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clrmamepro [English] => clrmame Discussion => Topic started by: yescabernetnointernet on 21 August 2022, 14:45

Title: [SOLVED] Profiler: CANNOT manually add M. A. M. E.'s XML (-listxml)
Post by: yescabernetnointernet on 21 August 2022, 14:45

Adding M. A. M. E.'s XML (-listxml) via "Profiler > Add DatFile..." is NOT recognized by clrmame: the DatFile is not detected, although the corresponding "mame.dat" file is generated (alongside "mame.xml").

mame.xml:

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mame.exe -listxml > mame.xml
It only works with the official MAME 0.nnn full driver information in XML format (https://github.com/mamedev/mame/releases/download/mame0246/mame0246lx.zip) (downloaded from https://www.mamedev.org/release.php (https://www.mamedev.org/release.php) ).

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One interesting thing is the two XML files differs in size:

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## MAME 0.246 full driver information in XML format ##
mame0246.xml
size = 271978244 bytes
SHA-1 = F53FE5CDCB5207F586CCD34070367E0FB87FA51C

## mame.exe -listxml > mame.xml ##
mame.xml
size = 543956490 bytes
SHA-1 = F9D6669071371A357627A64CB3A1273BE0BE3C4D

Title: Re: [PROFILER] CANNOT manually add M. A. M. E.'s XML (-listxml)
Post by: Roman on 21 August 2022, 17:48

????
What file are you talking about?
The full driver xml from the official page (https://github.com/mamedev/mame/releases/download/mame0246/mame0246lx.zip) works fine and also a simple redirected mame -listxml.

Maybe you've compiled one yourself and the -listxml output is simply broken/incomplete (which can happen on not clean compiles).

Title: Re: [PROFILER] CANNOT manually add M. A. M. E.'s XML (-listxml)
Post by: yescabernetnointernet on 21 August 2022, 19:03

The file has been generated using the official mame.exe (https://github.com/mamedev/mame/releases/download/mame0246/mame0246b_64bit.exe) (https://www.mamedev.org/release.php (https://www.mamedev.org/release.php)).
Maybe some bug using it inside PowerShell?
I'll try with Command Prompt as soon as I can.

Title: Re: [PROFILER] CANNOT manually add M. A. M. E.'s XML (-listxml)
Post by: Roman on 22 August 2022, 06:59

Powershell redirects data in utf16 by default (and redirecting is very slow in powershell, too).
So you need to run it with utf8 encoding in powershell:

mame.exe -listxml | out-file mame.xml -encoding utf8

If you only need to use the data in clrmamepro, you don't even need to run this manually, you can simply use Profiler->Create and let cmpro point to your mame exe file.

Title: Re: [PROFILER] CANNOT manually add M. A. M. E.'s XML (-listxml)
Post by: yescabernetnointernet on 24 August 2022, 20:02

Quote from: Roman on 22 August 2022, 06:59

So you need to run it with utf8 encoding in powershell:

mame.exe -listxml | out-file mame.xml -encoding utf8

Thank you Roman!  8) SOLVED.  ;)