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clrmame Discussion / small request

« on: 20 March 2012, 21:03 »

Hi Roman,
yesterday I was checking my "rollback chd" collection with latest clrmame 4.04
The result is that all chd are marked as old version (v3 and v4) and need to be updated to v5.
This is very right from clrmame point of view, but not very much useful for rollback CHDs: if I would like to use an old mame version it will need to utilize an old CHD version as well to work correctly.

Would it be possible to add in some datfile a "forceoldchdversion" command like we have the "forcezip" or "forcemerge"? It function should be to NOT complain if a CHD is old version, and make rom collectors happy again with their green light!

Thanks in advance.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: clrmamepro 4.00b released

« on: 19 September 2011, 08:35 »

What do you mean with not correct?

Never mind, I was making a mistake. The datfile is correct.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: clrmamepro 4.00b released

« on: 18 September 2011, 13:54 »

clrmamepro 4.0b

misc:  don't write utf8 BOM for old-style dats

Hi Roman,
could you please also check the dir2dat routine? If I'm using old datfile format, it looks like the header is not correct.
TIA

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clrmame Discussion / Re: clrmamepro 4.00b released

« on: 08 September 2011, 17:29 »

misc:  don't write utf8 BOM for old-style dats

Thank you very much!
The old datfile format is now working again!

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clrmame Discussion / Re: clrmamepro 4.00a released

« on: 06 September 2011, 21:24 »

Hi Roman, looks like I stumbled upon a small glitch.
As usual, after compiling a fresh MAME built I load it up in clrmame and scanner->setinformation->export a datfile for it in the OLD FORMAT.
Then I load the resulting datfile in "listtools.exe" (an old datfile manager) and do all of my datfile updates.

Now with MAME 0.143u5 and clrmame v4.0a the exported datfile in old format has something wrong in it, and it is no more accepted by listtools.

I know that I should discard the old datfile completely and move on to xml, but I still edit all my datfiles with notepad, and the xml format is a pain in the derier to read; the old format in this case is much more easy and straightforward.

Would it be possible for you to have a look at it?
Thanks in advance for your effort.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: New Feature Request

« on: 27 August 2011, 20:31 »

from what I know, it should not be possible as things are today.
What you require will need those infos (videogame, pinball, fruitmachine, consolle) to be included into MAME, ecause clrmame gets it's data from MAME itself. So you should send your request to mamdevs, not to Roman.

An alternative would be to have someone sort all the games manually, and release a datfile for each separate cathegory.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Work In Progress

« on: 27 July 2011, 11:40 »

I am too!

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clrmame Discussion / Re: clrmamepro 3.138a

« on: 26 May 2011, 09:46 »

Thank you very much, you are very fast.
I tested the new binary (32bit) and it works perfectly now.

I would love to use XML, but to manage my DATfiles I'm using an old tool which only supports old style DATs.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: clrmamepro 3.138a

« on: 25 May 2011, 06:57 »

Hi Roman.
MAME 0.142u4 (32bit) freshly compiled.
Using clrmamepro 3.138 - scanner - set information - export (*) -> resulting file is 16.506KB
Doing the same thing, same settings with clrmamepro 3.138a -> resulting file is 398.872KB !!!!!!!

What am I doing wrong?

(*) in cmpro.ini I have "Adv_DatFormatXML = off"

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clrmame Discussion / Re: The Basics...

« on: 21 November 2010, 16:08 »

well, do the following:
1) get a correct datfile for 0.37b5 (or create one yourself using the mame 0.37b5 exe)
2) point clrmame to said datfile, go to rebuilder, use your actual rom folder as a source and a new folder as destination.
3) make it run (remeber to un-check "remove files" if you want to keep your actual collection of roms unaffected by the process)

At the of the rebuilt process you will have in the new folder the best possible collection of roms for 0.37b5 that you can possibly get from your actual roms.

In case repeat the process using the roll-back collection as a source.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: MESS and software lists

« on: 10 May 2010, 20:08 »

Sorry to jump in the middle of your discussion.
Let me see if I understand all of this correctly:
1) next version of MESS will have a list of games/software supported by each of the various systems that MESS emulates
2) So basically MESS will include a 2 layers list: a "top" one which is the current list of system supported by MESS, and a "lower" one which is a ramification of the top one, where under every system there is the list of supported software for that system
3) CLRMAME will natively support such a 2 layers structure, automatically checking firstly for the systems, and secondly for the software in each and every system.

If it's the case, you guys ARE AWESOME!
I'll finally get rid of all those good, non-good, tosec, no-intro, etc.etc. lists; and only keep what is really and officially "approved" by the MESS team.
Thank you!

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Undumped Wiki / Re: Win Win Bingo

« on: 01 December 2009, 17:37 »

Amending a comment is game, creating a new cathegory for "partially dumped games" is a different league.

I don't dare it.

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Undumped Wiki / Win Win Bingo

« on: 01 December 2009, 08:36 »

It's only PARTIALLY dumped, not fully dumped.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Small issue: dir2dat

« on: 15 September 2009, 20:07 »

if they're not empty (I guess I changed that lately)

OK. I was asking because in the past Year & Manufacturer were not strictly linked to a match in the tagdata, and were added as an empty field in any case.

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clrmame Discussion / Small issue: dir2dat

« on: 14 September 2009, 21:09 »

dir2dat
Add Manufacturer & Add Year are NOT adding manufacturer & year fields to the datfile.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: clrmamepro 3.131 released

« on: 01 September 2009, 07:51 »

Maybe later....

Appartment move....Fatherhood...September is a busy month...

OH YES!
I was not meaning "do it now!", it was only a way to have my idea written down somewhwere for future reference.

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clrmame Discussion / Re: clrmamepro 3.131 released

« on: 31 August 2009, 22:22 »

Very beautifull indeed!

I see that both "old" and "new" datfile has to be in .dat or .xml format.
Any chance you will directly support mame-exe as "new" or "old" datfile?

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Rename Wizard wip

« on: 20 August 2009, 13:09 »

AFAIK DatWorkshop is already doing this....

http://www.emulab.it/simone/?page_id=7

OH, yes! I'm using it, and it's good. But everything in one single tool would be marvelous!

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clrmame Discussion / Re: Rename Wizard wip

« on: 19 August 2009, 13:57 »

I'm extremely happy about this new development of clrmame.
Now crlmame is no more "only" a rommanager, but it's also a "datmanager"; something I was asking more then 3 years ago.
In addition to this "compare" function, it would be great to have also an "addition" function and a "subtraction" function.
Where addition is: take datfile A and datfile B -> generate datfile C which include all roms from both datfile, whit only one instance for duplicate roms.
Subtraction is: take datfile A and datfile B -> generate datfile C which only includes roms from A not duplicated in B

Am I dreaming?

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Undumped Wiki / Re: Cubo CD32 games

« on: 30 July 2009, 19:16 »

non ho idea di quando sia stato dumpato, ma e' disponibile sui NG di emulazione da ieri.