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Nice. Great finding, very nice to see those awesome games not taking much disk space. I can put them on my portable machine now. And I verified with a bin diff that the files are identical to the mame dump for soulcalibur 2 for example. The only thing I was wondering was if some audio tracks or video tracks were missing. Would still like to understand what happened.

Yes agreed. Just explaining to him how to do it since it was his question. How come your chds are way smaller than the mame ones? I converted your chd and mame for soulcalibur 2 to isos, extracted all files and compared the files and they are identical. Yet the mame chd is 2.35GB and yours is only 361MB. Makes me wonder if all mame chds waste space like this I don't worry, I made a binary file comparison and yes they are 100% identical. Just surprised on why the mame chds are so much bigger.

Using Tekken 4 as example. I have the following files roms\NM00004 Tekken 4 JAP\NM00004 TEF3, Ver.D a025671124888a.ps2 (I got it from the pinned post link for the actual dongles, clicked NM00004 Tekken 4, downloaded NM00004 TEF3, Ver.D a025671124888a.bin.gz, extracted the file NM00004 TEF3, Ver.D a025671124888a.bin, renamed it to NM00004 TEF3, Ver.D a025671124888a.ps2. Yes you must rename it. If you don't it will not just work.) roms\NM00004 Tekken 4 JAP\boot.elf (I got it from the pinned post link DONGLE_FILES.7z, went inside TEF3, Ver.D since the folder matched the names above and copied just the boot.elf file, none of the other files) roms\NM00004 Tekken 4 JAP\tef1dvd0.chd (to get it I googled for: mdk.cab tekken 4 chd) And the following tekken4.acgame to launch the game [game] name=Tekken 4 JAP gameid=NM00004 [data] subdir=roms/NM00004 Tekken 4 JAP elf=boot.elf dongle=NM00004 TEF3, Ver.D a025671124888a.ps2 card= mediasrc=tef1dvd0.chd media=DVD

Thank you. Yes I saw it, and the mediafire links seem to be the ones that were kindly shared by @compnwl Let's take an example. The mame chd for Soulcalibur 2 is sc21-dvd0d.chd and is 2.4GB. The one shared by compnwl is game.chd is 369MB. There is a big difference in size which could be a huge win, at the same time wondering how this small size was achieved to make sure nothing is missing.

Thanks for sharing. The chd files are much smaller than the other ones I found, was anything removed from them?

Interesting new beat'em up for Amiga / Neogeo / PC coming up: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/metrosiege/metro-siege

This seems to be one of the best years in Emulation. Model 2 finally working in Mame, GameNative/Winlator starting to work well on phones, Lindbergh Linux Loader, soon PCXS2 support for 2x6.

Really cool, and now feels like going down the rabbit hole I need to add something like this to my cab. Is there a turnkey easy solution for people who do not want to spend too much time on it?

Wow best news of the day!

No, just be patient. Enjoy all the other working games for now.

Yes. That is the best news in Emulation in the last 2 to 3 years at least. Those guys have been cooking. Linux Loader is absolutely brilliant. The level of polish and overall quality for the supported games is way above what TP provides behind a paywall.

By default in the game folder, but you can change it with command line options -c "C:\yourpath\linuxloader.ini" -o "C:\yourpath\controls.ini"

Thank you so much! Not sure why it did not pop up on archive.org when I initially searched for lindbergh. I guess I need new glasses! Confirmed those do not display the "not clean" message and seem to work.

Thanks, that seems to be for Chihiro not Lindbergh. The bin files on archive.org for Batocera all say "not clean elf". So something is going on. I actually found some information here https://github.com/ArcadeHustle/LindyLiberation Not going to spend time on that, someone already made all the work and the clean files are around. Just need to be patient. It is already a glorious day to have "linux loader", so I can wait until the clean images drop. I have hundreds of other games to test and play anyways. Game DVDs Games are stored on installation DVDs. These contain a section of custom sega header data followed by an ISO file system with multiple partitions. As explained in the security chip section, one of these partitions contains a bash script to unencrypt the other partitions which contain the game data and executable. Although there are multiple partitions, most games only use one partition to store all of the files. Probably should try this and explain better, but this is how you get the data from the DVDS: Mount the DVD drive from a USB Drive Using a hex editor to search the raw image for “CD001” (ISO Marker), this is found at 0x288000 and 0x390000 on HOTD4. Subtract 32768 (0x8000) as per the ISO9660 standard (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660) 0x288000 - 0x8000 = 0x280000 = 2621440 0x390000 - 0x8000 = 3702784 On a linux machine you can then mount these: losetup -o 2621440 /dev/loop1 /dev/scd0 mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/loop1 /mnt/cdrom/ These two partitions are encrypted. One contains the game data, and the other will contain a bash script that will unencrypt the game data folder. The PIC chip is used to unencrypt the smaller partition with the bash file, which then uses faster decryption for the game. It’s easy to find most of the bash files that unencrypt the game partitions with static keys by finding pre-decrypted Lindbergh images online. Some games use the same decryption keys, so if you find a game that hasn’t yet been decrypted that could be one way to do it. This is explained in more detail in the security chip section.

Guess we will need to wait then for the official dumps.