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clrmamepro [English] => clrmame Discussion => Topic started by: mps on 12 November 2009, 11:20

Title: Will this work
Post by: mps on 12 November 2009, 11:20

An obvious a noob question, sorry if it has been asked a million times.

I have a complete set of mame .128 roms.
I am half way downloading mame roms version .134
Now mame version .135 roms are out.

What a want to do is fill in the missing and partially downloaded roms from my .128 set and join the .135 torrent.

Can someone give me a couple of high level steps to complete and I will work out the rest. That way at least I will know that CLRMAMEPRO is the tool to use.

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Will this work
Post by: Roman on 12 November 2009, 11:50

Profiler -> load dat file for MAME .135 (or even better, use Create-> and import the data from the MAME .135 binary)
Settings-> setup rompath to point to your current 128 collection (setup sample paths optionally if you use them)
Scanner -> keep set+roms+chds+samples(if needed) enabled and enable all check and fix options and hit scan.

After that, you .128 collection is fixed for .135 but of course you will miss all new and replaced files.
Now you can drag'n drop (which internally runs the rebuilder) your .134 and .135 romsets into the scanner, cmpro will add them to the correct place.

Repeat this until a scan doesn't show any issues in the scan results tree anymore.


Beware: the chd format changed some versions ago, you need to update all chds via "chdman.exe -update".

Title: Re: Will this work
Post by: mps on 13 November 2009, 00:38

Thanks Roman, this program is brilliant. I did not know you could do a drag and drop so that makes it even better.

Title: Re: Will this work
Post by: Roman on 27 November 2009, 14:08

thanks ;)