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clrmame Discussion / Re: [bug] version[64].ini check problem

« on: 08 January 2012, 07:56 »

I can only imagine that for some reason the version64.ini file was not found initially or was locked and that somehow confuses the system....well...case closed I guess

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clrmame Discussion / Re: [bug] version[64].ini check problem

« on: 07 January 2012, 18:32 »

hmm...I tried to reproduce this scenario but it works fine here...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: looking for datfile for mame v0.37b7

« on: 27 December 2011, 18:37 »

get the belonging mame binary from mamedev.org and load it in the profiler with Old_mame setting.
however there was one old mame binary at mamedev.org which had a broken -listinfo output. dont remember which one though.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Merry XMas...

« on: 22 December 2011, 21:32 »

ok to be a bit more concrete...

...it's some better software list support with the following features:

- software lists (not only one softwarelist) within a xml datfile are loaded
- when an exe-based dat (MAME, MESS, Haze's ultimate mame) lists software lists, you will be asked if you want to import them (all, some, none)
- software lists are then handled within 1 profile, so 1 scan scans them all
- software lists are added as systems, so you can (and actually have to) assign a system default path for each of them
- double set names / descriptions shouldn't harm

So that's what in the end should form the next version....I just started with parsing them (xml dat) and adding them as systems....so the exe-based dat part is on the todo list...the rest will be some testing for possible issue handling in case of equal set names within various lists...also there is an option question how to name a profile in case of a multi-softwarelist xml....(the single lists got names, the outer softwarelists tag does not)...

well...that's general something for 2012/Q1...no idea when I find time after the holiday season to work on it...but that's on my list for now...

Enjoy the holidays....

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clrmame Discussion / Merry XMas...

« on: 21 December 2011, 23:46 »

...and a Happy New Year...

Yes, holiday season is near and I'd like to thank you for all your support....
So while 2011 finally brought utf8/unicode support to cmpro, there are some tasks on my list for 2012...

So....shhh...there is something near for the *messy* users out there....
http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/images/wipXMas.jpg

...and if you wonder why Aladdin is listed so often...well.....shhhhh...come back in 2012
(...and the final look&feel might differ...currently it's more playing around a bit...)

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Newb without a clue!

« on: 19 December 2011, 09:48 »

see other post for my reply

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Newb without a clue!

« on: 19 December 2011, 09:48 »

I don't know where you find a datfile for Mame4Android. You need to use google.
The profiler is one of the main screens of cmpro. Actually it automatically opens if you enter cmpro.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Special character ("Umlaute") issue

« on: 14 December 2011, 08:15 »

I'm pretty sure the datfile is not utf8 encoded.....

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clrmame Discussion / deleted post about umlaute

« on: 12 December 2011, 06:31 »

Hi,

I wonder what I have done or what has happened to cause this?

Thanks

I have no idea how this happened. I did not remove your post or account. I only answered you need a datfile in utf8 encoded datfile.  try posting again. sorry for this

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Newb without a clue!

« on: 11 December 2011, 08:29 »

you need to load the datfile in the profiler. so double click it there (or select it and click on load). then you setup rompaths in settings and then you go to the scanner and scan.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Special character ("Umlaute") issue

« on: 10 December 2011, 22:15 »

you need to use a datfile which is utf8 encoded. you can try to load it into notepad++ and save it as utf8 encoded (with or without Utf8 bom). be sure the special chars appear in notepad++ correcly.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: [BUG] Scanner do not recognize sets if wrong name

« on: 05 December 2011, 20:53 »

get this:

http://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/binaries/20111205.rar

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clrmame Discussion / Re: [BUG] Scanner do not recognize sets if wrong name

« on: 05 December 2011, 19:46 »

Not a bug....with the double identical checksum you simply run into a not so perfect result of the fuzzy name check (which is used to determine the correct setname) and the threshold for a clean match is not reached....and so it's not marked as wrongly named and it is marked as unneeded.

I may tweak the threshhold parameters a bit for next release though.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Feature Request: More descriptive warnings

« on: 03 December 2011, 12:48 »

Such errors come from the libs (rar/7z/zip). Usually cmpro shows the belonging file as well in the warnings window...if not you usally also have the option to right-click the message to see all kind of options (which include the filename). I will check if this is not the case for the 2 mentioned messages...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: clrmamepro 4.02 released

« on: 01 December 2011, 08:44 »

well....if the box is not ticked, it *should* take the compression settings from the belonging profiles. So check if your profile got the compression settings set. So the mentioned option is only a general overwrite, otherwise it takes what it got in the single profiles.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Exclude-Paths question ?

« on: 28 November 2011, 13:28 »

don't tell me you just found a 10 year old feature....

...ok...next old feature...ALT + 2 in scanner, ALT + 1 in rebuilder...

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clrmame Discussion / Re: How to NOT scan/remove Mechanical games?

« on: 24 November 2011, 12:51 »

sorry I don't have such information. Easiest would be to have a look at the -listxml output to see which fields maybe useful for filtering.

exclude paths is by the way something else. To disable or filter out sets you go to scanner->setinformation->select sets.

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News & Communication / clrmamepro 4.02 released

« on: 23 November 2011, 20:56 »

clrmamepro 4.02

removed: scanner advanced option: check for dupes (it's enabled by default now)
removed: scanner advanced option: use optimized rompath scan (it's enabled by default now)
added: scanner info line besides setinformation button to indicate not enabled sets/systems/chd regions
added: unbind all button for system picker window
misc:  optimized time needed for sysdefpath autodetection (roughly 10x faster)
misc:  changed file attribute routines to win32 api to avoid assertions on illegal dates
fixed: system picker's last entries can't be edited
fixed: deprecated dat loader did not force utf8 encoding


well...nothing really big in there...real life comes first....but I do have things on my list like:
better softwarelist support, chd rebuild, some experimental scanner speedup and there are tons of tiny things collected over the years....such things are not forgotten....but I simply don't have that much time.

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clrmame Discussion / clrmamepro 4.02 released

« on: 23 November 2011, 20:45 »

clrmamepro 4.02

removed: scanner advanced option: check for dupes (it's enabled by default now)
removed: scanner advanced option: use optimized rompath scan (it's enabled by default now)
added: scanner info line besides setinformation button to indicate not enabled sets/systems/chd regions
added: unbind all button for system picker window
misc:  optimized time needed for sysdefpath autodetection (roughly 10x faster)
misc:  changed file attribute routines to win32 api to avoid assertions on illegal dates
fixed: system picker's last entries can't be edited
fixed: deprecated dat loader did not force utf8 encoding


well...nothing really big in there...real life comes first....but I do have things on my list like:
better softwarelist support, chd rebuild, some experimental scanner speedup and there are tons of tiny things collected over the years....such things are not forgotten....but I simply don't have that much time.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: How to NOT scan/remove Mechanical games?

« on: 23 November 2011, 19:59 »

Scanner->Systems->untick mechanical is indeed the way to go.
Keep in mind that there are a lot "mpu4" sets which aren't tagged as mechanical in MAME.

If you want to exclude more you need can either try to do it via systems (if they use a bios), via exclude lists or via regular expressions if they somehow share something in their descriptions or manufacturers. THis is done in setinformation->select sets. For example a %s=mpu4.c plus ticking the logical not will exclude all sets which use the mpu4.c driver file.