I have gotten Final Fantasy VIII to work with ePSXe finally. I borrowed the game discs from Dan yesterday, but had trouble making ISO files. GnomeBaker, K3b and dd all had errors. I tried a couple programs in Windows, including the Sonic RecordNow which came with the computer. It made an ISO file, but when I tried playing it in ePSXe I got freezing and black screens after a few minutes. Finally I made a working BIN file using this command in the terminal in Ubuntu:

cdrdao copy –device /dev/cdrom

The command is really meant to make a copy of the cd to another cd, so after it made the image file it prompted me to insert a blank cd. Instead I just closed the terminal, found the BIN file in my home folder, and tried it out.

The thing is I think I enjoyed the journey more than the destination, so to speak. FFVIII is pretty cool but I am not going to get that far in a month and a half before FFXII comes out. But getting ePSXe to work, and making a functioning image file? Pretty satisfying.

Yearbook Project work has slowed to a halt just because I am lazy and don’t feel like working in Windows just so I use my scanner. I found my Adobe Photoshop Elements disc that came with one of our digital cameras and am trying it out in Ubuntu with Wine. Not holding my breath.