binmerge VS namDHC

You need to merge the "Track #" bin files into one; one game needs to have one bin and one cue file. You can use CDMage, cdfix, BinMerger, or just binmerge to do that. Then you can convert to PBP.

If you only have 1 bin file, you can use binmerge to split the tracks.

You can use binmerge to put many bin into one bin: https://github.com/putnam/binmerge

If you want to split the bin file back to multiple bin files, you can use binmerge.

No idea where the pre-merged set exists online- but if you'd like to curate your own set I'd recommend binmerge, and you can auto-generate the cue files here.

Yeah, that would be cool, but then the .bin file usually needs to be split into separate tracks (using binmerge) so I'd need to modify that the work with the streams too in some way. And the .cue file needs to be handled too, so it all gets a bit awkward, and I'm thinking it might be better to make the program support .chd files directly using one of the .chd-reading libraries 🤔

Would be nice to add Binmerge functionality so you can also reverse the process completely for CD-ROM multi-tracks. I learned the hard way that GD-ROMs are not reversible yet.

You can also use a software tool on your computer to create .chd files that contain both the .bin and .cue in a single file chd, if you’d rather do that. Here’s a tool to make your bin/cue files into CHD files.

First off, if you're not keeping the multi-bin format, you'll want to convert your bin/cue files into CHD archives to significantly reduce the clutter and the disk space of these images. Use chdman (included with each release of MAME) with its batch scripts to do so, or use namDHC if you need some more advanced options for your conversion.

There's also a visual frontend for chdman called namDHC that's helpful; it can do things like create individual folders for each CHD file you're processing, among other things. There's a github for that utility.

There is also a GUI available- (namDHC

namDHC plug works like a charm https://github.com/umageddon/namDHC

https://github.com/umageddon/namDHC is what I use (easy front end for chdman)

if you don't want to use the command line you can use GitHub - umageddon/namDHC: Windows frontend for CHDMAN - written in Autohotkey