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clrmame Discussion / Re: clrmame is losing or deleting sets

« on: 03 December 2012, 10:04 »

well, I'm currently at work so I can't check it for now...
regarding "parse rom merge options"...It is disabled because:

- the merge tags in the (MAME) dats were too often too wrong in the past (pointing to wrong roms, holding wrong checksum information and so on). Actually during cleaning up the datfile I've added verification tests in the past to fix such bad merge tags automatically....

- I'm more a fan of having the correct number of files in the sets with the correct naming....even when fully merging the sets you can differ the clone names then..(so you got multiple files with the same checksum and different names). In days of multi terabyte hds and users who do collect mame roms, space shouldn't be an argument here...I still wonder why people switch to 7z because of this...


what I wonder about:

"Without  "Parge ROM Merge Tags"  ticked CMP will report 5 missing ROMs,
on a simulated update from 0.147 to 0.147u3.. (my mini.dats)
With a Merged Set, either ZIP or 7z.. (When in fact, the files are in the archive)"

Where does it report them? In the stats? Well...the only correct values are the scan tree view. Don't care about the stats at the end...I never claimed they are correct...since they rely on so many factors. If nothing is in the treeview you're done.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: clrmame is losing or deleting sets

« on: 03 December 2012, 08:40 »

So since people tell me that there is a post on pleasure dome form (which I cannot access) on this...

Can anyone clearly say there is or there is not a problem, and if there is, can send me a scenario for it?

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clrmame Discussion / Re: HOW TO: exclude romsets from scan (e.g. gambling, mechanical, CHDs, etc)

« on: 02 December 2012, 21:33 »

nice....

just a comment, the filter settings separated by semicolon in set information form a boolean OR, not an AND, so using the "logical not" checkbox forms a not(a) or not(b) or not(c)....which may not what you expect....so for such cases the invert button is usually better....

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clrmame Discussion / Re: clrmame is losing or deleting sets

« on: 02 December 2012, 21:30 »

long thread...and actually I just (22:20) came back from a weekend trip....and after a long drive I'm too tired to read the full thread....
actually I will check oxyandy's "Hi Roman,Here is two mini dats and an archive..." setup in the next days to see what's going on...

Before checking, of course people have to be aware that:
- deleted files from 7z archives are moved to backup but in a zip archive
- there are some cases (depends on the parent/clone changes from one dat to another and the order of the sets), where you need to rebuild files from backup to get them back. This is intended.
- there are some cases where a scan shows missing sets and you simply have to do a fastscan to get the clear result.
- if you don't care about dupes you need to use profiler's option to parse rom merge tags
- if you do care about fake clones (fully identical sets), there's also a setting there...

It's absolutely needed to send me scenario where I can rebuild issues. So a minimum combination of cmpro (with settings, cmpro.ini, datfile) and a minimum set of roms. I want to press a button and see the problem.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Using "Rename Profile" causes XML dat corruption

« on: 30 November 2012, 20:27 »

Your dat does not have an utf8-bom....
(use e.g. notepad++ to save it as utf8 (with bom) and it shows up fine in the profiler)

It's an old style dat (not xml), so it needs a bom....only XML files are taken as utf8 by default...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Using "Rename Profile" causes XML dat corruption

« on: 30 November 2012, 08:49 »

ok...can't promise to show something today...more likely next week.....

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Using "Rename Profile" causes XML dat corruption

« on: 30 November 2012, 08:08 »

oxyandy, so what are you reporting? A display issue for utf8 dat descriptions in the profiler? ...and a request to make the compressor settings wider?

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clrmame Discussion / Re: clrmamepro with torrent7z support?

« on: 30 November 2012, 08:06 »

There is no plan to support t7z.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Using "Rename Profile" causes XML dat corruption

« on: 28 November 2012, 22:05 »

use this:
http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/binaries/cmpro20121128.rar

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clrmame Discussion / Christian L.

« on: 26 November 2012, 10:20 »

Christian,

since I don't have your email handy, thanks a lot for your little present! Highly appreciated.

cheers
Roman

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Localization

« on: 25 November 2012, 19:15 »

no, not yet, however I appreciate your work on writing a guide for it....
I'd like to do this for years....but real life takes all my time at the moment

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clrmame Discussion / Re: i am using the latest cmpro

« on: 25 November 2012, 08:30 »

what do you mean with extra files

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clrmame Discussion / Re: i am using the latest cmpro

« on: 23 November 2012, 07:33 »

"Fix unneeded" or "fix name" (actually I can't remember will move them automatically.....as long as they do not exists already a second time at the correct place.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Drag/Drop in Windows 8

« on: 31 October 2012, 20:32 »

well, haven't tried Windows 8 yet and don't actually plan to look at it very soon.....but maybe it's the common drag'n drop behaviour as it was introduced with Windows Vista. You cannot do drag'n drop operations between a source and a destination with different user access rights. That happens in Vista and 7, too....normally people can get around it by *not* installing cmpro in an UAC protected folder or running it with exclusive administrator rights.
So you might want to check such things first....

...I'm not the owner of the forum and can't influence any signup messages.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: cmpro 4.08b released

« on: 25 October 2012, 19:42 »

Go to scanner->set information (button in scan tree window, bottom left), go to select sets input box and enter
%D=good
and hit apply...this will enable all sets which got driverstatus = good in the datfile (depending on the additional checkboxes you might include clones, parents, devices, etc...). Then you can either scan/rebuild/merge this subset or export the dat (which then only includes the selected sets).

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News & Communication / cmpro 4.08b released

« on: 24 October 2012, 21:26 »

4.08b

added: parsing of driver status flag (good|imperfect|preliminary), %D can be used for set selection
misc:  some minor optimization for fix missing if one and the same checksum reappears in the same set
fixed: 7z utf8 name reading was broken since switch to sdk 9.22 in 4.08 (used local code page instead)
fixed: wrong "wrong placed" / "unneeded" prompt when there are softwarelist/non-softwarelist chd clashes
fixed: wrong prompt for possible rompath addition for disabled sysdefpaths standard/device/mechanical

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clrmame Discussion / cmpro 4.08b released

« on: 24 October 2012, 21:06 »

4.08b

added: parsing of driver status flag (good|imperfect|preliminary), %D can be used for set selection
misc:  some minor optimization for fix missing if one and the same checksum reappears in the same set
fixed: 7z utf8 name reading was broken since switch to sdk 9.22 in 4.08 (used local code page instead)
fixed: wrong "wrong placed" / "unneeded" prompt when there are softwarelist/non-softwarelist chd clashes
fixed: wrong prompt for possible rompath addition for disabled sysdefpaths standard/device/mechanical

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clrmame Discussion / Re: cmpro 4.08a released

« on: 19 October 2012, 20:57 »

well...doh...the new 7z sdk example code converts the utf16 filename in the file into a codepage encoded string...changed that to utf8 and the file is read correctly now...so you get a fix with the next version...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: cmpro 4.08a released

« on: 19 October 2012, 12:46 »

well..actually I use the 7z sdk code to get the name...
as I said...I will check it later...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: cmpro 4.08a released

« on: 19 October 2012, 08:20 »

guess there is a small utf8 reading issue with the latest 7z...

wrong name: C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\rs\Desktop\test\Advanced Destroyer Simulator (Francés) & Crete 1941 & Nebulus\Advanced Destroyer Simulator (Franc‚s) & Crete 1941 & Nebulus.dsk [wrong: Advanced Destroyer Simulator (Franc‚s) & Crete 1941 & Nebulus.ds [...]

Francés vs Franc‚s

I will check the 7z reader later tonight....