I need to make a fixdat, and I'm told that I should use CMP to make one.

I have got the dat from the emulator, mame 0.36

That part is fine. My roms are not organised in the usual way which I think is confusing CMP.

My sets are fully-merged, and each rom is renamed to its CRC. This allows one set to work with many versions of mame, and many emulators.

Example: If I open backfire.zip, I have 2 roms: 27472F60 and 60973046.

The problem is, I don't know how to drive CMP to give me the result I need. How do I ask CMP for the list of missings, and how do I turn that list into a dat file?

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Robert

> My sets are fully-merged, and each rom is renamed to its CRC. This allows one
> set to work with many versions of mame, and many emulators.

This is a weird way and obsolete. Simply get update dats or use a profile for each mame version.



> The problem is, I don't know how to drive CMP to give me the result I need. How
> do I ask CMP for the list of missings, and how do I turn that list into a dat
> file?

Well...you can try to run a full scan (with name check enabled). It will list each and any file as wrong-named since you renamed them.
After the scan toggle the name checkbox and it will hide the wrong named entries, so you end with the ones you really miss. Then use the popup menu option to save a fixdat.


To be honest....you should change the way of storing your files. There are diff-datfiles out there which includes the changes from MAME version to MAME version. In my opinion there is no need to store old MAME versions anyway.


Roman Scherzer

> > The problem is, I don't know how to drive CMP to give me the result I need.
> How
> > do I ask CMP for the list of missings, and how do I turn that list into a dat
> > file?
>
> Well...you can try to run a full scan (with name check enabled). It will list
> each and any file as wrong-named since you renamed them.
> After the scan toggle the name checkbox and it will hide the wrong named
> entries, so you end with the ones you really miss. Then use the popup menu
> option to save a fixdat.
>
> Roman Scherzer
>
Thanks for the advice but I'll stick with how it is for now. I can run any version of mame/kawaks/nebula or whatever, they all use the same roms folder, and they all work without having to change anything.

Back to the problem at hand, I did what you said, and it says I'm missing hundreds of roms when it's really only about 40. Also, where is the popup menu?

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Robert

> Thanks for the advice but I'll stick with how it is for now. I can run any
> version of mame/kawaks/nebula or whatever, they all use the same roms folder,
> and they all work without having to change anything.

Again...that's not needed. Logiqx got so called supplement datfiles for all kind of emulators, so you can stick with MAME and got supplement dats for the other emus.



> Back to the problem at hand, I did what you said, and it says I'm missing
> hundreds of roms when it's really only about 40.

Proof it 8)...You probably miss that much. Be sure you got sets, roms and all check options enabled and got the rompaths correctly setup.

> Also, where is the popup menu?

Right click in the scan results window.


Roman Scherzer

>
> > Also, where is the popup menu?
>
> Right click in the scan results window.
>
>
> Roman Scherzer
>

Popup menu works fine, lots of options, very impressive!

I can do a rebuild no problems at all, but no luck with scanning.

I was in a hurry so I made a little script to turn my output into a fixdat, so problem solved.

Thanks for your help anyway, one day I might work out how to use all the features of CMP. :)

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Robert

> I can do a rebuild no problems at all, but no luck with scanning.

Well...if the scanner says you're missing files, you're missing files 8)


Roman Scherzer