worthwhile chd games?

[Jox43w]

ok im not saying all chd games are wothless but im not intrested in the newer 3d games but theres games like killer instint 1 and 2 and thrid strike chd games that awsome im currently downloading a complete chd list which adds up to 60gb! iv disabled games like blitz gaunlet legends but theres till loads of smal size chd games sub 150mb i dont want to miss out on any decent 2d style games iv only dowloaded ki 1 n 2 and thrid strike is there any others you  would recomend me getting that will run on a 2.4ghz core2duo?

thannks

[Ginsu Victim]

Red Earth is worthwhile.

[Jox43w]

Red Earth is worthwhile.

woah! just checked out a vid of this game on youtube, game looks crazy! thanks got that on the download.

anyone recomend anyothers.

[Ginsu Victim]

I only have area 51, killer instinct 1 & 2, SFIII, and Red Earth. There's no other CHDs I care about. (Some I would care about, but they run like ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---)

[nuka1195]

simpsons bowling

[BASS!]

If you have a 4.2ghz core 2 e8400 then blitz and gauntlet work awesome.

[boogieman]

What system specs are we looking at to be able to play red earth? 

[Dizzle]

What version of MAME did SFIII become playable?

[Doctor Ugs]

I looked up CHD on the wiki to no avail. can someone briefly explain what makes a game a CHD game please?

[Malenko]

I looked up CHD on the wiki to no avail. can someone briefly explain what makes a game a CHD game please?

CHD = hard drive image

its like a rom, but the arcade games had an actual hard drive and the CHD is just the data from that drive. I believe in the case of SF3 its an image of the CD but the same premise applies

[my58vw]

Well if you like music games, the beatmania series would be worth looking into

[Ummon]

I looked up CHD on the wiki to no avail. can someone briefly explain what makes a game a CHD game please?

Ha, probly a rare instance of someone with the right intent looking in the wrong place. In any case, anything actual game-wise you want to look in MAWS. Or google it.

[Zebidee]

I looked up CHD on the wiki to no avail. can someone briefly explain what makes a game a CHD game please?

CHD = hard drive image

CHD originally used to mean "Compressed Hard Drive", but in more years the definition has been broadened to "Compressed Hunks of Data"

An arcade operator I was talking to a little while ago about my arcade cabs was interested in the possibility of using a PC running Mame to revitalise his Killer Instinct machines, as the hard drives commonly failed and were virtually unrepairable.  Still a popular game, apparently.  Seems like a legit application of Mame, at least on the face of it.

[massive88]

What version of MAME did SFIII become playable?

Somewhere around 0.117 or so...  I know they are in 0.117, dont know how much earlier then that it got, not much I think.

[ahofle]

An arcade operator I was talking to a little while ago about my arcade cabs was interested in the possibility of using a PC running Mame to revitalise his Killer Instinct machines, as the hard drives commonly failed and were virtually unrepairable.  Still a popular game, apparently.  Seems like a legit application of Mame, at least on the face of it.

You can also use chdman.exe to rebuild an HD from an image if he really has a KI with only a bad disk.

[Jdurg]

An arcade operator I was talking to a little while ago about my arcade cabs was interested in the possibility of using a PC running Mame to revitalise his Killer Instinct machines, as the hard drives commonly failed and were virtually unrepairable.  Still a popular game, apparently.  Seems like a legit application of Mame, at least on the face of it.

You can also use chdman.exe to rebuild an HD from an image if he really has a KI with only a bad disk.

Correct.  The Legit use of MAME is to restore the HD image from the CHD in MAME.  Actually using MAME itself instead of the board isn't really a legit use.  Besides, what would then be stopping the arcade operator from loading on other ROMs and making a profit from MAME?

[nuka1195]

any tips on getting red earth to run?

do you wait for the rewrite, mine seemed to freeze at 36%

i have mame .125u1

[Ginsu Victim]

Dunno. Mine didn't freeze. (When I tested it in .124; haven't tried it in .125))

[nuka1195]

did yours run thru the lengthy rewrite?

[Ginsu Victim]

yep. I just left it and went and made a sandwich.

[nuka1195]

thanks

[TheShanMan]

Mine took forever last night too (probably 30 minutes!). My 6 year old really wanted to try it, and when I saw initially how slow it was going to take I said "why don't we do this later when we're not waiting to play". He not only insisted on doing it then, he wanted to keep watching the progress! I think he eventually walked off though.

[nuka1195]

i did not time the first 25%, but the last 75% took 80 minutes. but it runs, thanks.

[Zebidee]

An arcade operator I was talking to a little while ago about my arcade cabs was interested in the possibility of using a PC running Mame to revitalise his Killer Instinct machines, as the hard drives commonly failed and were virtually unrepairable.  Still a popular game, apparently.  Seems like a legit application of Mame, at least on the face of it.

You can also use chdman.exe to rebuild an HD from an image if he really has a KI with only a bad disk.

Correct.  The Legit use of MAME is to restore the HD image from the CHD in MAME.  Actually using MAME itself instead of the board isn't really a legit use.  Besides, what would then be stopping the arcade operator from loading on other ROMs and making a profit from MAME?

Yeah, I agree with all of that.  The same operator has also asked me 'how much?' for one of my arcade cabs, at which point I reminded him of the legalities.

I didn't realise that you could use chdman.exe like that before - so I might look into re-creating a HD for KI boards for this operator in the future.  Arcade operators tend to think in the 'electro-mechanical' world rather than the 'computers & micro-electronics' world.

[Paladin]

Here's a website that tells you how to use a compact flash card instead of a hard drive for Killer Instinct I and II.  No moving parts, less power and heat:
http://www.revisionx.com/kiproject/cf.html

I've also heard it works for Area 51.  I have a Gauntlet Legends, but I'm still building the cabinet from scratch.  When it's built and verified to be working with the hard drive I'm going to try the same trick.

[Zebidee]

Thanx heaps - good food for thought......