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Title: chd placement for beatmanias
Post by: Squirrley on September 13, 2004, 12:26:20 pm
I have been looking all morning for this information and just can't find anythig that points me in the right direction.  I downloaded the rom set and the chd file for beatmania.  I put the chd in its own directory name the same as the rom (bm1stmix).  When I try to play it says that it can't find the chd file.  I read that the beatmania series was a little different than other chds and may have to be placed in a different directory.  Does anyone have some more information on this?
Title: Re:chd placement for beatmanias
Post by: DaemonCollector on September 13, 2004, 06:02:01 pm
from what I saw the beatmania roms want the CHDs to be named differently, pay attention to what the file name its looking for is.
Title: Re:chd placement for beatmanias
Post by: Squirrley on September 14, 2004, 12:44:01 am
from what I saw the beatmania roms want the CHDs to be named differently, pay attention to what the file name its looking for is.

Right, for example the original beatmania chd file is named 753jaa11.chd.  I have tried changing the name of the directory to match the file name as well but still saying file not found when it tries to load.
Title: Re:chd placement for beatmanias
Post by: bryan1945 on September 14, 2004, 12:57:57 am
from what I saw the beatmania roms want the CHDs to be named differently, pay attention to what the file name its looking for is.

Right, for example the original beatmania chd file is named 753jaa11.chd.  I have tried changing the name of the directory to match the file name as well but still saying file not found when it tries to load.

Here are the names for the folders and chd files that you need to use.  For example  beatmania 1st mix would be \mame\roms\bm1stmix\753jaa11.chd

bm1stmix - 753jaa11.chd
bm2ndmix -  853jaa11.chd
bm4thmix - 847jaa11.chd
bm5thmix - 981jaa11.chd
bm6thmix - a21jaa11.chd
bmcompmx - 858jaa11.chd
bmcorerm - a05jaa11.chd

Haven't tried playing them yet, but they should work.  Hope this helps.
Title: Re:chd placement for beatmanias
Post by: froggerman on September 14, 2004, 01:38:08 am
If you use clrmamepro it will tell you what the folder should be called as well.
Title: Re:chd placement for beatmanias
Post by: bryan1945 on September 14, 2004, 05:01:19 pm
If you use clrmamepro it will tell you what the folder should be called as well.

Thank you for pointing that out.  I'll be in the corner smacking myself for forgetting that   :)
Title: Re:chd placement for beatmanias
Post by: Squirrley on September 15, 2004, 12:37:27 am
If you use clrmamepro it will tell you what the folder should be called as well.

I tried that out.  Great program by the way.  It seems that the chds are from a newer version apparently and need to be rolled back.  Being a noob about these things, can someone point me in the right direction as far as a program to do this?  
Title: Re:chd placement for beatmanias
Post by: cdbrown on September 15, 2004, 03:08:11 am
umm.. why don't you just download a newer version of mame?  Call it mamenew.exe or something like that so you don't overwrite the current version you have.  The rom managers can't really fix the chd's as they are images of the hard drive.  Having a newer version probably just means that chd is more accurate.
Title: Re:chd placement for beatmanias
Post by: dtu on September 21, 2004, 04:05:00 am
A couple of websites to check out when dealing with CHD files.

http://www.mametitles.com/chd.html

http://dweasel.com/agmfaq/index-7.html

http://www.efmovie.com/mame.htm