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syph007:
Ah I found the pdf where I originally found the chdman mentioned.  Its in the Aaron Giles doc about things you didn't know MAME could do.

http://mamedev.org/misc/cax2009.pdf

page 11.
Ummon:
Have you found you hit your hand on the bezel of the silver strike when 'casting' the ball?
cyapps:

--- Quote from: Ummon on October 23, 2009, 04:22:35 pm ---Have you found you hit your hand on the bezel of the silver strike when 'casting' the ball?

--- End quote ---

Yes, I knew the minute I looked at it that it wasn't a real good cab for bowling and I/others have hit their hand a few times (mostly the first time they try it) but for the most part it seems to be okay. I don't really go to wild with this bowling game as I have found that overwhelming speed doesn't necessarily mean a better pickup. For the time being I am just going to leave it in this cabinet but I think as soon as I find a gutted "high speed" trackball friendly cab I may just put it in there and turn this into my mame cab.

btw: This is a World Class Bowling Deluxe and not a Silver Strike, the guy I got it from decided to use that marquee instead of leaving the severely cracked original marquee in it.
Ummon:
Oh, right. Yeah, this weekend I was at a pool hall playing Golden Tee 2007 and.....I think a very recent Silverstrike Bowling...something like that....and in both cases, I found that - sorta like with movements with the Wii - short, precise movements were much more effective.
cyapps:
I saw my brother-in-law using his thumbs to putt on the Golden Tee and I tried that on the bowling and well... I got the second highest score on my cabinet 250+. I played that way for a while and my thumbs didn't get cramped or anything, so that is an option (my dad tried it this way too and also got his highest score yet).

As for the hard drive copy, I went ahead and took the Golden Tee hard drive out and connected it to my pc via my ide to usb and then used chdman to create a copy (3.4GB from a 5GB drive). Now I just need to get a hold of a compact flash to ide adapter and a 8 gig compact flash card. I won't be getting to this for a little while as I don't have any extra cash at the moment.

Is there a way to mount a chd file as a drive or convert it to a mountable image?
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