> Based on the advice of someone in the MAME forums, I ran the CRCheck32 program
> on my MAME roms.
>
> The program claims that over 70% of my roms fail the crc check using this
> program. However, The random sampling of "failed" files that I tried all work
> fine in MAME.
>
> I tried scanning with CLRMamePro with the decompress and check CRC32 option
> turned on and it doesn't turn up any problems at all.
>
> Any clue what is happening here?
>
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> if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like
> prunes than rhubarb does
>



Random crc32 errors are a sign for a hardware issue. Usually caused by bad RAM, bad RAM timing (overclocked systems), bad IDE cables, buggy VIA chipsets, corrupt harddisk.

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro