Anyone Have a Good CHD List?
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Addendum: For some personal python tool to calculate n-scaled viewports for mameroms where it is applicable (no multiscreen, no vector, etc.), i had written a script that takes the information from a mame.xml with information from a corresponding catver.ini and merges the entries I needed for the VPC (viewportcalculator), together with just some further info i was curious about (like driver status, chd, clone/etc.) into a pandas dataframe, exported as a CSV (well, actually a TAB seperated value file) which could easily be imported into a spreadsheet programm for further processing (like sorting for CHDs, etc.)... But I am not sure how i would share it at the moment, as it really isn't user friendly (well, it is commandline only with just mame.xml and catver.ini as input parameters... so maybe it is user-friendly, but: -), not fail safe and simply a it does what i want from it for the input files I tried and needed so far... So I won't open a git.rep for it, would be easy if this Forum had collapsible/foldable blocks (aka
asspoiler tags) to put the code (at the moment 316 lines) in... -
@ashpool You could create a GitHub gist for it and post a link to it here?
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@fcibx6r1un Oh, haven't known about gists so far, I will take a look at it - thanks.
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@fcibx6r1un Ok, it can be found in here: Project VPC. Provided as is and basic knowledge about using a python script assumed.
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@alphabetapie This might help. I just ran a raw directory listing of all CHD folders from the most current version of MAME.
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I was able to pull a list and find the CHD files I need, but I have another question. The instructions I've read say drop a folder in the rom directory with the exact same name as the rom file (for each CHD). But I'm confused. Most the CHD file names match the rom file name. But some don't. Some have different letters/versions, and the Street Fighter 3 CHD is named complete different. Does that matter, or do I need to rename them? And can you simply just change the file name and it'll work with any rom version?
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The
.chdname doesn't always match the ROMset name, so you shouldn't rename it. -
@mitu Thanks for the tip. Also, if I have more than one (from a merged set), is there a distinction between which I should use? I assume you don't need two right?
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@alphabetapie Use a ROM validation application and you'll know for sure which files - including CHD - are needed.
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you could try http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/?search=mame&clone=0&filter_use_chd=1&driver_emulation=1
131 non-clone chd roms, you could also filter by mame version, this is default current mame...
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