ROMLister does not see CHD only sets

[haynor666]

Long time ago I discovered issue with ROMLister. Program does not see/put on list games that that are listed as CHDs only for example Taito GN games. I have to add those manually to list which is quite annoying. Is there any work around besides copying fake zips?

This is actually not only for ROMLister but also for many frontends like F.E.E.L or MAMEWAH.

[NOP]

I can probably fix this, but I'm not quite sure what the problem you're seeing is yet to know where look.
Are the games not showing up when you generate a list based on joystick/monitor/buttons etc? 
Or are you trying to use the rom scan feature in the settings/tools window?

[haynor666]

Yes, with scan feature. All frontends that I tried had the same issue - scanned are only zip files without additional scanning for chds.

[NOP]

ok, give this a shot:
http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/RomLister313.zip

The rom scan tool now looks for zip, 7z, and chd file extensions.

[haynor666]

Doesn't work for me even if I put chd xiistag.chd in main directory. It does not work if file is inside xiistag directory as well ie. xiistag\xiistag.chd

[NOP]

Yep, I'm dumb. 
Try again.  I updated the same zip file linked to above.

Sorry about that.  This time I actually tested it. 

BTW: the chd files should be in the main folder, not like xiistag\xiistag.chd

I can make it recursively look for zip/7z/chd's but that may get you into trouble if you ever pointed it into a huge folder of roms.  let me know if you need that.

[haynor666]

Default placing scheme is set name/chd file.chd. Chds should be placed in it's own directories because some sets have more than 1 chd file for example bm37th not too mention that in many cases chd name does not match set name like with sfiii and it's chd cap-sf3-3.chd
Anyway so far we have only 614 directories for chds and more than 32000 files in roms directory but that's for full set. Personally I only have 24 directories with chds and 1951 zip files. Scan it's really fast

Rom scan works this time but only if I put chd in main rom directory.

[haynor666]

I've take a closer look on chds and many does have name different than set name. Here is full list of chd only sets (I least hope it is):

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2spicy
99bottles
a51site4a
avalnc12
avalns12
avalonce
avaloncf
avalonsc
avalonse
avalonsf
batlgr2a
bbhsc
bhead2k
bhead2k2
bhead2k3
bhead2ka
bmiidx3a
bmiidx6a
bmiidxa
bmiidxca
bmiidxs
bntyhunt
calspeedb
carnevil1
carnking
chaosbrk
chaoshea
chaosheaj
chasehq2
cndypuzl
code1db
cps3booto
cps3booto2
cps3bs32
cps3bs32a
cr589fw
cr589fwa
ddr3ma
ddr3mka
ddrbocd
ddrja
ddrjb
dragntr2
drmn2mpu
flipmaze
fzeroaxc
gamecst2
gauntdl24
gekpuryb
ggxxrlo
ghostsev
ghostsqo
gobyrc
goketsuj
gtfore03a
gtfore04
gtfore04a
gtfore05
gtfore05a
gtfore05b
gtfore05c
gtfore06
gtfrk10mb
gvrxpsup
gvrxpsys
gwinggen
haremchl
homura
hotgmkmp
hyperv2
inidv3ca
initdexpo
initdo
initdv2jo
initdv3jb
initiad4
initiad4c
jdreddb
jojobar1
jojor1
jojor2
kof98um
kollon
kollonc
lasstixx
lbvbiosu
lsrquiz
lsrquiz2
mahjngoh
meltyblo
meltybo
mfightcc
mgnumber
mgprem11
mj2c
mj2f
mj3d
mwskinsa
mwskinso
nfsug
nightrai
odeontw2
orbatak
otenamhf
otenamih
otenki
p911uc
popn9
ppp2nd
primevah
psyvaria
psyvarrv
pwrshovla
quake
quizard
quizard2
quizard2_22
quizard3
quizard3_32
quizard4
quizard4_40
quizard4_41
quizard_10
quizard_12
quizard_17
radirgyo
raiden3
raiden4
raizpinj
raycris
rcdego
redearthr1
samspsen
sfiii3r1
shanghss
shangtou
shikiga3
shikigam
sianniv
soulcl2w
soulclb3b
soutenry
speeddrv
spicaadv
spuzbobl
spuzboblj
ss2005o
sscopefh
tetgiano
thrild2c
tmosh
tmoshspa
tokyocop
totlvica
totlvicj
totlvicu
trbwtchs
tsurugie
tsurugij
ultarctcup
usagi
usagiol
vaportrxp
vf4b
vf4evoa
vf4o
vf4tuneda
vf4tunedd
vtennis3
wargodsa
wargodsb
wccf331e
wcombatb
wontmuch
xiistag
zokuoten
zooo

[haynor666]

Today I've found in mame documentation how chds should be put:

Where do I place the .CHD (compressed hard disk image) files?

Put them into a subdirectory of your "roms" directory with the name of the game the CHD is for. In addition the CHD, you also need the corresponding ROMs for the game to work. To demonstrate:

mame.exe
roms\
   area51.zip
   area51\
      area51.chd
Note that the CHD name does not always directly correspond to the game now. For example, the CHD for Beatmania is named 753jaa11.chd. It would go in a directory called "bm1stmix".

BTW. I see that new version is not available officially at https://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/