> anyone building these detectors, heed the advice in the spec about ignoring size
> when creating the DATs, the rebuilder will not work if a size field is present

Hmm...the size in the dat should represent the size without the header and the rebuilder should be aware of that. I will recheck that, too.




> This sounds very interesting. Does this mean that if there is a 'game' entry
> with the same name the Dir2DAT will grab the description, etc... from the
> loaded profile and populate that in the new DAT, allowing all of the manual work
> of DAT creation to be reused as much as possible? If so, can you tell me the
> matching criteria?

Well..the matching criteria is the chosen setname. If dir2dat created a set called pacman for example and a current MAME profile is loaded, it'll try to match 'pacman' with the sets in MAME and (in case of a match) it takes manufacturer, year, description etc. from that. Guess how I create the sample dat ;)



Roman Scherzer