bearsfan1978

I'm curious if anyone has tried using this plugin for MAME roms that utilize CHD files. For everything that isn't arcade, I use an external HDD for the mass storage of roms, but use ACM to bring them over to the LB SDD drive because of the quicker speed on the SDD. It's been great for PS2, etc. For MAME w/ CHD files though, I'm running into an issue where the rom loaded (say NFL Blitz) is put into MAME just fine, but because the CHDs are sitting on that slow Ext HDD, when the rom needs to access the CHD, it has to "wake up" the hard drive and load the voice, music, etc... This leads to the game stuttering for a few seconds (sometime up to 20 seconds because of my slow HDD). Has anyone found a way to use ACM to move over the rom CHD folder AS WELL as the much smaller, and zipped rom file? Sorry if that has been asked somewhere, but I can't see it anywhere. I'm assuming since MAME roms are not extracted and that MAME roms are traditionally relatively small, that fraganator doesn't really work on the coding to utilize this niche sector of games.

I came here for an unrelated issue, but I was having that problem a bit ago. In my case, I use an external HDD and noticed that my HDD wasn't powered on for some reason, and thus not connected. Once I fixed that problem, the 7 zip issue was fixed immediately. Hope that helps.