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Converting ROMs to CHD? #68245 03/30/11 07:21 PM
Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 13 S SuperRedd OP Member
OP SuperRedd Member S Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 13	Hi. I ripped some CD-i Games from my actual discs, and using CHDMAN, I converted them all to CHD, from BIN/CUE, but all the CHD Files are super small, and don't seem to start in MESS. Am I doing something wrong?

Re: Converting ROMs to CHD? SuperRedd #68258 03/31/11 02:02 AM
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ReadOnly Senior Member R Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 351	Originally Posted By SuperRedd Am I doing something wrong? Yes, you want to play a CD-i game, and that, my friend, is very wrong.

Re: Converting ROMs to CHD? SuperRedd #68259 03/31/11 04:55 AM
Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 4,625 A Anna Wu Very Senior Member
Anna Wu Very Senior Member A Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 4,625	Originally Posted By SuperRedd Hi. I ripped some CD-i Games from my actual discs, and using CHDMAN, I converted them all to CHD, from BIN/CUE, but all the CHD Files are super small, and don't seem to start in MESS. Am I doing something wrong? Try CD-i Fan�s tool called " cdifile " (Download section). Very easy to convert a CD-i disc image file to chd format. This tool support different CD file formats. cdifile CDIFILE -createcd example: cdifile cd.cdi -createcd cdifile cd.bin -createcd cdifile cd.nrg -createcd etc. Unfortunately, newer versions of chdman are no longer supported by cdifile 0.5.1. Try a older one of the chdman, example: version 0.135.1 (Nov 9 2009) cdifile and chdman must be in the same folder. Try the demo of " Frog Feast " (Copyright 2005-10 RasterSoft ) Here the right format for MESS. If you have still problems, something must be wrong on your version, configuration or may the needed Bios is missing (MESS). If the Frog Feast demo is working but not your image, something must be wrong on your created .CHD image.

Re: Converting ROMs to CHD? Anna Wu #68260 03/31/11 01:59 PM
Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 4,625 A Anna Wu Very Senior Member
Anna Wu Very Senior Member A Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 4,625	Forgot to say, chdman and cdifile not support multisessions yet. Anna's Playground for QMC2

Re: Converting ROMs to CHD? Anna Wu #68261 03/31/11 02:23 PM
Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 13 S SuperRedd OP Member
OP SuperRedd Member S Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 13	Originally Posted By Anna Wu Originally Posted By SuperRedd Hi. I ripped some CD-i Games from my actual discs, and using CHDMAN, I converted them all to CHD, from BIN/CUE, but all the CHD Files are super small, and don't seem to start in MESS. Am I doing something wrong? Try CD-i Fan�s tool called " cdifile " (Download section). Very easy to convert a CD-i disc image file to chd format. This tool support different CD file formats. cdifile CDIFILE -createcd example: cdifile cd.cdi -createcd cdifile cd.bin -createcd cdifile cd.nrg -createcd etc. Unfortunately, newer versions of chdman are no longer supported by cdifile 0.5.1. Try a older one of the chdman, example: version 0.135.1 (Nov 9 2009) cdifile and chdman must be in the same folder. Try the demo of " Frog Feast " (Copyright 2005-10 RasterSoft ) Here the right format for MESS. If you have still problems, something must be wrong on your version, configuration or may the needed Bios is missing (MESS). If the Frog Feast demo is working but not your image, something must be wrong on your created .CHD image. Using the older version of chdman made the images work. Thank you. Although the games freeze in-game, they do actually start now.

Re: Converting ROMs to CHD? SuperRedd #68262 03/31/11 02:36 PM
Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 4,625 A Anna Wu Very Senior Member
Anna Wu Very Senior Member A Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 4,625	To avoid any misunderstanding, you can use the actual chdman but it can, depent of the available raw CD format, a bit more complex to create a image in .CHD format. For .CDI, .IMG, .NRG images you need a CD burning tool (mode2_raw format with 2352 bytes/sector) to create BIN/CUE or DAT/TOC files. Example for the DAT/TOC file: chdman -createcd cd.toc cd.chd Example for the BIN/CUE file: chdman -createcd cd.cue cd.chd

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