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    Hi all, I'm sorry for my poor english. I'm new new here and I'm writing from Pisa, Italy. I've downloaded (from the torrent link posted in Emuparadise) the complete CHD set for MAME, about 350 GB. I've put the folders with the CHD files in the Roms folder. I made the refresh, using MAME 0.181 and the icons of most of games are black or red. I've tested all'these games (about 400) and all of these with black and red icon are not working. Is it possible this? The problem is in the CHD files or in the emulator? Thanks in advance

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    Do you just have the chd's or do you have the roms that go with them aswell

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    Hi Zorlon, thanks for Your reply. I've the CHDs and the correspondent .zip files. I've put all in the Roms folder. There are working games, like Street Fighter III or Area51 but there are a lot of games that are not working

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    MAME has drivers for games that both work and do not work

    If MAME is missing roms or CHD's or has incorrect versions it normally tells you this and will state that game x is missing roms or chd's before it will even try and play it if you click it to run

    If MAME reports that a game has issues the game will either run but have issues that you may or may not be able to notice or the game will simply not run or take an age to show anything

    You can also audit games from most gui versions of MAME, just right click a game and an audit option will show, what that does is scan for the files needed by that game and reports back if anything is missing

    Most of the games that use CHD's though are none working games
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    OK, I've just deleted most of the CHD games (about 350 GB)

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