OT: GoodMerged 7z ROMs prioritization tool: unzip to chd function

Problem:

We have a set of roms in bin + cue file format and zipped (or 7zipped).

Emulator won't play them directly in a zip format but want that you unzip them all; but you want to save hard disk space.

Example:

we have Chicken Run (UK).zip that contains the following files:

Chicken Run (UK) (Track 1).bin
Chicken Run (UK) (Track 2).bin
Chicken Run (UK) (Track 3).bin
Chicken Run (UK) (Track 4).bin
Chicken Run (UK) (Track 5).bin
Chicken Run (UK).cue 

if we try to load the zip package directly in a dreamcast emulator it will not play.

Solution:

Unzip the package and compress it using chdman from Mame32 suite. 

Chd file format is a compressed format containing all files needed in a single one.

But chdman tool accept only one cue file at a time.

So, we can use my software, RomPrioTool, similarly as described in the previous post.

We have to set source directory, temp directory, point to the chdman.exe executable file previously downloaded, destination directory and if we want to remove the zip from the source directory.

Then we click on "unzip to chd" button, zip package will be unzipped on temp directory, then passed into chdman, for every zip present in the source directory.

Based on our example, as a result we will have "Chicken Run (UK).chd" file in the destination directory that we can directly load on the emulator. And we start from a 1GB zip to a 870MB chd.

Tested with dreamcast, ps1, sega saturn, pilips cdi, panasonic 3do, amiga cd32, nec pcfx.

Do not use folders with spaces in the name.