> Hey Roman, I just moved my *.chds *out* of their various directories and placed
> them directly into the \ROMs directory along w/ all the other zips. [easier to
> carve up 4G chunks for back up purposes]
>
> Now when I do a scan w/ clrmame it's hitting the *.chds and taking *a lot*
> longer than it did when they were in their sub-directories? Regular zip
> checking speed is unchanged.
>
> Was the code branch treating them differently if they were stored that way vs in
> the flat \ROMs directory?
>
> --
> john iv
> http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32qa
>


It has nothing to do with the location of the chds but with the change I made in hmm...3.40 or something. Since some people faked chds by simply adding small files which only got the few chd headerbytes, I decided to read the sectormap of the chds, too. This takes a bit longer (esp. for hyperdrv ;)). Maybe I change that or change it to a quicker but still accurate check.

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro