> I've tried many times over the last couple of years to get ClrMamePro to work,
> but never succeeded. Its always the same: I point to the mame.exe file to create
> a datfile, click Load/Update and it says database update is needed. Run mame.exe
> -listxml. I click OK and get another: Found an incomplete datfile or bad exe
> output.
> I know I'm using command-line mame, and during all my current and former
> attempts I have used a dozen or more versions both older and current. Several
> versions of Clrmame, and its always as above. Help would be appreciated! I'm
> trying to make a datfile to run older mame so I can view .inp files from M.A.R.P
> (ROMS rarely match the version)
>


Be sure you're using an official build of MAME which doesn't crash when -listxml (or -listinfo for older MAME versions) is used. Try that from the commandline.

Be sure you got write-rights on cmpro's temp folder, and be sure enough diskspace is available (about 20-30MB) there.

Disable virusscanners which may interfear the process.

I can tell you what cmpro does. It runs the given MAME binary with -listxml option and redirects the output to cmpro's tempfolder. After that, the created file is parsed. If it's incomplete, you have a major problem. Maybe it's your harddisk write cache which doesn't work fine (Maxtor drives used to have faulty writecache options)

So...if you rechecked everything, you can still create a dat on your own...Redirect MAME's -listxml output to a file and use that in the profiler (e.g. mame.exe -listxml >c:\mymamedat.dat).


If you're using an old MAME version, you have to set the EMULATOR field to OLD_MAME of course, since the old MAME versions didn't use -listxml but -listinfo.



Roman Scherzer