thanks for the link, I got a lot of games at my work with hard drives that are randomly locking up and all that fun stuff. glad to know I have a resource in case my drives are FUBAR.
and yes, you can decompress the CHD to a hard drive for use with an arcade machine. another testament to the ownage that is MAME (for its original purpose, that is).
I know that's for KI, but it works for any CHD and hard drive. beautiful part about the latter Midway/Atari games is they take any hard drive, no hacked roms like KI/KI2 necessary.
Everything is working now. I get the 3 strikes message when using the CF drive, but it works fine afterwards. I just needed a god CHD file. Most of the sites out there are full of junk and other things.
Everyone else gets these messages with GL and CF cards...
My guess is this:
1 - Either there is a slight delay at boot. Perhaps if the CF powered on first and then the PCB the game would load better
2 - Some kind of disk check fails -specific to a HD not a CF
3 - CF adapter