It is a commmand line application and creating a. Verify the …May 28, 2010CHD files can be created using the chdman program, developed by the MAME project. Decide whether or not you need to partition / format the NEW disk. Connect the hard drive or CF that you want to extract to either internally or / USB /firewire/etc. If you’re a mac user: Download SDL MAME or other version with the ‘chdman’ command line program.