recognize those files as CD based PS2 games and will install them accordingly on the HDD so that they are playable over OPL.

Anyway, to transfer your games for normal OPL build, you must an installer like HDL Batch Installer. Don't worry about the CD/DVD media type thing, the installer will figure it out automatically.

You can use HDL Batch Installer or PFS Batchkit Manager to extract the games that you've installed on HDD back to ISO.

Hello take HDL Batch Installer is best (winhip is old,)HDl batch

For Internal HDD it's going to be different. First you need a SATA/IDE to USB converter to hook up the drive into your notebook. Then using one of the HDL Dumx flavors. (I recommend HDL Batch Installer) to extract the games off the drive to your notebook.

HDL Batch Installer works a lot better and isn't too hard to figure out, and remember to not rely on YouTube videos because they might be outdated or have incorrect information

Download from here, this actually seems to work! https://github.com/israpps/HDL-Batch-installer/releases/tag/Latest

There's a reason why this tool is not recommended to install your game, it's outdated and sometimes the games installed with it will broke one way or the other due to the tools does not conform with the SDK. Delete the games and reinstall it again with HDL Batch Installer/HDLBATCH.

Don't use WinHIIP, it's outdated. Use HDL Batch Installer instead. But, replace the bundled HDL.EXE with this one: https://github.com/ps2homebrew/hdl-dump/releases/tag/v47 (Extract, rename hdl_dump.exe to HDL.EXE then overwrite the ones bundled with HDLBI).

A second option would be to ask GIMX developers to make a snap package, if possible. Converting .deb packages to snap packages is supposedly easy and without problems.