> I did a scan of my snes set with both goodsnes and clrmame (the latest datfile
> and goodtool were used) and under clrmame i get
> missing roms 1694
> wrong crc32's 2916
> in goodsnes i am missing only 117
> Which one of these do i trust? I'm basically going to have to get my entire set
> again according to the clrmame stats. Clrmame also says i have a bunch of
> uneeded files, and if i delete these my missing roms count under goodsnes
> increases.
> I've heard stuff about headers but i don't really understand all that, so i was
> also wondering if there was a good place to read up on that stuff as well.
> Thanks
>
snes roms come in various formats, because of all the different copiers there were

goodsnes recognises and scans roms in all those formats and you can trust it

the clrmame dat expects all roms to be in the same bin/raw format wich is a plain rom image of the games and it's the format to go with if you wanna clean your snes roms

for info on the different snes roms formats refer to ucon64 docs
you can also clean your roms with it
ucon64.sf.net