> Selecting the sets by the "available sets" button will scan the rompaths and
> enables all sets which were found. Found in the meaning of a simple set name -
> file name compare. If MAME changed a parent/clone relationship, you will enable
> clones. The checkbox parent/clones will enable the parent and all other clones
> if a match was found.
> To sum it up: if you got a clone set on your disk, it gets enabled this way.
> It's not a MAME or clrmamepro issue.
>
> Enabling 'parents only' (btw...keeping only parentsets is not a wise decision
> because there are sets were only the clones do work), can be done by using the
> 'select sets' edit box in the set information window.
>
> - Disable parent/clones checkbox
> - enter "%c=?*" (without the quotes) this enables all clones (%c =
> parentsetname, ? means at least one character, * is a wildcard for no char or
> any char sequence).
> - Press invert and this will enable all parents only ;)
>
> (although the 'invert button' won't be reapplied if the database changed, while
> the select-sets edit box will....so you have to repress invert....guess I will
> change that in the future somehow)
>
>
> Roman Scherzer
>
Thanks for the explanation. this way i indeed see all the parent sets.

As for the clones: i have several clone sets were the parent is not working. I ued to validate all my sets (parents and some clones) the way i described in my first post, but somehow with the latest version of Mame / CMPro it does not work anymore... Any idea why the behaviour changed?