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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: Dexter on March 30, 2005, 04:17:20 am

Title: Killer Instinct HD images
Post by: Dexter on March 30, 2005, 04:17:20 am

Guys,

I was speaking to an arcade owner who has a Killer instinct mackine with a dead HD in it. Is it possible to use a HD image or the CHD image to write onto a blank hard drive to bring the game back to life?

Anybody tried this before with Killer instinct or one of the other hard disk games??

Ta

Dexter

Title: Re: Killer Instinct HD images
Post by: SOAPboy on March 30, 2005, 04:41:53 am

Quote from: Dexter on March 30, 2005, 04:17:20 am

Guys,

I was speaking to an arcade owner who has a Killer instinct mackine with a dead HD in it. Is it possible to use a HD image or the CHD image to write onto a blank hard drive to bring the game back to life?

Anybody tried this before with Killer instinct or one of the other hard disk games??

Ta

Dexter

i beleive its works

Title: Re: Killer Instinct HD images
Post by: Dexter on March 30, 2005, 06:02:09 am

I need to know what format the image would have to be in. I take it a file converted to CHD format would not work. I think I have an image for use in ultra64 lying around, could one of these be used?

Title: Re: Killer Instinct HD images
Post by: SirPeale on March 30, 2005, 06:18:20 am

You can use the CHD image, but you have to convert it with the chdman.exe file that comes with Mame.

chdman -extract kinst.chd kinst.raw

Or, alternatively, the very latest version lets you write the image directly to a replacement hard drive:

http://aarongiles.com/weblog/archives/2005/03/can_i_use_chdma.html

With KI/KI2 you have to have a special boot ROM that allows you to use any hard drive.  This I'm not sure where it's available.  It used to be available @ http://www.killerinstinctproject.com but IIRC it's gone.  I know there are mirrors, I just don't know where.

Title: Re: Killer Instinct HD images
Post by: Dexter on March 30, 2005, 08:39:00 am

Brilliant Peale thank you!

Title: Re: Killer Instinct HD images
Post by: Witchboard on March 30, 2005, 03:30:20 pm

Now for the important questions...

How cheap did you get the cab since the HD was dead, or how much did you charge the arcade owner to fix it?  ;D

Title: Re: Killer Instinct HD images
Post by: Dexter on March 31, 2005, 04:43:59 am

LOL!! Straight up though, he has a cab that he'll let me have for a good price if I can sort some stuff for him, like getting his KI machine running.

Title: Re: Killer Instinct HD images
Post by: Dexter on March 31, 2005, 08:37:31 am

Quote from: Peale on March 30, 2005, 06:18:20 am

With KI/KI2 you have to have a special boot ROM that allows you to use any hard drive.

Title: Re: Killer Instinct HD images
Post by: SirPeale on March 31, 2005, 09:23:07 am

Try http://www.hobbyroms.com.

Title: Re: Killer Instinct HD images
Post by: Dexter on April 01, 2005, 06:59:53 am

Will do man, and thanks again!

Title: Re: Killer Instinct HD images
Post by: kinu64 on April 20, 2005, 02:47:29 pm

In case you are looking to buy one, I have seen these on ebay from time to time
 
here is the only one I could find
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=187&item=8186658335&rd=1