chdman?

[Sephroth57]

im having trouble updating my chd files, i put chdman and kinst2.chd in the same folder. i double click chdman a window pops up for a sec and then goes away real quick.. cant really tell what it said it was a command prompt type screen. and the rom still doesnt work, am i doing this wrong?

[SirPeale]

Man, you kids today with your point-and-click interfaces.

Waaaay before PAC, we had the command line.  For the most part, MAME is a command line program (that happens to have a GUI offshoot)

Open a command prompt and change to the directory in question.  Type in 'chdman' and it will tell you how to convert.

[Sephroth57]

you mean i have to use.... *gulp*  DOS!?    omg i feel like im in the 80s, i actually tried doing that before but the only command i know is dir, lol. i couldnt figure out how to switch folders...


edit: yeah i just tried again i cant figure out how to move through folders.... lol

[Sephroth57]

ok i finally figured out how to get chdman running, now lets say for kinst2.chd, i type chdman -update kinst2.chd ??.chd

whats the ??, i dont want to change the name cause its still the same, i tried putting both as kinst2.chd and it didnt work

[Sephroth57]

this is what im doing... what am i doing wrong??? plus it eats my file everytime i do this, i have to unzip another one and stick it inj the folder



C:\Documents and Settings\Drew>chdman -update kinst2.chd kinst2.
chd
chdman - MAME Compressed Hunks of Data (CHD) manager 0.78 (Dec 24 2003)
Input file:   kinst2.chd
Output file:  kinst2.chd
Error creating CHD file: can't create file

[SirPeale]

It doesn't convert the file.  It creates a new file.  Proper format is this:

chdman -update old.chd newfile.chd

After it goes thru with no errors you can delete old.chd and rename newfile.chd to old.chd.  Get it?

Oh, to change from one directory to another: cd

cd \this\is\the\directory

[Sephroth57]

got it,thanks =P