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clrmamepro [English] => clrmame Discussion => Topic started by: AntoPISA on 24 February 2025, 09:37

Title: Old samples dat needed
Post by: AntoPISA on 24 February 2025, 09:37

Hi Roman,
a particular request, which goes a bit beyond the usual use of ClrMAME:
I need, starting from the MAME xml, to recreate the dat of the samples only. Can you suggest me how I could do it with your tool?
I was thinking of performing a scan on empty folders and then, after selecting only the samples, saving a "fix-dat"; the problem is that all the machines that use it would also be included and instead I would only need those that have a zip package (or 7z).
How could I do it?
Same thing (but less urgent) regarding the BIOS only.

Cheers.

Title: Re: Old samples dat needed
Post by: Roman on 24 February 2025, 10:23

That won't work for sample since MAME's XML does not hold any size/crc32/sha1 information for the samples. The created fix dat won't list them with hashes, just with their names.

You can use dir2dat on an existing folder...but then you need to be sure that the folder contains correct files.

Title: Re: Old samples dat needed
Post by: AntoPISA on 24 February 2025, 13:50

So I'm looking for another way, thank you anyway.