Hi guys. I'm new to Clrmame and have everything installed, setup, roms paths detected by clrmame,
and dat file in place....

I guess what I'm trying to do (and I wonder if it is even possible) is to figure out

Out of the roms that I do have, which ones are unusable/broken/old in the current version of mame and I would like them just deleted if possible.. I dont care about fixing or anything else, I just want to avoid going through the list of games
Game By Game to see which one works.

Is this something that clrmame can do? I dont care about getting results of the thousands of games that I dont have, I just want to deal with the files I do have.

I've went through a tutorial page or two and it seems to be 'information overkill' for what I want to do...

Is there a 'for dummies' version of the tutorial? ;)

Is what I want to do even possible?

1) load the correct datfile in the profiler (e.g. use current MAME 95 in profiler->create to create a profile for MAME
2) go to settings and setup rompaths
3) go to the scanner and scan


easy, ain't it ;)


Well....if you don't have all sets you may get a huge list of missing sets. Either you ignore them or you hide them (disable scanner popupmenu->view->show all missing sets).

If you want to get rid of incomplete sets or sets with issues (why that anyway? Isn't it prefered to fix them ;O)), you can use the popupmenu delete option to remove the listed sets (one by one or all on the fly).

The Scanner only lists sets which have problems. The tree output shows detailed information about what's wrong with.


Another method to get the best out of your current collection is to rebuild them to a new place using the rebuilder. The rebuilder takes anything valid from a sourcefolder and puts it correctly named in the destinationfolder. Valid means size and crc32 matches a file in the database. The rebuilder is filebased, not setbased. This means it doesn't necessarily have to produce complete sets. For example if one rom is used by 13 different sets, all sets are created with at least that one rom.


I still advice you to read the included documentation and read parts of the tutorials.

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro

> Another method to get the best out of your current collection is to rebuild them
> to a new place using the rebuilder. The rebuilder takes anything valid from a
> sourcefolder and puts it correctly named in the destinationfolder. Valid means
> size and crc32 matches a file in the database. The rebuilder is filebased, not
> setbased. This means it doesn't necessarily have to produce complete sets. For
> example if one rom is used by 13 different sets, all sets are created with at
> least that one rom.
>
>
> I still advice you to read the included documentation and read parts of the
> tutorials.


This sounds like the way to go for me.
Maybe I'll try repairing them, but the ones I use
the most - I already have retrieved the 'working' versions
of them.
Its mostly alot of the misc games that I'll never play
that I want to get off the system.

I think I'll try working with the above suggestion first.
And if I get stuck, I'll read more of the documentation as
you suggested. Like I said earlier, sometimes too much
info turns into overkill for someone trying to accomplish one thing.

I really appreciate the advice on this.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!