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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning complains that there is no valid sets in rompath!!!

« on: 26 February 2013, 00:28 »

Can you explain why disabling sets is bad? Why is the option there in the first place then? 

I've scanned all my art files and everything checks out ok.

However, I am willing to give it a try but I want to be sure on how to setup properly.
So here's what I am going to start from scratch and re-run the mame extraction so that I end up with:
I:\Mame
    +------artwork
    +------ctrlr     <-- contains not compressed files
    +------docs
    +------hash
    +------hlsl
    +------roms        <-- contains compressed files, one per game
    +------samples    <-- contains compressed files, one per game
     [files... like mame.exe, mame.ini]

I'll then create the following structure inside the artwork folder:
    +------artwork
              +-------artwork     <-- bezels and layouts, one zip per game
              +-------bkground   <-- contains not compressed files
              +-------cabinets     <-- contains not compressed files
              +-------cpanel        <-- contains not compressed files
              +-------flyers         <-- contains not compressed files
              +-------icons          <-- contains not compressed files
              +-------manuals     <-- contains not compressed files
              +-------marquees   <-- contains not compressed files
              +-------pcb            <-- contains not compressed files
              +-------snap          <-- contains not compressed files
              +-------titles          <-- contains not compressed files

Will I need to amend the mame.ini configuration file to add all those subfolders or is Mame smart enough to figure it out?

Also, for now the files inside the subfolders are uncompressed and although I could compress them using 7z and a solid archive (with a small solid size) I am not sure of the impact it would have on Mame upon loading a game. It would certainly make an impact on the storage size though...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Scanning complains that there is no valid sets in rompath!!!

« on: 25 February 2013, 12:15 »

Well, I have the following folder structure:
   I:\Mame
   I:\Mame\Cabinets
   I:\Mame\Roms
   I:\Mame\Samples
etc...

I could have a "cabinets" inside the I:\Mame\Cabinets but frankly that would seem odd.

However, I managed to do it by unchecking the "You want to scan sets" in the scanner.
Apart from having a message that it is bad having this disabled, everything succeeded.

Is there a better way?
May I suggest having the program determines that such a setup is fine?

Thank you and have a nice week.

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clrmame Discussion / Scanning complains that there is no valid sets in rompath!!!

« on: 24 February 2013, 18:29 »

Hi,

I've been trying to get clrmamepro to recognize the files in the cabinets folder using a DatFile but the program always telling me that all the files are unneeded. That is not so!!!! They are needed.

Can anyone tell me how to configure clrmamepro to properly scan the cabinets folder. As an aside, other folders are behaving the same.

Here how the datfile I have is configured:
<datafile>
  <header>
   ...
  </header>
  <game name="cabinets">
    <description>cabinets</description>
    <rom name="005.png" size="241910" crc="88effcb8" sha1="a8a14256a58a226d3425bc9222c552762c62ebd3"/>
    ....
  </game>
</datafile>

My cabinets files are located in I:\Mame\Cabinets

I've tried setting the ROMPATH for clrmamepro to I:\Mame\Cabinets
I've tried disabling SETS from the scanner

Thank you for any help.