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nuka1195:
thanks
TheShanMan:
Mine took forever last night too (probably 30 minutes!). My 6 year old really wanted to try it, and when I saw initially how slow it was going to take I said "why don't we do this later when we're not waiting to play". He not only insisted on doing it then, he wanted to keep watching the progress! I think he eventually walked off though.
nuka1195:
i did not time the first 25%, but the last 75% took 80 minutes. but it runs, thanks. :)
Zebidee:

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--- Quote from: Zebidee on May 27, 2008, 07:38:22 am ---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.

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You can also use chdman.exe to rebuild an HD from an image if he really has a KI with only a bad disk.

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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?

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Yeah, I agree with all of that.  The same operator has also asked me 'how much?' for one of my arcade cabs, at which point I reminded him of the legalities.

I didn't realise that you could use chdman.exe like that before - so I might look into re-creating a HD for KI boards for this operator in the future.  Arcade operators tend to think in the 'electro-mechanical' world rather than the 'computers & micro-electronics' world.
Paladin:
Here's a website that tells you how to use a compact flash card instead of a hard drive for Killer Instinct I and II.  No moving parts, less power and heat:
http://www.revisionx.com/kiproject/cf.html

I've also heard it works for Area 51.  I have a Gauntlet Legends, but I'm still building the cabinet from scratch.  When it's built and verified to be working with the hard drive I'm going to try the same trick.
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