Convert ISOs and archives into CD CHD for emulation
Convert ISOs and archives into CD CHD for emulation.
If you use RetroArch or possibly any emulator that supports CHD files, then you might want to convert your ISO and CUE+BIN files to it. It is a compressed single file format. The helper tool chdman from the MAME tools can do that. And often the files are in archives, so they need to be extracted first in a temporary folder, which 7z does. No need for manual extraction, this script takes care. I wanted automate all of this and it started as a simple Bash script, but later on decided to utilize Python.
The script was created with Python 3.10 on Linux in mind and may not work on other environments, as it was not tested otherwise. It makes