Tried ripping an image file with clonecd and converted it using popstation and it's playing again

Other converters that support custom image files and compression still not converting properly although better than nothing, at least i can rip my ps1 games again.
Also FF9 disc 2 STILL won't run regardless. I think theres some sort of copy protection from back in the day and assume this is affecting the ripping/converting even though other people's copies play fine. I grabbing the NTSC version at the moment already converted to PSP format so not a biggy just annoying