> Hi Roman & gang.
>
> Is there any way CMP can scan a MAME arts directory (like cpanel) without all
> the files having to be zipped together. i.e. so that they are all seperate in
> the cpanel directory
>
> The problem is that when a new arts pack comes out, it takes me well over an
> hour to rezip all the files together.


ClrMamePro generally supports 2 scanning modes:

rompath\setname\file 1... file n for unzipped sets
rompath\setname.zip for zipped sets

A set can be split over several rompaths if you like (but it's not useful).

Artwork packages usually (expections are artwork and samples) one set with all file inside that set.

Usually I update art zipfiles by a complete rebuild (with no recompress enabled). That's fast and after that I can do one zipmax runthrough. Scanning (and fixing) such an art pack isn't the way to go since most operations require lots of zipactivity and that'll take long.....so I prefer a full rebuild.

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro