I am having a rough go recently with clrmamepro. Some .dat files rebuild, but then an immediate scan kicks up unneeded files.

They tend to be bigger .dat files with nested subdirectories. I have done a search and replace on the dat so that the new filenames have "_" where the directories were.

GAME\BANGELO.FXE becomes
GAME_BANGELO.FXE

but that doesn't seem to help

if I uncheck "unneeded" when I scan, then all is well???

what information can I provide and how?

"/" and "\" in datfile rom/disk/sample tags should be handled correctly since clrmamepro supports set-subfolders.
You can't have "/" and "\" in setname though.

They will be replaced with "_".

Can you give me the dat in question and I will do some tests.

And also please tell me what you've used for rebuilding: 7z/rar or zip.


Roman Scherzer

> "/" and "\" in datfile rom/disk/sample tags should be handled correctly since
> clrmamepro supports set-subfolders.
> You can't have "/" and "\" in setname though.
>
> They will be replaced with "_".
>
> Can you give me the dat in question and I will do some tests.
>
> And also please tell me what you've used for rebuilding: 7z/rar or zip.
>
>
> Roman Scherzer
>

I get the same results whether unzipped or 7z (haven't tried rar)

I have looked into one of the .dat files and the fault is "invalid" characters in the filenames: GAME_ÇI'I_ÇI'I.GXC, GAME_STAR_ŸÀÌƲ_TSTARTF.GPG, GAME_STAR_¿É¼Ç_OABBUTT.GPG, and with 0 byte files


here is an odd duck:

rom ( name GAME_LW_G_EFFECT_WAV_YOUWIN.SEF size 8868 crc 0xed4ae526 md5 0xd078ea5b2979fd61ac1729134c34f3ef sha1 0xf04bf937515b7f29b85941f5c36f1cd4b9c166ca )
rom ( name GAME_LW_GPUSER_DUMMY.DAT size 0 flags nodump )

wrong name: E:\Data\Emulation\Roms\No-Intro\GamePark - GP32\Little Wizard (K) (Cracked RAW by WRG)\GAME_LW_GPUSER_DUMMY.DAT [wrong: GAME_LW_GPUSER_DUMMY.DAT] [right: GAME_LW_G_EFFECT_WAV_YOUWIN.SEF] [not fixed]


something is getting mixed up!

looks like I broke the setsubfolder support with the latest "'" stuff 8) Guess I can fix it rather quickly later today....


Roman Scherzer

> "/" and "\" in datfile rom/disk/sample tags should be handled correctly since
> clrmamepro supports set-subfolders.
> You can't have "/" and "\" in setname though.
>
> They will be replaced with "_".
>
> Can you give me the dat in question and I will do some tests.
>
> And also please tell me what you've used for rebuilding: 7z/rar or zip.
>
>
> Roman Scherzer
>
any idea how I can "clean" invalid characters out of a dat file