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clrmame Discussion / How to best deal with progetto-SNAPs?

« on: 28 July 2023, 16:57 »

Hello,

handling progetto-SNAPs DAT files has become increasingly painful over time. I have the zipped files, snap.zip and titles.zip stored in a SMB mount, each in its own rompath. Until now it was slow-ish but manageable, however attempting to scan 0.254 zip with 0.256 DAT file (pS_Snap_NS_20230728_(cm).zip) in preparation for a rebuild has not completed for over an hour. I already have missing check disabled, same for the deeper check. I have now moved the file to a local SSD just to see if the network is the culprit but the scan has been going on for several minutes now. The last sign of life is the query whether I want to delete the incorrectly sized files.
Should the files be stored unzipped or zipped? [1] says that speed is gained by not compressing but [2] says that unpacked sets are slow as the hashes need to be recalculated instead of being picked up from the zipfile itself. Thanks for the input.

[1] https://www.emulab.it/forum/index.php?topic=4112.0
[2] https://www.emulab.it/forum/index.php?topic=4055.0

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clrmame Discussion / feature request: add "are you sure" prompt to uninstaller

« on: 18 March 2019, 06:42 »

Hello,
I am running clrmame pro via wine under linux. For reasons unknown, under gnome, if you press the windows button and start typing clrm...., uninstaller entry sometimes comes up first. If you couple that with the fact that there are no prompts in the uninstaller and that all settings are gone once the uninstaller is finished, you can see how easy it is to accidentally shoot yourself in the foot (it happened to me again today, I guess I should not touch clrmamepro before finishing my coffee lol). Having a prompt would allow the user to prevent that from happening. Thank you for considering!

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clrmame Discussion / clrmame-compatible folder set-up incl. software list roms

« on: 30 December 2018, 13:29 »

Hello,
what is the "official" way of keeping software list roms organised in folders? Right now, I have a roms folder with saturn folder containing saturn chds as well as saturn.zip containing saturn bios. While mame can deal with this particular layout, clrmamepro considers the chds to be unneeded additions to the bios files and wants to delete them.
On the other hand, if I create a separate folder for software list roms and put the software list roms subfolders in there:

• roms/saturn.zip
• software/saturn/*.chd

clrmame complains that sysdefpaths are not rompaths. If I confirm I don't want to have them added as rompaths, the problem with deleting softlist roms is gone. I was wondering if there is a better way of dealing with this. Thanks!

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clrmame Discussion / scanning progettosnaps extended icons 0.204 takes forever

« on: 22 December 2018, 12:12 »

Hello,
I am trying to update my progettosnaps extended icon set to 0.204 the usual way (scan, rebuild, scan). For reasons yet unknown, the first scan is taking forever (I have waited for half an hour at least). I was able to update snap and titles zips without problems using the same settings, icons is the only one causing trouble.
If I stop the scan, a prompt to remove ablast.ico appears. How can I get more information regarding what is causing the issue? Thank you!

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clrmame Discussion / problem when scanning progetto-SNAPS snap and titles

« on: 30 October 2016, 23:02 »

Hello,
I believe something has gone south in my clrmamepro setup. I have added the new dats for 0.178 progetto-SNAPS snaps and titles, did a rebuild followed by a scan as usual. For some reason, clrmamepro is now listing all .pngs for both sets as missing, even though they do exist in the zip files. Any ideas why this might be happening? It's with 64-bit cmpro-4.031b running under wine.

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clrmame Discussion / cannot scan through ingame and title snaps - gets stuck on sc4chaina.png

« on: 01 October 2012, 19:07 »

Hi,

I have posted this on mameworld before but I think this is a better place. Long story short, I have been using clrmamepro under wine/Fedora Linux since forever and everything was dandy.
A problem arose with the latest ProgettoSNAPS release (0.147). When I am trying so scan either title or ingame snaps, clrmame gets stuck when "testing unneeded" reaches sc4chaina.png. Is it just too many files or something? I am happy to provide more info if this helps resolving the problem. TIA.