Hi Roman,

I have noticed something strange since working on collecting the TOSEC sets. I would scan, then save a fixdat. However, I would look at the fixdat, and the results were sometimes totally off.

Check this out as an example. Here's the log file :

Academy (1986)(CRL Group)-3 [folder: Academy (1986)(CRL Group)-3]
missing set: Academy (1986)(CRL Group)-3
missing rom: Academy (1986)(CRL Group).tzx [size: 64944] [CRC32: 0xf9d6eed3] [MD5: e60b26386df9ca17ca9d1f2b6054d405]

Gunship (1987)(Microprose)-2 [folder: Gunship (1987)(Microprose)-2]
missing set: Gunship (1987)(Microprose)-2
missing rom: Gunship (1987)(Microprose).tzx [size: 8616] [CRC32: 0x61fe97fe] [MD5: 0fb6fa8251cc11dbbea789729d384a4c]

Interactive BASIC Programming (1985)(Eigen Software)-4 [folder: Interactive BASIC Programming (1985)(Eigen Software)-4]
missing set: Interactive BASIC Programming (1985)(Eigen Software)-4
missing rom: Interactive BASIC Programming (1985)(Eigen Software).tzx [size: 46684] [CRC32: 0x1877b308] [MD5: 3374ad80bf5be8ddb80065168e3f14b4]

Never Ending Story, The (1985)(Ocean Software)-2 [folder: Never Ending Story, The (1985)(Ocean Software)-3]
missing set: Never Ending Story, The (1985)(Ocean Software)-2
missing rom: Never Ending Story, The (1985)(Ocean Software).tzx [size: 16431] [CRC32: 0x4c4941fa] [MD5: 5d029c49dcf5d6c666262f491f38bfa8]

P15G (19xx)(-)-9 [folder: P15G (19xx)(-)-8]
missing set: P15G (19xx)(-)-9
missing rom: P15G (19xx)(-).tzx [size: 342354] [CRC32: 0x39ebebac] [MD5: ad7828925c5d2e4995b814a7c1d9df47]

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Missing Sets: 5 of 9244
Wrong SetName Case: 0
Wrong Named Sets: 0 [0 fixed]

Missing Roms: 5 of 9244
Wrong Named Roms: 0 [0 fixed]
Wrong RomName Case: 0
Wrong Sized Roms: 0
Wrong CRC32s: 0
Wrong MD5s:
Wrong SHA1s:

Missing Samples:
Wrong SampleName Case:

Missing DiskImages:
Wrong DiskImageName Case:
Wrong Named DiskImages:
Wrong CHD_MD5/SHA1s:

Unneeded Files/Folders: 0 [0 fixed]

Number Of Sets: 9244
Number Of BIOS sets: 0
Number Of Parents: 0
Number Of Clones: 0
Number Of Others: 9244
Number Of Roms: 9244
Number Of Samples: 0
Number Of 'nodump' ROMs: 0
Number Of 'baddump' ROMs: 0

And, now, for the fixdat file :

clrmamepro (
name "fix_Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Games (TZX) (TOSEC-v2004-06-09)"
description "fix_Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Games (TZX) (TOSEC-v2004-06-09)"
category FIXDATFILE
version "12/21/04 22:33:41"
author "created by ClrMamePro"
)

game (
name "Academy (1986)(CRL Group)-2"
description "Academy (1986)(CRL Group)-2"
year ""
manufacturer ""
rom ( name "Academy (1986)(CRL Group).tzx" size 64944 crc 0x39f9d921 md5 5c8e9ca325b0fa08c2594e291da4e2e4 )
)

game (
name "Gunship (1987)(Microprose)-1"
description "Gunship (1987)(Microprose)-1"
year ""
manufacturer ""
rom ( name "Gunship (1987)(Microprose).tzx" size 67915 crc 0x5d2c1116 md5 474cff68594387023c71858e3230a120 )
)

game (
name "Interactive BASIC Programming (1985)(Eigen Software)-3"
description "Interactive BASIC Programming (1985)(Eigen Software)-3"
year ""
manufacturer ""
rom ( name "Interactive BASIC Programming (1985)(Eigen Software).tzx" size 53674 crc 0x3ed04c41 md5 b5edca5d450ef65ed6b10baeadc3aae6 )
)

game (
name "Never Ending Story, The (1985)(Ocean Software)-2"
description "Never Ending Story, The (1985)(Ocean Software)-1"
year ""
manufacturer ""
rom ( name "Never Ending Story, The (1985)(Ocean Software).tzx" size 45331 crc 0x543b41b4 md5 8f46058dcb51107fed1bb377de9c6f05 )
)

game (
name "P15G (19xx)(-)-3"
description "P15G (19xx)(-)-4"
year ""
manufacturer ""
rom ( name "P15G (19xx)(-).tzx" size 317416 crc 0x1c981a08 md5 ef29f11568884ba72b7cd92e626ffca7 )
)


As you can see, what it has saved to the fixdat file is slightly wrong. The log was saved automatically once scanning was completed, then I saved the fixdat straight after that (approx 5 seconds).

There was another case where I had 4 totally missing sets showing in the scanner results, then only 2 of the sets saved to the fixdat.

Any ideas?

SK.