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burn1nator:
just a regular joe trying to get some Roms working with imame4all on my ipad. Im decent with computers so i have played with the clrmamepro program to try to figure out how to convert the roms to get them to work with the version of imame4all as they said on the website to do. This is what it says.
Please use "clrmame.dat" file included (dont know how to use it to convert roms) in /var/mobile/Media/ROMs/iMAME4all to convert romsets from other MAME versions to the ones used by this version, using ClrMAME Pro utility, available in next webpage:
http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/

I have tried using clrmamepro and pretty much click on everything and see what it does, from mergin to non split, etc. I have looked at the .dat file and tried to understand how to convert the romsets so i can get the roms to work on imame4all. Im not trying to do anything fancy like you guys do (you guys get pretty technical here) i just want to be able to upload some ROMS to my ipad and play some metal slug and other great games(love those neo geo games).

If you can please point me in the right direction, i would appreciate it SOOOO much!!!

I am a Newbie but i can follow your instructions pretty good.

Thank you for your help and time.

Roman:
If I remember correctly imame4all is based on a really really old version of MAME, i.e. the used sets/roms are most likely outdated or highly differ from the current MAME .143 version.

So...assuming this datfile you are speaking of is a valid one for imame4all, you need to do the following:

- load the datfile in the profiler, let it create a default profile for it
- go to settings, setup a rompath, let it point to a new, empty folder
- since you want to do a conversion, next stop is the rebuilder: let the rebuilder destination point to your setup empty rompath. rebuilder source should point to your collection of roms, not sorted ones, most likely belonging to current MAME. select the prefered merge mode (I don't know what imame4all supports...maybe go with split). Hit the rebuild button (recompression can be turned off) and wait....

That will create all valid files (for imame) from your current collection.

So you most likely miss the old outdated ones. You can double check by scanning the created ones...So go to the scanner, keep all default settings and scan....it will report what is missing, what is wrong. You can turn on the fix options to get things resolved but of course no new files are magically created. You need to find them. You can add them again via the rebuilder for example...


Hope that helped a bit...

burn1nator:
Thx man i will try that later on and will get back to you.

burn1nator:
I have tried what you told me and it seems like everything went fine. Loaded the .dat file and change the settings. Hit rebuilder and removed the recompress files. I hit the scan and its scanning a shit load of them.

Didnt seem to fix anything. It shows all the active sets, doesnt show Parents, Clones or BIOS. (I am missing the BIOS's for the neo geo games? do i need them?).

Active ROMS is the same.

Probably didnt do it right, but i followed what you told me and it seems to work on rebuilding them with the .dat file from imame4all. I load the files into the ipad but some of them dont even show in the menu.

Any ideas?

Thx

EDIT: what i have noticed is that imame4all onn the ipad only shows a few. After checking the converted files, it only shows the same as the ipad and for some reason it doesnt show several. (source and converted dont match in ROM files). Could the roms be bad? i do see 2 of the metal slug games but it says that its missing files, and other stuff.

Even tho i have Baseball Stars, A Wild West game with Cows, and all the Metal Slug games, only 2 Metal Slug games show and they dont work. Hope that help determine what my problem is.

The Scan results show this: unneeded file ROMS\btoads.zip,excitek.zip,megaman2.zip,moo.zip,mslug3.zip,mslug4.zip,mslug5.zip,mslugx.zip,smash5sp.zip,spdodgeb.zip

I dont know what it means when it says that the file was Unneeded.

Roman:
well first of all for the rebuild I said to disable the "recompress files" option, not to remove compressed files ;)

secondly, the scanner fixes issues if you enable the fix options. And of course it can only fix things which are fixable, i.e. if the scanner lists a wrongly named file, fine, it can rename it to the correct name. It can't magically create a missing file if you don't have it somewhere.

So actually, after doing a rebuild and doing a scan (scan the fresh rebuilt files) you should only get errors for missing files then.

So maybe you should send in a screenshot of the scanner output tree.....

and finally: you have to differ between a correct and valid set and working games. These things have nothing to do with each other. You can have a 100% valid set but if the emulator doesn't play it, it's the emulator's fault. MAME includes hundreds of not working (not fullly emulated) games.

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