I use QuickPlay frontend, which supports 7zip sets. That is, i archive all [U], [J], and other releases into one archive to save space, and QuickPlay lets me navigate them.

However, i want to check the roms i have with a .DAT file, and while ClrMAME supports 7zip, i gather, it only sees one rom inside the "set archive", for example [U], and the [J] and [E] become "missing".

Is it possible for me to scan everything, somehow, without unpacking all the roms ?

> Is it possible for me to scan everything, somehow, without unpacking all the
> roms ?

clrmamepro supports the 'official' storing methods:
rompath\setname\file 1... file n for uncompressed sets
rompath\setname.zip (or .7z, .rar) for compressed sets.

The datfile specifies how sets are grouped, so you simply need a datfile which keeps the sets in a way you prefer.

Either all files in one set or really set by set.


Roman Scherzer

> Either all files in one set or really set by set.

How is that different from my situation ?

Okay, look. ClrMAME points out that my sets are named wrongly, but it still goes inside, right ? And it recognizes one file, right ? Why cant it see the others ? Okay, so i named the actual SET wrong (i.e. Romname[JUE].7z for example), but since it is an actual set, and it can see one file from it (mostly [U]), why cant it see the other releases ? I just dont get it...

You have to look at the used datfile and how it specifies the sets.

Then check your rompaths and see how the general loading rule

rompath\setname\file 1.... file n or
rompath\setname.zip/.rar/.7z

is used for that specific datfile.

You said "all [U], [J], and other releases into one archive to save space", so your datfile has to like:

game (
name my_test
description
rom ( name test[u].bin ... size ... crc ... )
rom ( name ..[u]... size ... crc ... )
rom ( name ..[u]... size ... crc ... )
...
)



But then you only got one set 'my_test'. For storing/scanning it means:

rompath\my_test\test[u].bin ....
or
rompath\my_test.7z (or .rar/.zip)

If you want to keep your files archived as well, your datfile has specify more sets

game (
name set_1
description
rom ( name test[u].bin ... size ... crc ... )
)

game (
name set_2
description
rom ( name ...[u] ... size ... crc ... )
)

game (
name set_2
description
rom ( name ...[u] ... size ... crc ... )
)



Roman Scherzer