Is it possible to use Sega CD merged bin?

mitu

@POPEYE You asked about merged bin/cue file. chd is a format which combines one .cue and the .bin files - referenced by that .cue - into a single .chd file. What exactly are you trying to do - explain in more detail your problem ?

POPEYE

What exactly are you trying to do - explain in more detail your problem ?
Just trying to merge without using Windows software.

mitu

@POPEYE said in Is it possible to use Sega CD merged bin?:

Just trying to merge without using Windows software.

Then use chdman.exe, as I said before, and it will produce a .chd file from your .cue/.bin files. Said program is part of MAME (mamedev.org), so you can grab it from there. Here's a link on how to use it.

POPEYE

As far as I understand, this action is reversible and I can get images back as they were?

Create CHD:

chdman createcd --input "file.cue" --output "file.chd"

Extract CHD:

chdman extractcd --input "file.chd" --output "file.cue"

gomisensei

@POPEYE more like

chdman extractcd -i file.chd -o file.cue -ob file.bin

but i'm not sure how it works with multi-bin's, i have none to test

I can confirm it works with my multi-track .gdi's...

POPEYE

I've tried and it seems to be working. It even can pack toc / bin, and unpack to cue / bin. But, I still don't know what will happen, if I will use different versions of chdman. I only figured out, that v5 starts from MAME 0.146.

By the way, what version of chdman in RetroPie Manuals ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-ElaPpvBHs5aUd0QUM3c05kY2c/view ), and what is it's system requirements?

I have already got one time trapped with toc / bin which is impossible to use outside of Linux and almost impossible to convert to other formats (you can try to convert to nrg using old nerolinux or to cue / bin using chdman).

mitu

@POPEYE said in Is it possible to use Sega CD merged bin?:

By the way, what version of chdman in RetroPie Manuals ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-ElaPpvBHs5aUd0QUM3c05kY2c/view ), and what is it's system requirements?

It's v5. The older version are deprecated and lossy.

POPEYE

@mitu But from what version of MAME is it (must be written in help of the program)? Is it 32 or 64 bit? I've tried it in XP, it says: "not a valid win32 application".

mitu

@POPEYE It's a 64 application.

POPEYE

Can somebody tell, from which version of MAME (0 . xxx) it was taken?

mitu

Given that v5 is the last version of the CHD format, I think anything included in MAME 0.146 and later should be compatible. I don't think the latest version supports Windows XP (even the 32 bit one), so if you're looking for a compatible version try an older release.

POPEYE

It is from MAME 0.205 (x64) release.