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Install On Windows, download MAME from the latest version of MAMEofficial website (linked above). The Linux guides on emugen will usually provide these locations. There should be an executable in the main directory called <code>chdman</code!-- todo: macOS instructions -->. We're going to run it. Open up the terminal and navigate to the folder containing the BIN/CUE files.
$ cd (location On Windows, there should be an executable in the main directory called <code>chdman</code>. If you don't intend to keep MAME on your drive, you should type out the full path of the folder). If you intend to keep MAME, [https://www.howtogeek.com/118594/how-to-edit-your-system-path-for-easy-command-line-access/ add its directory to your path]. Because Linux packages insert shortcuts into folders assigned to the environment path, we can call it from any folder.
This is optional, but pulling Open up the manual will give us this information:terminal and navigate to the folder containing the BIN/CUE files.
Using this, <code>chdman</code> has a command called <code>createcd</code> that we can 'll use to create a CD-type this command CHD.<ref>http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/chdman.1.html, see createcd.</ref> Note that in and substitute the example below, "test (!)" is a placeholder with and should be renamed to the name of your ROMthe file.
$ >''C:\path\to\''chdman createcd <abbr title=-o "test (!).chd" -i "Notice how we're placing the output file before the input filetest (!).cue"> $ chdman createcd -o</abbr> "test (!).chd" -i "test (!).cue"
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,rewrote guide and added mac build
==Downloads==
===Windows===*[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html '''Official release'''] (Windows)
*[http://www.emucr.com/search/label/MAME-SVN SVN Builds]
*[http://www.t2e.pl/pl/466/134/466/Automatyczne-edycje?tsearch=mame,svn,not|plus,not|mameui,not|mewui T2E SVN BUILDS]
===macOS===
*[http://sdlmame.lngn.net/ Unofficial SDLMAME build]
==Overview==
Many emulators other than MAME are beginning to support Compressed Hunks of Data, mainly because compared to the alternatives, it offers compression (or ''better'' compression) on all fronts. [[Libretro]] is making an initiative to support them thanks to a successful bounties initiative, and in many cores such as their [[Mednafen|Beetle]] fork, they've begun rolling it out for certain platforms like Saturn and PlayStation so people can test it.
If you're interested in trying this it out toofor yourself, a this guide has been provided on will show you how to convert to the format using MAME's very own command-line tool called <code>chdman</code>. A small warning though; it requires just a small bit of knowledge on We'll warn you now that you will need to know how to use either a Unix shell or the terminal; the command prompt in order to use it. The developers of MAME seemingly don't have plans to give <code>chdman</code> an interface so if it the thought of going back to the DOS days scares you too much, you may have to wait. <!-- Maybe we can work around this with a batch/shell script that people can use? -->
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:''Note: All Unless explicitly stated, don't type the commands here work on Windows except <code>man</code>, word for word because Windows doesnyou'll need to replace some values with your own.'':''t have a system for manualsAlso: Make sure the cue sheet points to the relative location of the binary and that it works.''
$ man chdman (...) createcd -o filename (...) Create a new compressed CD image from a raw file.cd "''path/to/folder''"
<code>chdman</code> will now compress the cue file, and it should complete with just one CHD for you to use, either in MAME or an emulator that supports it.
