Convert SEGA Dreamcasat CDI to CHD?

[Zeaede]

According to this file you can convert cdi to chd with SEGA Dreamcast

I have the files that can be seen in the video

But when i try the same i always get an error input

Dunno what i do wrong, why it dosen't work?

Anyone else tried it?

 

 

[neil9000]

6 minutes ago, Zeaede said:

According to this file you can convert cdi to chd with SEGA Dreamcast

I have the files that can be seen in the video

But when i try the same i always get an error input

Dunno what i do wrong, why it dosen't work?

Anyone else tried it?

 

 

Try this, just put the two files in your game folder and run the .bat.

chd_batfile-20200927T131941Z-001.zip

[Headrush69]

What is the error you get?

Also, I have had lots of cdi images that did not convert or were bad quality. The quality of the cdi image depends on the ripper and they often do things like downgrade audio to fit on a standard CD-R size image.

On the other hand, I've had almost perfect success rate with gdi and cue/bin images. (Which are a perfect copy of the original media)

I would suggest trying to source a different image for the best outcome.

 

Edited September 27, 2020 by Headrush69

[Zeaede]

Im not gonna convert all cdi's just a few

I get this message with whatever CDI i try convert

 

ERROR: Unknown track type [].  Contact MAMADEV.

Error reading input file: file not found

Error running chdman!

 

[Chris Kant]

I always failed to convert CDI to CHD so I looked for the CHD version or GDI ones and converted the GDI to CHD by myself.

[aztha]

first you must delete all symbol on your chd title

he use chdman mame 0.109

but this chd doesn't work with flycast

 

0.109.zip

Edited November 25, 2020 by aztha

[Sylwahan]

This particular cdifile tool seems to have been made for Philips CD-i images so maybe not surprising it doesn't work properly with Dreamcast. Been trying a bunch of different stuff but so far haven't found any way to make the resulting converted files playable. GDI or CUE/BIN is not an option with translated/patched games that are CDI, but they are pretty few so I guess one just has to live with those being different.

[mundodisco]

Dear @Zeaede

cdifile.exe is compatible with chdman up to version 0.138 (included). From version 0.139 up to 0.145, you'll get this error message: "ERROR Unknown track type [].  Contact MAMEDEV.". And from version 0.146 up to latest one (0.240), you'll get this other error message: "Error running chdman!".

 

So, to sum up: use cdifile.exe along with chdman.exe from MAME 0.138 or below (I haven't tried chdman prior version 0.109).

The command line is:

cdifile "mspacman.cdi" -createcd

Last but not least, one important thing to note: if you use a very old version of chdman (as 0.109), the name of input cdifile must not contain spaces or special characters. But using version 0.138 (latest compatible version), you won't have this issue (provided you write the name between " "). Example:

cdifile "Sonic Adventure 2 (USA)[DCRES].cdi" -createcd

(that command will run just fine with cdifile v0.5.1 and chdman v0.138, all in the same folder; but if you use chdman 0.109 instead, it won't)

 

Any other doubt, just reply!

Regards,

Gabriel

[Hazel]

@mundodisco it worked But... now the game don't run on retroarch, when i try to open it says this on the image attached, the original cdi works normally, this is really sad...