It's the name of the CHD and the - probably doesn't help things.
Make it SOTN.chd or something nice and short.

Also, I don't know if this is required, but keep the CHDs in a structure similar to this.

H:\MESS\software\psu\SOTN.CHD

Hmmm, actually, the file name should be OK, if not, that's a bug.

@mesk: could you please post the front-end log (reproducing the emulator crash)?

What happens when you use the same command as shown in the log from the command line?

Sorry about the delayed response,got caught up in the falcons-saints game.

Anyways
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[*]14:11:18.478: M.E.S.S. Catalog / Launcher II v0.34 (Qt 4.7.3, MESS, us) 14:11:18.478: Phonon features enabled - using Phonon v4.4.0 14:11:18.479: SDL joystick support enabled - using SDL v1.2.14 14:11:18.479: processing global emulator configuration 14:11:18.480: creating template configuration map 14:11:18.480: template info: emulator = MESS, version = 0.143, format = 0.2.4 14:11:18.658: image cache size set to 64 MB 14:11:18.686: shortcut map is clean 14:11:18.687: joystick map is clean 14:11:18.692: QtDebugMsg: WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded 14:11:18.726: loading machine info DB 14:11:18.838: done (loading machine info DB, elapsed time = 00:00.112) 14:11:18.838: 312 machine info records loaded 14:11:18.839: loading emulator info DB 14:11:18.940: done (loading emulator info DB, elapsed time = 00:00.101) 14:11:18.940: 1614 emulator info records loaded 14:11:18.944: determining emulator version and supported sets 14:11:19.029: done (determining emulator version and supported sets, elapsed time = 00:00.085) 14:11:19.029: emulator info: type = MESS, version = 0.143u9 14:11:19.030: 1614 supported set(s) 14:11:19.030: loading XML machine list data from cache 14:11:19.140: done (loading XML machine list data from cache, elapsed time = 00:00.110) 14:11:19.147: loading ROM state from cache 14:11:19.152: done (loading ROM state from cache, elapsed time = 00:00.005) 14:11:19.152: 1695 cached ROM states loaded 14:11:19.153: processing machine list 14:11:19.154: loading machine data from machine list cache 14:11:19.262: done (loading machine data from machine list cache, elapsed time = 00:00.108) 14:11:19.331: sorting machine list by machine description in ascending order 14:11:19.353: restoring machine selection 14:11:19.637: done (processing machine list, elapsed time = 00:00.484) 14:11:19.638: 1611 machine(s), 3 BIOS set(s) and 81 device(s) loaded 14:11:19.638: ROM state info: L:1695 C:1340 M:355 I:0 N:0 U:0 14:11:19.639: applying ROM state filter 14:11:19.654: loading available system slots 14:11:19.997: done (loading available system slots, elapsed time = 00:00.343) 14:11:20.407: done (applying ROM state filter, elapsed time = 00:00.768) 14:11:20.408: loading favorites 14:11:20.408: done (loading favorites) 14:11:20.408: loading play history 14:11:20.409: done (loading play history) 14:24:10.777: starting emulator #0, command = E:\Emulation\Emulators\MESS\mess64.exe -bios 4.5A -rompath E:\Emulation\Emulators\MESS\bios -hashpath E:\Emulation\Emulators\MESS\hash psu -cdrom C:\davey\Castlevania.chd 14:24:10.807: emulator #0 started, PID = 128986224, running emulators = 1 14:24:12.031: WARNING: emulator #0 crashed 14:24:12.031: emulator #0 finished, exit code = -1073741819 (unknown error), exit status = crashed, remaining emulators = 0 14:24:42.715: QtDebugMsg: WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded

It has to be something with my image.I thought to create MESS compatible CHD it was

chdman -createcd input.cue output.chd -correct?

when I try that I get [img:center]http://postimage.org/image/kt1y543z5/[/img]

could my bin\cue be corrupt?

Though this is nearly unreadable (use code-tags in the future please !) you seem to have a number of probably related issues:

1) The Phonon backend plugin can't load.
2) No access to the translation files.

How did you install QMC2?

So, what happens when you run this from a command line:

Ahh, yup. For starters, you don't need the c:\davey\ prefix on the cue file, and secondly you'll want to make sure castlevania.bin is in c:\windows\desktop.

"chdman -createcd castlevania.cue SOTN.chd" will then work fine.

Oh, a bad CHD... that explains many things .

Oh you guys are great

I am trying now and will post my results!

You guys are great!

@ RBelmont--thank you for the tips

@qmc2---First off I apologize for not using code tags,;) and as far as those other issues you mentioned,there are no problems with QMC2.Everything runs fine.for the record I am using a 64bit build by Dr Spankenstein from a link that is on the QMC2 site.

Once again,thank you

@Dr. Spankenstein
I suggest to remove the VC++ redistributable in your package because no need for MingW builds.

@René
I suggest to mark the downloadable Windows versions to see what´s VC++ and/or MingW builds on your page.