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[jclampy]

Hi,

I am trying to create/load new profile with DOS Mame034 .exe and Clrmamepro v4.09a but a error message pops up when it is going to start creating a database;

I select mame.exe and make a description
I select OLD_MAME emulator setting and create profile
click [ok]

Under 'options' box I tick "Support Inverted CRC" and "Hide Common DatFile Errors"

I select the profile in the profiles window and click 'load/update' button
Message box appears saying to create database which I click [ok]

running: c:\mame034\mame.exe -listinfo

Then straight away error box appears:
Warning: Found an incomplete datfile or a bad exe-output!
Last correctly imported set:
name: none
description: none

Any ideas how to get it to work?

Could it be some old entries in the registry from previous clrmamepro usage?

Additional Info:
I downloaded mame034 binary from mamedev website.
Also tried old clrmamepro all the way back to 3108 and still same result.

Thanks.

[Roman]

well...your MAME exe created no or an incomplete output...blame MAME...or your OS which might not be able to run DOS programs anymore....
you could run a mame -listinfo manually and redirect the output in a file and load that (most likely it's incomplete)....

again...there is no reason to use 15 year old MAME versions....
anyway...there were old versions of MAME which simply fail to create a -listinfo output....live with it...

[jclampy]

mame034.exe -listinfo using WindowsXP cmd appears to work fine here.
Shame won't work inside Clrmamepro, but no worry.

Also, I think you are right about "you could run a mame -listinfo manually and redirect the output in a file and load that (most likely it's incomplete)...." as that looked the case.

As you say; I'll have to live with it.

The precompiled .dats from progettasnaps seem to work great anyway, so no problem.
Thanks.

[Roman]

If you're able to run it manually, cmpro should also be able to import it directly...(cmpro does nothing else but calling the exe with the correct parameter (-listxml for MAME and -listinfo for old MAME)....it exports it to its temp folder...so maybe clean it up and retry....

but yes, you can still use the manually redirected one....or a 3rd party one