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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: blueoakleyz on October 28, 2004, 10:04:54 pm

Title: What are CHDs?
Post by: blueoakleyz on October 28, 2004, 10:04:54 pm

In regards to mame roms....

Title: Re:What are CHDs?
Post by: DaemonCollector on October 28, 2004, 11:16:36 pm

Compressed Hard Drives, they hold graphics and such for machines that origionaly had them stored on these drives like Killer Instinct and the songs for the Beatmania series.

Title: Re:What are CHDs?
Post by: papaschtroumpf on October 29, 2004, 12:49:21 am

speaking of CHDs, how can I find the name of the firectories they belong into (e.g. MAME\ROMS\AREA51)?
I have several CHDs that are not in a dedicated directory and that seems wrong (or at least I can't play them)

Title: Re:What are CHDs?
Post by: cdbrown on October 29, 2004, 12:49:58 am

CHD=Compressed Hunks of Data
http://members.iinet.net.au/~tmorrow/emulation/mameinfo/chdinfo.html - good amount of info on the CHD's

Title: Re:What are CHDs?
Post by: DaemonCollector on October 29, 2004, 12:50:32 am

Run ClrMAMEPro on the directory containing them, that should be able to figure them out and move them to the correct locations :)