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[MorbidChaks]

I've watched some tutorials on checking ROM sets with clrmamepro and I'm just not getting it, or doing something wrong. I have a merged set of the .224 ROMs. Going to use 10 Yard Fight as an example.
- First issue is that clrmamepro keeps saying it can't open WinRAR or 7-zip executables even though I have both installed and when I check compressor settings, I'm not seeing a path file to point to the executables?
- Second issue is that it doesn't seem to be fixing the ROMs or it's falsely reporting. I run a scan and it tells me 10 Yard Fight is missing ROMs, but when the scan is complete and I look at the compressed file, the ROMs are right there that it says are missing. Thinking that the first scan must have corrected the issue, I run the scan and get the same errors.

[Roman]

Regarding rar/7z support:
You need to have rar / 7z installed and either you put the paths to their executables in your Windows environment %PATH% variable or you have to specify the full path to their exe files in cmpro's settings->compressor settings.

Regarding fixing: 10 yard...well..there are a couple of sets holding that name. A parent and several clones, plus it uses device roms. So question is what cmpro complains about in detail and I'm pretty sure cmpro is correctly reporting the problems. ;-)

Generally working with cmpro:

- first of all, you should know your collection. Is it fully or split merged, is it more or less up2date to the datfile/mame exe you're using to scan with (e.g. don't wonder if you get lots of issues reported if you scan a .150 MAME collection with a .223 executable).

The steps are pretty easy:
Profiler -  setup a profile based on the official latest MAME binary
Settings - setup rom and sample paths
Scanner - set your prefered merge mode and do a new scan
The scan results tree window gives you an overview about what is wrong. Turning on all fix options fixes nearly all problems (of course it can't magically generate missing files out of nothing).

To add missing stuff you can also use the rebuilder (rebuilder destination needs to point to your rompath). Then you can simply drag'n drop new files into the scanner window and they get added if they are valid. An automatic scan can be enabled via the options, so your issues tree gets automatically updated.

[JarvisDashiell]

rar / 7z can be used in any version, right or not.

[Roman]

Not right. As far as I know MAME doesn't support rar compressed sets at all but 7z is supported since erm...a decade or 8 years or something....