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clrmame Discussion / Difference in CMP & scannerui with SL
« on: 07 August 2024, 04:47 »
Roman,
Couple of questions that just popped up for me on this MAME update and some peculiar results I got scanning the software lists.
If you look at the 2 attached png's you'll see all the missing chd's from the scans. First scan I had all the missing files in the correct places and CMP said everything was fine. I then scanned it with the latest new scanner and it told me I had a lot of unneeded files so I went through and moved all those files aside manually( Whilst doing this I also came across some unneeded directories and some that were misnamed and fixed those thanks to your new scanner.).
Re-scanned and scanner was A-OK now but CMP told me I was missing all those files. I also noticed that all of the files were clones so I dug a little deeper into the xml's. All the files are the same or share others with parents they just have a different file in the set. Either a different 1st or 2nd chd or as I found out, especially with the fmtowns_cd SL, they have a floppy to boot from that the other doesn't.
My scans were done with the same MAME.exe on the same drive with the last CMP and the latest new scanner version. I do this with every new release every month so here's my questions:
Why hasn't the new scanner pointed these out before v.268? Something that was changed?
I have them both set to split sets so the new scanner is correct but CMP is wrong?
I didn't see any changes to those specific SL's this month so I'm just trying to figure out what changed. These are the same files I've been scanning and fixing since they were added to MAME.
Sorry this got a little longer than I wanted...
Otherwise it seems that your new scanner is doing a great job! Saved me about 4gb of unneeded files this month.
Again, thanks for all your hard work!! A lot of people out here really appreciate what you're doing!
Couple of questions that just popped up for me on this MAME update and some peculiar results I got scanning the software lists.
If you look at the 2 attached png's you'll see all the missing chd's from the scans. First scan I had all the missing files in the correct places and CMP said everything was fine. I then scanned it with the latest new scanner and it told me I had a lot of unneeded files so I went through and moved all those files aside manually( Whilst doing this I also came across some unneeded directories and some that were misnamed and fixed those thanks to your new scanner.).
Re-scanned and scanner was A-OK now but CMP told me I was missing all those files. I also noticed that all of the files were clones so I dug a little deeper into the xml's. All the files are the same or share others with parents they just have a different file in the set. Either a different 1st or 2nd chd or as I found out, especially with the fmtowns_cd SL, they have a floppy to boot from that the other doesn't.
My scans were done with the same MAME.exe on the same drive with the last CMP and the latest new scanner version. I do this with every new release every month so here's my questions:
Why hasn't the new scanner pointed these out before v.268? Something that was changed?
I have them both set to split sets so the new scanner is correct but CMP is wrong?
I didn't see any changes to those specific SL's this month so I'm just trying to figure out what changed. These are the same files I've been scanning and fixing since they were added to MAME.
Sorry this got a little longer than I wanted...
Otherwise it seems that your new scanner is doing a great job! Saved me about 4gb of unneeded files this month.
Again, thanks for all your hard work!! A lot of people out here really appreciate what you're doing!