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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: Sephroth57 on January 15, 2004, 12:07:49 pm
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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?
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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.
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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
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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
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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 :-*
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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
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got it,thanks =P