Hi all.

I was just wondering about the 'stand-in' file- 'music.wav' for the 'solarq' set...

my understanding is that it's a temporary file until a real sample becomes available. If this is the case, is there not a risk (if & when the real wav becomes available) that clrMAME will not pick up on it as it will think it's already in the samples directory?

Is this correct, and is there a fail-safe mechanism to avoid this potential issue?

Another thing is: even though i keep uptodate with samples as they are dumped, the dats always seem to indicate that I am a couple dozen samples short of a complete set. MAME32's inbuilt auditing states the same.

Yet it seems impossible to find the correct samples anywhere.

There are some sites offering empty dummy files (such as solarq's wav), but what is the point in this? Can't there just be a 'no-good dump known' instruction or some like rather than stating out-right that it's missing. Surely it can only be missing if it's been sampled & dumped?

Thanks for any clarification on this guys.