How does romcenter handle CHD files?

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How does romcenter handle CHD files?

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I'm in the process of converting preeetty much everything that can be converted to CHD.

Just wondering if romcenter will still peg it as OK with the dat, or if i just royally screwed myself?

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Re: How does romcenter handle CHD files?

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Hi

Romcenter will store CHD unzipped in a folder with same name as the game, as expected in mame.
You can try it on several chd from a backup and check if it is what you expect.

http://wiki.romcenter.com/wiki/doku.php?id=chd

Btw, final release will be out by the end of the month. (No changes about chd in it).
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Re: How does romcenter handle CHD files?

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TY for info on the new release :)

As for chd's I meant in regard to non mame stuff.

aka, ive converted my sega cd bin/cue files into chd. Will they still scan in/line up with the dat files or does being chd change the parameters romcenter uses for identification?

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Re: How does romcenter handle CHD files?

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Rom are processed as chd if they have the flag 'Disk' in the datafile.
The crc calculator extracts then the sha-1 value from the mame chd header.
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Re: How does romcenter handle CHD files?

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Hi,

I would like my segacd roms to be recognized in chd format as well. Where this "disk" flag should be added ?

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Re: How does romcenter handle CHD files?

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Salokyn wrote:
Tue Apr 06, 2021 8:42 pm
Hi,

I would like my segacd roms to be recognized in chd format as well. Where this "disk" flag should be added ?
Hi. This is not something you have to add. It should exist in the datafile you choose to use. It's not a user choice. If a rom should be of "chd" format, it will be defined as that in the datafile and recognized as such by the emulators.

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