NFL Blitz - Need Hard Drive?

[njchan]

there's an ebay auction selling an NFL Blitz board without the hard drive ...

how does this work?  can I use just any ol' HD? ... would I just put the chd file on it?

I have an NBA Jam cab and would like to have another game I can swap in and out on it - just for a little variety now and then.

thanks for any info!

[SirPeale]

Getting a CHD onto a hard drive has been posted about before, but here's how I did it for my Blitz 2000 Gold.

1) Use chdman.exe to extract the chd to it's raw format, ie:

          chdman.exe -extract blitz2k.chd blitz2k.raw

the resulting file will be large, so make sure you have enough space.

2) get yourself a Linux disk that has the 'dd' command on it. 

3) Hook the drive you want to write to up.  Note it's position in your system, ie hda, hdb, hdc, hdd

4) write the image to the hard drive using the Linux dd command:

          dd if=blitz2k.raw of=/dev/hdXXXX (where you put the drive you want the image)

That's cut-and-dried, but hopefully you can get it.

There's also a way to do it from XP, but I found this to be the easiest for me.