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[DjDiabolik2.0]

Therefore.
I see a new mame 0.272 it's released. And i go to update my personal collection of mame titles and i ever used (i thinks in correct ways) clrmamepro.

Today i have try to use the newest Scanner and Rebuilder.

First of all i have used the scanner whit my collection:
- add folder "D:\Emulatori\MAME\Roms"
- set a Backup Folder
- Add mame.exe path
- Click on "New Scan"

After about 30 seconds (it's very much speed respect the clrmamepro scanner.... omg it's obtain a very large xml files whit entire result.
It's be saved on "D:\Emulatori\MAME\Tools\clrmame_007_014\scans\27a5041a-listxml.xml"

For the UI i see i can filter the view.... i have selected only "Partly Wrong" and i have exported the list on clipboard to obtain a txt whit detail and my missing file and obtain somethings like this:

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0.272 (mame0272)

bumba [Bumba (bootleg of Head On)] [cloneof: headon]
fixable missing rom: 3.a6 [crc: 461c2658] [fixable via: D:\Emulatori\MAME\Roms\headons.zip\3.6a]
missing rom: 4.a8 [crc: c7c13dd1]
missing rom: 6.a11 [crc: 95fb39df]

carnivalmm [Carnival (ManilaMatic bootleg)] [cloneof: carnival]
fixable missing rom: 10mm.u27 [crc: a3b9c2db] [fixable via: D:\Emulatori\MAME\Roms\verbena.zip\10mm.u27]
fixable missing rom: 12mm.u29 [crc: b5230913] [fixable via: D:\Emulatori\MAME\Roms\verbena.zip\12mm.u29]
missing rom: 16mm.u33 [crc: 0230bd0a]
fixable missing rom: 1mm.u1 [crc: 6e10c057] [fixable via: D:\Emulatori\MAME\Roms\verbena.zip\1v.u1]
fixable missing rom: 2mm.u2 [crc: b94ef7ab] [fixable via: D:\Emulatori\MAME\Roms\verbena.zip\2mm.u2]

etc etc

After this i have downloaded all missing files....... and i will try pass to use rebuilder.
- Copied all downloaded files in a folder:
D:\Emulatori\MAME\Tools\clrmame_007_014\Rebuilt. Add this path on "Input path"

- Set the output path on "D:\Emulatori\MAME\RomsTest"

And click on Start. But it's nothings append. On log it's appear an error.. it's say somethings similar:

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2024-11-30 12:51:50 error I/O backup path is required
2024-11-30 12:51:50 info Done, overall time: 0 seconds
2024-11-30 12:51:50 error errors occurred, please check log

But i have set the backup path.... what am I doing wrong?
Why are no files being recreated?

[Roman]

The rebuilder got a backup path on its own which needs to be specified.

by the way, there is not really a need to use the rebuilder. If a missing file is listed as fixable, scanner's fix option will automatically pick the file it found somewhere and adds it to your rompath. If you really have missing files and already have a folder somewhere which holds newly colltected update files, you can specify an add path.

[DjDiabolik2.0]

The rebuilder got a backup path on its own which needs to be specified.

by the way, there is not really a need to use the rebuilder. If a missing file is listed as fixable, scanner's fix option will automatically pick the file it found somewhere and adds it to your rompath. If you really have missing files and already have a folder somewhere which holds newly colltected update files, you can specify an add path.

mmmm.. strange and very interesting.  it's strange because previously i had set the backup path there. lol Strange now it's works

Anyway, I've been working on it a bit in these hours and I seem to have come to understand how it works correctly.

Apparently after some test i have double check my personal collection with this scanner and the scanner on Clrmamepro and everything seems ok.

What is still perhaps useful is the scanning of the "Avail. Sets" (from "Set Information" tab" this -> https://ibb.co/2gvH9yC ) in clrmamepro. Because with this scanner you can found if in your collection you missing some clone or some parent or if you need to update some bios.
I still find this feature and this specific type of scanning convenient.... whit the new clrmameui can be replicated in some ways ?

[Roman]

you could use a "file:" filter which points to a textfile holding your current machine names (1 machine name per row), like

pacman
outrun
194x

and so on....but you'd need to create that list on your own...e.g by redirecting a dir command with a little bit of textediting....
For the future I will think about adding a filter feature for that....(currently it supports regular expressions, xpaths and files)