Thanks. I got it to work.

I guess my problem was "symantics" -- that is calling PNG flyer image files "ROMS" and specify them with a "ROM-Path".

That didnt seem "correct".

Thanks again for your great program!



> well...it's always the same procedure:
>
> - load a datfile (no matter if taken from your disk or the www profiler)
> - if it's a new datfile, chose 'default'
> - go to settings and setup a rompath
> - go to the scanner and scan
>
> So for artwork dats like flyers you do exactly this.
> Now the general two scanning rules:
> rompath\setname\file 1 ... file n for unzipped sets
> rompath\setname.zip for zipped sets
>
> That should help to setup rompaths correctly. An example is the flyers datfile.
> If we look at it (e.g. in a texteditor), we see that it only got one set named
> "flyers"
>
> game (
> name flyers
> ...
> )
>
> So if we keep the flyers zipped, we use something like rompath\flyers.zip,
> otherwise rompath\flyers\png 1 ... png n
>
> And if you look closer at the datfile you see that the png files are listed as
> roms, so you scan them exactly as roms in your mame profile.
>
> So the main thing you have to care about is to setup the rompath correctly.
>
>
>
> Roman Scherzer
>