Dreamcast Emulator "Reicast" [Android/Multi-Platform]

[waster36]

(12-20-2013 01:25 PM)ppssp213 Wrote:  Anybody had success with compressed chd's?, I tried compressing crazy taxi usa gdi with chdman from mame, but it didn't work in reicast. Does reicast cast support them it uses lzma, flac compression in v5 of chdman, v4 uses something else.

Yes - use Dreamcast GDI to Mame CHD Converter from http://www.emutalk.net/threads/51502-GDI-to-CHD

I used it to convert Crazy taxi GDI (total uncompressed size 1.1gb) to a CHD file (118Mb) and it worked in Reicast.

edit - The version from the link is v4 I think (mame 0.139u3) - this is the info:

Code:

chdman - MAME Compressed Hunks of Data (CHD) manager 0.139u3 (Sep 19 2010)
Input file:   crazytaxi.chd
Header Size:  108 bytes
File Version: 4
Flags:        NO_PARENT, READ_ONLY
Compression:  zlib+
Hunk Size:    9792 bytes
Total Hunks:  137288
Logical size: 1,344,324,096 bytes
SHA1:         0b644383dd5d96d89fbb1f5d0580fc0fb215ffe2
Raw SHA1:     5334c25002ccb03db0fea89f4096d15eea0ce93e
Metadata:     Tag='CHT2'    Length=88
              TRACK:1 TYPE:MODE1_RAW SUBTYPE:NONE FRAMES:600 PREGAP:0 PGTY
Metadata:     Tag='CHT2'    Length=86
              TRACK:2 TYPE:AUDIO SUBTYPE:NONE FRAMES:44400 PREGAP:0 PGTYPE
Metadata:     Tag='CHT2'    Length=91
              TRACK:3 TYPE:MODE1_RAW SUBTYPE:NONE FRAMES:504150 PREGAP:0 P