PepsiBoy428 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 8:10 pm
Hi I recently updated my MAME to 0.222 and it won't load any CHD based games (Ex. sf2049, sfrushrk, etc.), CHD games worked fine in 0.220 and now the latest version doesn't load ANY CHD based games. How do I fix this?
Not quite sure what to suggest here as they work for pretty much everyone else. The only change in recent memory was to no longer allow loading of loosely stored CHD files in your ROMPATH - which I assume you may have been doing if those games suddenly doesn't load.
Let's take one example of
San Francisco Rush 2049 (sf2049)
In your mame.ini:
ROMPATH c:\mame\roms
The ROM Chips (sfrush.zip) and Compressed Hunks of Data (sf2049.chd), by default, are looked for in:
ROMS:
c:\mame\roms\sf2049.zip
CHD:
c:\mame\roms\sf2049\sf2049.chd
If you have a separate folder for CHDS, each CHD be placed in a folder inside that ROMPATH entry which matches it up to the actual game.
Using the above example, for instance, with multiple rompaths (separated with a semi-colon
;
ROMPATH c:\mame\roms;f:\chd
ROMS could be in::
c:\mame\roms\sf2049.zip
f:\chd\sf2049.zip
CHD could be in:
c:\mame\roms\sf2049\sf2049.chd
f:\chd\sf2049\sf2049.chd