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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
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