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[geekbrain]

Can ClrMAME be set up to use resources that are NOT compressed (i.e. zip, rar, 7z)?  The large size of the titles.zip file took a LONG to scan and I wanted to switch to individual (*.png) files in the titles directory.  What do I change to do that?

[Roman]

clrmamepro supports not compressed sets since 1997 ;-)

In general it follows the storing methods:

rompath/setname/file 1 ... file n for decompressed sets
rompath/setname.zip (.rar/.7z) ... where file 1 .. n is in the archive

So you only need to be aware of the fact that you a) have a rompath and b) in the rompath there is/are folder(s) which correspond to the set name(s) and then finally in such rompath subfolders there are the singe files belonging to the set.


By the way: Since progetto datfiles usually are 1-set-billion-of-png files datfiles and use lots of placeholder pngs, you can reduce scan time by turning of fix-missing (and the scanner advanced options belonging to fix-missing). And solid 7z archives would be a pain to fix, so generally rebuilding would be a better option to add files.

[geekbrain]

Awesome - thanks!

[geekbrain]

What other settings should I set (or uncheck) if zip files are not needed?  When I had raw files in instead of titles.zip it deleted all the *.png files. After messing with other settings, it was screaming 'No ROM-Paths specified'.


Should 'You want to scan' be checked for 'Sets' and/or 'ROMs'?

Under 'Settings' should it be 'ROM-Paths along with the 'C:\MAME\titles' sub-directory?

[Roman]

No setting needed. You only have to care about the storing method which I described in the other post. Look at the datfile and which setnames it uses and think again how you store them on your disk and how your rom path needs to be selected...

So for example for the titles datfile which includes also software list titles, you will see setnames like 3do_m2, 32x, a800 .....titles .....xegs.
Your rompath needs to be setup as a folder which contains the mentioned ones...for example:
"F:\MAME\Progetto\progetto-SNAPS - Titles" and then you e.g. have "F:\MAME\Progetto\progetto-SNAPS - Titles\titles" with F:\MAME\Progetto\progetto-SNAPS - Titles\titles\1on1gov.png .... F:\MAME\Progetto\progetto-SNAPS - Titles\titles\zzzap_audio.png in it...

So, "titles" is a setname, "F:\MAME\Progetto\progetto-SNAPS - Titles" is a rompath.

The non software list progetto dat (progetto-SNAPS - Titles NS) only has 1 set: "titles". So your setup rompath needs to be a folder which contains that setfolder and it should not be that folder.

again:

rompath\setname\file 1... file n
rompath\setname.zip (.rar/.7z)

the set, no matter if archive or folder is just a container holding single files for the specific set.....in the progetto snaps world you often only have 1 set containing thousands of files (the pngs)


Also keep in mind that anything which is in a rompath and doesn't belong to the loaded dat becomes unneeded.

So don't think about storing all progetto snaps collections in one rompath....you will need some kind of double folder structure:

F:\MAME\Progetto\progetto-SNAPS - Artwork Preview
F:\MAME\Progetto\progetto-SNAPS - Cabinets
F:\MAME\Progetto\progetto-SNAPS - Control Panels

and so on where the upper ones hold the setfolders...

F:\MAME\Progetto\progetto-SNAPS - Artwork Preview\artpreview
F:\MAME\Progetto\progetto-SNAPS - Cabinets\cabinets
F:\MAME\Progetto\progetto-SNAPS - Control Panels\cpanel

and so on...

[geekbrain]

Now I got it - thanks!