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Title: Problem with wrong cases
Post by: haynor666 on 06 March 2016, 09:29

Latest mame seems to bring some problems with upper/lower cases for example Dark Seal or Karate Tournament. I've rebuilded whole mame 171 set and after scan clrmame ask me to fix upper/lover cases even if I've just rebuilded whole set. Any advise what's wrong ?

Title: Re: Problem with wrong cases
Post by: Roman on 06 March 2016, 09:35

sounds weird...the rebuilder will aleays use the correct naming which of course includes case.
with latest mame you mean 171 or a nighly developer release?

can you provide some more info like e.g. a scanner screenshot, used merge mode etc....

Title: Re: Problem with wrong cases
Post by: haynor666 on 06 March 2016, 10:07

No merge just split sets. Version 171 with latest clrmamepro.

Title: Re: Problem with wrong cases
Post by: Roman on 06 March 2016, 16:15

any chance to send me the archives?

Title: Re: Problem with wrong cases
Post by: haynor666 on 06 March 2016, 18:54

Sure, I've sent PM.

Title: Re: Problem with wrong cases
Post by: Roman on 06 March 2016, 19:16

thanks...a quick look shows something interesting.
While fixing the case isn't a problem here with the scanner, the rebuilder seems to have a problem with Karatour...which is really interesting since it's the 1st rebuilder problem since a decade or so ;-)
Looking at .171 I see that karatour and its clone karatourj share the same roms but use lower and upper case....definetly something hmm..not so clever in MAME's database...but definetly something the rebuilder should be able to handle...

so...yeah...you "found" something.

Title: Re: Problem with wrong cases
Post by: Roman on 06 March 2016, 20:28

ok..it's not rebuilder's fault...but when reading in the dat cmpro's structures get a bit messy...basically due to the bad naming in MAME...
will need some brainstorming how this can get fixed....(or I submit fixed names to MAME ;-))

Title: Re: Problem with wrong cases
Post by: haynor666 on 07 March 2016, 22:53

Thanks Roman. It's not the first time when something gets a small mess in mame :)

Title: Re: Problem with wrong cases
Post by: Roman on 08 March 2016, 21:33

well, it's fixed now for the next version (of clrmamepro)

Title: Re: Problem with wrong cases
Post by: haynor666 on 09 March 2016, 11:53

Thanks Roman. Did You informed mame devs about this or this just fixed in clrmamepro ?

Title: Re: Problem with wrong cases
Post by: Roman on 09 March 2016, 12:41

Well, I've "fixed" it in cmpro for now...however I don't see a reason why MAME should keep the weird naming like

rom name="361a07.17d" merge="361A07.17D" size="1048576" ....