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clrmame Discussion / Re: Assembly required -- Part II -- Where to store CHD's

« on: 26 April 2010, 13:21 »

Roman

I think Paypal is better for those of us in the US--at least I can't figure out how to get my US amazon to play nicely with the German site.  And, my German is almost non-existent-- 18 months in Berlin, but that was a very long time ago (Ah..thinking about Sabina....)

Will try to get something to you in the next few days-- I hate Paypal.  Thanks again for all the help to all of us.

-glenn

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Assembly required -- Part II -- Where to store CHD's

« on: 18 April 2010, 15:24 »

Roman -- thanks again for all your expertise.

I think I get it now:

ROM SETS = compressed (zip) folder.
CHDs = regular system folder.

Go ahead and combine all under one ROM folder and let the apps sort it all out.

I went ahead and tried rebuilding to my main roms folder (as destination)--this seemed to do do the trick for me.  But I must have 5 or 6 backups of ROMS and CHDs (about 200GB per bu) floating around on my computer.

Thank you again for all your help

-glenn

BTW -- is your wish list up to date?  Thought I could chip in for something small (I'd like to get you the TV, but ...)  :-)

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clrmame Discussion / Assembly required -- Part II -- Where to store CHD's

« on: 17 April 2010, 22:32 »

Roman,

On rebuilding I directed the output to a FINAL directory.  The rebuilder ran great, found a few missing ROMS in the backup folders and I am complete -- 0 missing sets, ROMs, or CHDs.

BUT -- now I have three stores of files:

1) the FINAL directory with all the rebuilt ROMS
2) A CHDs folder with about 80 percent of my CHDS
3) about 20 percent of my CHDs are in the original source folder where they were included in the same folders as the ROMs -- the Rebuilder skips CHDs when it rebuilds the ROMs sets.

I am planning on using Hyperspin as my front-end.  I am confused on Sets/folders, and how to structure them for Hyperspin. 

Suppose I have a GameX ROM in a zip file in my ROMs folder. 
And I have a GameX zip or folder in my CHD folder with the CHD. 

Should I try to merge (file merge not CLRMame merge) these two folders?  I am concerned because it seems that Hyperspin is looking for one ROM (and CHD) directory.

What should I do with the CHDs that were originally in the source ROM sets but were not copied over to the FINAL directory?   It seems to me that I could try to add them individually to my ROM folders in FINAL, but then if I have to rebuild again that I would be causing myself extra work.  Should I create new folders for each of these and put them in my CHDs directory?

Would it be better for me to REBUILD again and specify my Source ROM directory as the target of the rebuild?  I think that this would leave the CHDs in place but I am not sure.

Thank you again for your help and program.  And your patience :-)
-glenn

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Some Assembly Required -- NOOB ??? (I have searched, read tutorials, and videos)

« on: 16 April 2010, 12:50 »

Roman, thanks again for your help and your program.

Yes, My ROM paths are VERY messy; so I need to do a little clean up.

 -glenn

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clrmame Discussion / Some Assembly Required -- NOOB ??? (I have searched, read tutorials, and videos)

« on: 16 April 2010, 03:20 »

I really appreciate all the work here.  I have a few questions and I was hoping someone could get me straight.

1) I have Roms in several different paths and CHDs in two others.  What I would like to do is put all of these in a single target directory.  I THINK that Rebuilder might do this: 
     1) set the ROM paths in the Addpath Settings
     2) Rebuild using addpath
     3) set a target directory and run

Is this right?  Is there another way to combine a bunch of ROM paths and get rid of extraneous copies of ROMS?  What should the output be (not sure whether the norm is compressed, re-compressed etc).  Most of my starting directories are already compressed but some are uncompressed folders

2) Is it generally a good idea to combine ROMs and CHDs in a single directory from the point of maintenance?

3) Also -- some of my missing CHDs are displayed in a blue font in the Scan results.  Does this color denote a particular significance?

4) Almost all of my missing CHDs are Konami Viper Bios.  Is there a problem with these CHds in 137 or is this just a massive coincidence?

Thanks to all and especially to Roman for his hard work.