View source for Burn CHD files to play on original gaming systems

.CHD files contain binary data that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAME MAME] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_Emulator_Super_System MESS] use for emulation. Typcially this is used in "newer" games with larger amounts of graphic/audio data, including CD based console systems like Sega CD.

[http://archive.org/ archive.org] has downloadable sets of these for various platforms (PC Engine, Sega CD, Sega Saturn, Arcade, etc). I'm not sure why they're publicly available, perhaps they're just under the radar. Here's how to grab one of these and burn it on to a disk to play in an original system.

This is all on my Linux desktop.

* Convert a CHD file to a .bin/.cue using [https://www.mankier.com/1/chdman chdman]. On my desktop (currently ubuntu) this was available in the '''mame-tools'' package. Here's what the flags mean:
** -i : input file the (.chd)
** -o :  output file (.cue)
** -ob : output binary (.bin)

 $ '''chdman extractcd -i "snatcher (sega cd) (u).chd" -o snatcher.cue -ob snatcher.bin'''
 
 chdman - MAME Compressed Hunks of Data (CHD) manager 0.152 (Mar 19 2014)
 Output TOC:   snatcher.cue
 Output Data:  snatcher.bin
 Input CHD:    snatcher (sega cd) (u).chd
 Extraction complete                                    

* The 338M .chd file is now a 597M .bin and 1.3k .cue

* I tried to find a native gui linux program that burns bin/cue but failed (Xfburn and Brasero both don't seem to), so we'll use '''cdrdao''' which had a package available in ubuntu.
** --speed 8 : attempt to write at a lower speed which may be more compatible. I chose 8, my burner chose 10 which may be the lowest it supports (an USB LG DVD burner)
** --device /dev/sr0 : my cd burner

 $ '''cdrdao write --speed 8 --device /dev/sr0 snatcher.cue'''
 
 Cdrdao version 1.2.3 - (C) Andreas Mueller <andreas@daneb.de>
 /dev/sr0: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM SP80NB60	Rev: PC00
 Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC - Version 2.0 (options 0x0000)
 
 Starting write at speed 10...
 Pausing 10 seconds - hit CTRL-C to abort.
 
 Process can be aborted with QUIT signal (usually CTRL-\).
 WARNING: No super user permission to setup real time scheduling.
 Turning BURN-Proof on
 Enabling JustLink.
 Executing power calibration...
 Power calibration successful.
 Writing track 01 (mode MODE1_RAW/MODE1_RAW )...
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 Wrote 602 of 602 MB (Buffers 100% 100%).
 Wrote 268813 blocks. Buffer fill min 100%/max 100%.
 Flushing cache...
 Writing finished successfully.


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