> Ok, to make this simpler I created a new profile, put only the two roms in
> question into a folder, and unchecked the scan for missing files (so I wouldn't
> get all the messages about missing roms).
>
> I set up the profile using the EXE from MAME .104u8, and the problem also
> happened when I used .104u7. I am using clrmame 2.85c and my options are set up
> as follows:
>
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v21/dcm386/scan_set.gif
>
> All settings besides ROM path were not touched.
>
> running the scan gives these results:
> Cannon Dancer (Japan) [folder: candance - parent: osman - size: 13mb]
> wrong merged ROM set: C:\test\candance (merge to: osman)
> wrong placed file: C:\test\candance\mcf-00.9a (move to parent: osman)
> wrong placed file: C:\test\candance\mcf-01.13a (move to parent: osman)
> wrong placed file: C:\test\candance\mcf-02.14a (move to parent: osman)
> wrong placed file: C:\test\candance\mcf-03.14d (move to parent: osman)
> wrong placed file: C:\test\candance\mcf-04.14h (move to parent: osman)
> wrong placed file: C:\test\candance\mcf-05.12f (move to parent: osman)
> wrong placed file: C:\test\candance\sa00-0.1e (move to parent: osman)
> wrong placed file: C:\test\candance\sa01-0.13h (move to parent: osman)
>
> HTH
>



well...these 'wrong placed' messages are normal and are correct. "candance" is a 'fake clone' i.e. it's a 100% identical set to its parent. So in this case it doesn't play a role if you use full or splitmerged sets. In this case it
's because of the chosen 'fake-clone' behaviour.

There is a setting in the profiler options window how they should be handled ("don't create dummy clones"). The default behaviour is that you don't need them (so you only got the parent set, in this case "osman". The other behaviour is that you need them.

So I assume all your messages belong to such fake clones. There are a handful fake clonesets (natodef/natodefa, osman/candance, jdredd/jdreddb and some others).

Turning on fix-unneeded should remove them for you automatically.

Maybe I should replace "wrong merged set" to "unneeded fake clone" or something. Although it IS a wrong merged event....well..time will tell how I name it 8)


Roman Scherzer