On this window check "Import only games that exist in the ROM's Source Folder", make sure MAME is selected in the yellow section and then click Copy AND Import If you are keeping them in the same place just use the same location in the bottom bar and then click next. If you want to change the location of the files, browse to the new location in the bottom bar (Bear in mind that this will be copying the files and NOT moving them to the new location so you'll have to delete the originals when the import is finished) In the top bar browse to the folder with the CHD's & dummy zips
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When everything is named and sorted correctly, load up Launchbox and go to Tools>Import MAME Software List and follow the instructions until you get to this screen I'm including the dummy zips for my games, so hopefully that will save people some time with them at least. These files can be kept anywhere, they don't have to be in the MAME/roms folder, but keep the CHD folders and dummy zips together These names are also found in the cdi.xml.
in your MAME/hash folder there is a file called cdi.xml, in here is the list of games and the names you need to use, they look something like thisĮach CHD needs to be put in a folder with the parent rom name and you'll also need to create a dummy zip file with the shortened name for each game. The CHD's have to be named a specific way or MAME refuses to load them.
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I'm not sure if you need both cdimono1+2, but I've got both and it works.Īlso if you don't already have it, you need to download and install this plugin, I used the latest version (says 4.02 on the download page but it's 4.01) These are the Bios files and they can be kept anywhere as long as you point MAME to the folder.Ĭdibios.zip - I got this from the MAME 0.229 ROMs (bios-devices) setĬdimono1.zip - You'll need to search google for these two if you don't already have them. I'm using MAME 0.229 for this but hopefully it'll work on other versions. If anyone has a better (& quicker) way please let us know. My apologies now as this is a bit long and tedious, but it's the only way I can get them to work. and i don't really care enough about this obscure system to go through any further experimentation, this was already more than you can expect from the regular pleb to get this stuff working.I've been working on this for a few hours and managed to get some games running on MAME through Launchbox. unless you download the big software list MAME set (you can maybe just download the CD-i games, but with that naming scheme i don't know which files would even be required) i see no way how you could get this to work. I've seen people who did get it to work on youtube, but even those videos are years old and any tutorial there seems to be for MESS and therefore useless today. That said i could never get MAME to work through retroarch to begin with and am just using the stand-alone (for regular arcade stuff), so i'm not really surprised that none of the mame stuff worked like this here either.Īlso, apparently the CD-i emulation was mostly done years ago for MESS before it was merged with MAME so there is practically no up-to-date documentation, you can find some year old tutorials for the old MESS versions, and there is just ONE guy who works on CD-i at MAME now (or so it seems), but even the emulation in MAME (if you can get it to work) is still in the experimental stage and a few important things, i think FMV playback was the one big one thing missing, so videos, the entire schtick the system was build around just isn't implemented at all yet? i don't know exactly. CHD files, but still not the correct filenames. and even that version where everything was pre-build just didn't work.
I even downloaded a pre-made Launchbox+Rocketlauncher+Retroarch set (from some site called arcade punks, they do a lot of pre-made sets, i prefer to make my own) that had CD-i games in it, just to analyze how they did it.
The only thing that apparently works is MAME, but i couldn't even get that to work because it expects the roms/images to be in its own specific chd format and it's own filename system or it just doesn't know what that file is, so any REDUMP (or TOSEC) set is simply not functional at this point. I tried to get CD-i to work a few weeks back.
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