Ok in the passs I have used them and all worked good. It's been some time I have check my Roms to see if they are the latest.

But now I am having some problems reading the Roms. For example I have all the Atari 7800 Roms. I run ClrMame and load up the Good7800 0.999.3 dat file (Tried Both). I then head to the settings and have it point where the Roms are. From there I then do a scan and it tells me that they are unneeded files, which I don't understand. The files aren't ziped up also, they are in thier normal .a78 state.

Am I doing something wrong that I don't remember from doing them in the pass or is it that the new ClrMame version had something happen where it isn't reading the dat file correct?

Thank You

Ok I see what it wa now. I had to zip up the file for it to see/check the rom file.

Now can you scann a bunch of Roms in a folder that aren't ziped up, such as the Atari 7800 Roms since they are ony single Roms per game?

You have to learn about the basic ways how clrmame scans roms.

[rompath]\[setname]\[rom1 .... rom n] for unzipped files
[rompath]\[setname.zip] for zipped files.

I normally make 2 datfiles per good*set. One where you can keep your roms zipped separately and one where you can keep your roms unzipped in one single folder (or zipped in 1 zipfile e.g. "5200Ren").

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro

> You have to learn about the basic ways how clrmame scans roms.
>
> [rompath]\[setname]\[rom1 .... rom n] for unzipped files
> [rompath]\[setname.zip] for zipped files.
>
> I normally make 2 datfiles per good*set. One where you can keep your roms zipped
> separately and one where you can keep your roms unzipped in one single folder
> (or zipped in 1 zipfile e.g. "5200Ren").
>
> Roman Scherzer
> ClrMamePro
>


Thanks!

I didn't think that all the roms, if unzip, had to be in thier own folder. I had all the roms in a single folder but nothing ziped up. I just wanted to do a fast scan on them to make sure they were ok before I added them to thier own zip files or 1 big one. Any reason why it's like this, just out of curiosity? Would be cool if ClrMame saw this and then if wanted too have an option to zip them during the scan. Unless there is an option like that and havn't notice it yet. :). Well I could always use the rebuilder for that if needed and then scann them.

I have user your progy since it pretty much came out but only for MAME. Now I am starting to get into other stuff I never had the need to use a dat file since with MAME I could always create one through the .exe file. Plus also all the MAME files have been ziped up since I been into it.

Now I am geting the hang of it using it for other stuff. Plus I love using your Zip-Max to keep them more compress. To bad you didn't have an option in ClrMame if you wanted them normal compress or more with 7-Zip the way Zip-Max uses.

Well...a better one-rom-per-set-unzipped-scan is planned....but not in the near future.

There are no plans to implement zipmax features in cmpro....I usually zipmax the changed sets after a new mame release...

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro

> Well...a better one-rom-per-set-unzipped-scan is planned....but not in the near
> future.
>
> There are no plans to implement zipmax features in cmpro....I usually zipmax the
> changed sets after a new mame release...
>
> Roman Scherzer
> ClrMamePro
>


Ahhh ok. No biggy on my end. I don't mind doing it this way. Makes me feel I am doing something =P.

As for Mame, I do the same thing also per new sets. I just figure it be a little easier for some if they had that option in ClrMame in a scann or a rebuild.

Let me ask you this. What is the easiest way to have new sets checked in a seperate folder? Let me try to explain what I used to do.

When a new set comes out I put all those Roms in a seperate folder, lets call it New Roms. I would get the new sets and add them to this folder. I keep all my roms merge also. I would then use Romcenter (wich is to buggy now) to see both paths of my main Roms and the New Roms. I would then scann the New Roms folder and it would add the require files that are needed from the Roms folder to make a complete merge set.

When all done I then take the New Roms and Zip-Max them and then move them to the Roms folder replacing any old ones that may be the same name.

Now I can somewhat do this with Clr but they all go into the main Roms folder. Then I have to dif through 3,000 files trying to find what ones they were to Zip-Max them.

Any easy Tip to get by this? Romcenter was nice cause you see the directory and can see that is was complete. But I don;t use it now cause I find it corupts files, error, and other BS.

Well...if you want to keep your new files separately, simply add a rompath and store your new roms there.

If you want to know which sets have been changed or are newly added, you can go various ways.

I personally do it this way:
- set all current sets to file attribut -a (and/or time/date something like 01/01/2003 00:00)
- disable Settings->preserve archive date/time
- scan and update your collection to the new mame
- the sets with +a (and/or changed date/time) are the new and changed ones.

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro