zektor
12-26-2003, 08:37 PM
http://www.mame.net
With the new release comes some new game additions and fixes as usual, but the largest being the updates to the chd (hard disk) games. ALL will require conversion to the new standard...which I would like to add is a slow, tedious process. I have been converting my "old" chd files to the new standard all night. There is no size difference between the old and new as far as I am seeing, but they must be converted to work with v0.78. A utility named "chdman" is included with the Mame distro to enable you to do this. Here's an example of what needs to be done:
We'll take carnevil.chd for example:
At a command prompt:
chdman -update carnevil.chd carnevil2.chd
The carnevil2.chd file is what will be outputted when completed. When done, delete the old carnevil.chd file and rename the new carnevil2.chd to "carnevil.chd". Repeat this process...over and over...on the rest of your chd files.
With the new release comes some new game additions and fixes as usual, but the largest being the updates to the chd (hard disk) games. ALL will require conversion to the new standard...which I would like to add is a slow, tedious process. I have been converting my "old" chd files to the new standard all night. There is no size difference between the old and new as far as I am seeing, but they must be converted to work with v0.78. A utility named "chdman" is included with the Mame distro to enable you to do this. Here's an example of what needs to be done:
We'll take carnevil.chd for example:
At a command prompt:
chdman -update carnevil.chd carnevil2.chd
The carnevil2.chd file is what will be outputted when completed. When done, delete the old carnevil.chd file and rename the new carnevil2.chd to "carnevil.chd". Repeat this process...over and over...on the rest of your chd files.