Hi Roman.

I got a load of miscellaneous GBA roms lately and I'm trying to organise them with the following filters:
*[[]b?[]]*; *[[]o?[]]*; *[[]h?[]]*

I have two problems, however:
1. Even though I specify that I don't want hacks, overdumps, etc., Clr Mame does not remove them (and the roms remain in the folder). But- when I subsequently create a have.lst i find that the hacks etc. have not been included.

Doesn't that suggest they should have been deleted from my GBA roms directory?


2. When ClrMame scans and finds incorrectly named roms, it will not rename/remove those mis-named roms from the directory if there is already a correct version of the rom there. It just leaves those roms with the wrong names. The only way I can get rid of those mis-named dupes is to manually delete them from the archive. Surely CMP can do this?

I have a horrible feling I'm making some very elementary mistakes, but any help is appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

> Hi Roman.
>
> I got a load of miscellaneous GBA roms lately and I'm trying to organise them
> with the following filters:
> *[[]b?[]]*; *[[]o?[]]*; *[[]h?[]]*
>
> I have two problems, however:
> 1. Even though I specify that I don't want hacks, overdumps, etc., Clr Mame does
> not remove them (and the roms remain in the folder).

Of course, since with the masks you only disable them from scanning.


> 2. When ClrMame scans and finds incorrectly named roms, it will not
> rename/remove those mis-named roms from the directory if there is already a
> correct version of the rom there.

That's intentionell to prevent overwriting. Use Scanner->Advanced->move not renamed sets to backup instead.



Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro

Thanks for your help Roman!

Is there a way I can tell CMP to delte hacks, overdumps and bad-dumps?

> Thanks for your help Roman!
>
> Is there a way I can tell CMP to delte hacks, overdumps and bad-dumps?
>

well....use a datfile which doesn't include the mentioned sets ;) Or simply use the commandline delete command. del *[b?]* or something.

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro

Thanks for the reply mate, I think I must be getting really lazy these days expecting cmp to do everything for me.

My next feature request will probably be for cmp to fetch the paper, or read me a bedtime story or something :)