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| Dazz:
--- Quote from: jardine on February 23, 2008, 11:32:32 pm ---Can i latch on by asking if all roms require CHD's to work? --- End quote --- No, CHD's are the hard drives of some of the newer machines (year 2000 and up?) and are required for their roms to work. |
| Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: jardine on February 23, 2008, 11:32:32 pm ---Can i latch on by asking if all roms require CHD's to work? --- End quote --- NO..... CHD's are compressed hard drive images, from games that had a hard drive containing things like the game program and graphics and sounds etc etc. Not all games had a hard drive in them. Many had all of their program solely contained in the ROM's However, if you are trying to run a game that had a hard drive in the original arcade machine then you must have the ROM's and The CHD. The downside to all of this is that, not many of the CHD games run well or at least not at full speed inside of MAME and many of them don't run at all. Best Regards, Julian (Fozzy The Bear) |
| jardine:
Thanks guys....one last enquiry....i guess you will know which ones need CHD's by 1) being Year 2000 or over on date and 2) being Year 2000 or over in date that don't work?? |
| pointdablame:
--- Quote from: jardine on February 23, 2008, 11:52:40 pm --- Thanks guys....one last enquiry....i guess you will know which ones need CHD's by 1) being Year 2000 or over on date and 2) being Year 2000 or over in date that don't work?? --- End quote --- Not really. You just need to take a quick look online and see what games are CHD games. Not all CHD games are 2000+ and not all 2000+ games are CHD. Also, not all 2000+ games don't work because they are CHD games, but might simply not work yet. It's just not that cut and dry. |
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