Leo was a retro-gaming archivist, a digital grave robber for the golden age of arcades. He knew MAME—the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. And he knew CHDs—Compressed Hunks of Data. They were the massive, lossless hard drive images needed to run the later, more complex arcade games like Killer Instinct or CarnEvil .
MAME uses CHD files to accurately emulate the experience of playing arcade games that originally used hard disk drives. When you run a game in MAME that requires a CHD, the emulator reads the CHD file as if it were the original hard disk drive. This allows for an authentic gaming experience, including loading screens, game data, and any interactive elements stored on the disk. mame chds
: Move the CHD file (e.g., kinst.chd ) into that new subfolder. Leo was a retro-gaming archivist, a digital grave