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I looked up CHD on the wiki to no avail. can someone briefly explain what makes a game a CHD game please?
Quote from: Doctor Ugs on May 26, 2008, 12:34:24 pmI looked up CHD on the wiki to no avail. can someone briefly explain what makes a game a CHD game please?CHD = hard drive image
What version of MAME did SFIII become playable?
An arcade operator I was talking to a little while ago about my arcade cabs was interested in the possibility of using a PC running Mame to revitalise his Killer Instinct machines, as the hard drives commonly failed and were virtually unrepairable. Still a popular game, apparently. Seems like a legit application of Mame, at least on the face of it.
Quote from: Zebidee on May 27, 2008, 07:38:22 amAn arcade operator I was talking to a little while ago about my arcade cabs was interested in the possibility of using a PC running Mame to revitalise his Killer Instinct machines, as the hard drives commonly failed and were virtually unrepairable. Still a popular game, apparently. Seems like a legit application of Mame, at least on the face of it.You can also use chdman.exe to rebuild an HD from an image if he really has a KI with only a bad disk.
Quote from: ahofle on May 27, 2008, 10:56:21 amQuote from: Zebidee on May 27, 2008, 07:38:22 amAn arcade operator I was talking to a little while ago about my arcade cabs was interested in the possibility of using a PC running Mame to revitalise his Killer Instinct machines, as the hard drives commonly failed and were virtually unrepairable. Still a popular game, apparently. Seems like a legit application of Mame, at least on the face of it.You can also use chdman.exe to rebuild an HD from an image if he really has a KI with only a bad disk.Correct. The Legit use of MAME is to restore the HD image from the CHD in MAME. Actually using MAME itself instead of the board isn't really a legit use. Besides, what would then be stopping the arcade operator from loading on other ROMs and making a profit from MAME?