Johnny T Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 On 5/5/2020 at 6:09 AM, fab1o said: I created a script that helps unzipping all the CHD 7zipped files to the mame roms folder, correctly unzipping them to the respective folder. Check it out: Is there a 'correct' way to unzip these? What is your script does? At the moment I just have them all unzipped to their own folder? Do I need to be doing something different or is there a better way? Thanks ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 8 minutes ago, Johnny T said: Is there a 'correct' way to unzip these? What is your script does? At the moment I just have them all unzipped to their own folder? Do I need to be doing something different or is there a better way? Thanks ? No. And usually they are not zipped in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny T Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 9 minutes ago, neil9000 said: No. And usually they are not zipped in the first place. Thanks Neil. I currently have them just in their own folder eg. 636jac02.chd is inside a folder called "btltryst". All these folders are inside my "Arcade" folder along with some roms. Am i correct in assuming that this is the "right" way?? Or is there a better / neater / more conventional method? Cheers John ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 3 minutes ago, Johnny T said: Thanks Neil. I currently have them just in their own folder eg. 636jac02.chd is inside a folder called "btltryst". All these folders are inside my "Arcade" folder along with some roms. Am i correct in assuming that this is the "right" way?? Or is there a better / neater / more conventional method? Cheers John ? Thats fine, i have a roms folder and a CHD folder myself, but as long as MAME knows where they are you can have them anywhere you like, even mixed together if you wanted. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny T Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 7 minutes ago, neil9000 said: Thats fine, i have a roms folder and a CHD folder myself, but as long as MAME knows where they are you can have them anywhere you like, even mixed together if you wanted. I think that's what I'll do - separate them out. I didn't realise you could do that but it makes perfect sense (it also really appeals to my OCD!!) ? Thanks (as always) Neil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fab1o Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, Johnny T said: Is there a 'correct' way to unzip these? What is your script does? At the moment I just have them all unzipped to their own folder? Do I need to be doing something different or is there a better way? Thanks ? No, that's how I have them too. That's the "default" way, don't need to be doing anything different. I created the script because I wished I had this script when I first started using mame. I automated this process of downloading all CHDs from archive.org (which are all zipped) and couldn't find any other tool that did that for me. Not sure why they zip them, I guess they do cos some games have multiple CHD files, so zipping them makes more sense so you'd only need to download 1 file instead of multiple ones, but most have just 1 file I guess Edited May 6, 2020 by fab1o 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fab1o Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 8 hours ago, blackboxingcat said: HI Guys I have been all over google etc looking for chds for mame .220 does anyone have any links etc? cheers I use archive dot org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny T Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 40 minutes ago, fab1o said: No, that's how I have them too. That's the "default" way, don't need to be doing anything different. I created the script because I wished I had this script when I first started using mame. I automated this process of downloading all CHDs from archive.org (which are all zipped) and couldn't find any other tool that did that for me. Not sure why they zip them, I guess they do cos some games have multiple CHD files, so zipping them makes more sense so you'd only need to download 1 file instead of multiple ones, but most have just 1 file I guess Ahhhh... I didn't realise your script actually downloads the CHDs as well! That would be very very handy. Thanks for your efforts. Everyday, people like you make it a little bit easier for people like me ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fab1o Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Johnny T said: Ahhhh... I didn't realise your script actually downloads the CHDs as well! That would be very very handy. Thanks for your efforts. Everyday, people like you make it a little bit easier for people like me ? Sorry, the script I posted doesn't do that yet. Right now, to use it you'd have to download them all manually and then run the script. I posted a step by step guide in that thread. It's a time consuming effort to download them all. But there are other ways in the Internet, like torrents. But with torrents, you have to install a torrent client, you end up seeding the files and there are implications to that. But whatever works right? oh, and I thought about eventually posting the complete script that does all of it combined if I got enough positive feedback, so thank you so much for yours! Edited May 6, 2020 by fab1o 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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