> 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.