> I'm not sure I've made myself entirely clear: The display MAME32 has for ROM
> numbers is actually bottom right of the emulator when looking at Available, not
> the internal audit display. Or in other words, there were 796 ROMS Available to
> be played under MAME32, and after a scan and fix there were only 754. 42 Roms
> have thus been merged or broken in some way, and MAME no longer sees them.

This is the ultimate demonstration that MAME32 game count is seriously broken!!!!

really, the original claim of mame32 that you had 796 roms was a total FAKE!
the only count you can trust is clrmame one.

So, at the end of the story, you have NOT lost any rom, you have simply forced mame32 to make the right counting.


PS (anyway, just look into the backup folder of your clrmame folder, you will probably find there something that mame32 thought was a right rom game, but in reality was discovered by clrmame as bogus.)


ciao
f205v