Okay, I'm new here and was hoping someone out there can help! I was referred to this site by a friend and am having some problems with MAME. And I heard you guys can help!! According to the list I have over 4000+ games but only about 1000 or so is installed... WTF! How do I install the other games? THANKS GUYS!

http://www.clrmame.com/

Have that bad boy look over your sets for you. It'll tell you what's fucked up and such. For some games, it'll even be able to fix 'em.

Most of the time, you're just shit out of luck and you're going to need to grab more correct sets.

Thanks :)

But honestly, I'm completely dense about using these programs. Think you can help me out (walk me through it)? Sorry for the inconvenience! :(

> http://www.clrmame.com/
>
> Have that bad boy look over your sets for you. It'll tell you what's fucked up
> and such. For some games, it'll even be able to fix 'em.
>
> Most of the time, you're just shit out of luck and you're going to need to grab
> more correct sets.
>
>

No problem, CLRMAMEPro has a pretty fucking unintuitive interface :)

Click on "Create"
Point it at the most recent MAME binary you have (or whatever target version of MAME you're using)
enter a little description, like "MAME 0.90u3"
Click on the dat you just created and click "Load/Update"
Click on Settings
Make sure the drop down box says "Rom Paths"
Click Add
Select your MAME rom path
Do the same for your samples, if you like. Also if your CHDs are in a different path from your ROMs, put that path in there as well (like C:\mame\chds or whatever)
Hit ok to go back to the main window
Click on "Scanner"

Now if you're updating your stuff to the most recent version and such, just throw caution into the wind and go all out here. Make sure you have sets, roms, and disk images checked (and samples too, if you've got 'em), make sure split sets is selected, for 'no dump' handing click "Create Missing" and "hide missing" (why? Who cares? :)).

Have everything under "Check" checked and everything under "Fix" checked as well. Uncheck "Ask Before Fixing" (Otherwise it's going to be asking you a lot of stuff). Under 'Advanced', check "Deeper check for fixable missing files". Under 'Checksums', click "Run analysis" and "Fix file if possible"

When you hit "Scan", it's going to go through all of your sets and pretty much tear the shit out of them. Games that worked in 0.79 probably won't work now but it'll fix what it can, tell you what specifically you're missing, rename files and correct parent/clone relationships, etc. You're going to be pretty busy on alt.binaries.emulators.mame for the next few days as you try to grab all of the files you need to fix all of your sets, but it's a good first step towards cleaning your stuff up and updating it.

> No problem, CLRMAMEPro has a pretty fucking unintuitive interface :)
>
> Click on "Create"
> Point it at the most recent MAME binary you have (or whatever target version of
> MAME you're using)
> enter a little description, like "MAME 0.90u3"
> Click on the dat you just created and click "Load/Update"
> Click on Settings
> Make sure the drop down box says "Rom Paths"
> Click Add
> Select your MAME rom path
> Do the same for your samples, if you like. Also if your CHDs are in a different
> path from your ROMs, put that path in there as well (like C:\mame\chds or
> whatever)
> Hit ok to go back to the main window
> Click on "Scanner"
>
> Now if you're updating your stuff to the most recent version and such, just
> throw caution into the wind and go all out here. Make sure you have sets, roms,
> and disk images checked (and samples too, if you've got 'em), make sure split
> sets is selected, for 'no dump' handing click "Create Missing" and "hide
> missing" (why? Who cares? :)).
>
> Have everything under "Check" checked and everything under "Fix" checked as
> well. Uncheck "Ask Before Fixing" (Otherwise it's going to be asking you a lot
> of stuff). Under 'Advanced', check "Deeper check for fixable missing files".
> Under 'Checksums', click "Run analysis" and "Fix file if possible"
>
> When you hit "Scan", it's going to go through all of your sets and pretty much
> tear the shit out of them. Games that worked in 0.79 probably won't work now but
> it'll fix what it can, tell you what specifically you're missing, rename files
> and correct parent/clone relationships, etc. You're going to be pretty busy on
> alt.binaries.emulators.mame for the next few days as you try to grab all of the
> files you need to fix all of your sets, but it's a good first step towards
> cleaning your stuff up and updating it.
>
>
>

Get Mame .90u3, collect all roms.

THANK YOU :)

I did what you said... it was pretty easy (doing it your way, instead of reading the stupid doc).. lol

When I set my roms for scanning, a window popped up and told me to 'rename' the roms... how do I do that?

Like I mentioned, I didn't install this on my computer... I just noticed it wasn't working properly when I tried to play some games and the 'person' who installed it on here won't help!!



> No problem, CLRMAMEPro has a pretty fucking unintuitive interface :)
>
> Click on "Create"
> Point it at the most recent MAME binary you have (or whatever target version of
> MAME you're using)
> enter a little description, like "MAME 0.90u3"
> Click on the dat you just created and click "Load/Update"
> Click on Settings
> Make sure the drop down box says "Rom Paths"
> Click Add
> Select your MAME rom path
> Do the same for your samples, if you like. Also if your CHDs are in a different
> path from your ROMs, put that path in there as well (like C:\mame\chds or
> whatever)
> Hit ok to go back to the main window
> Click on "Scanner"
>
> Now if you're updating your stuff to the most recent version and such, just
> throw caution into the wind and go all out here. Make sure you have sets, roms,
> and disk images checked (and samples too, if you've got 'em), make sure split
> sets is selected, for 'no dump' handing click "Create Missing" and "hide
> missing" (why? Who cares? :)).
>
> Have everything under "Check" checked and everything under "Fix" checked as
> well. Uncheck "Ask Before Fixing" (Otherwise it's going to be asking you a lot
> of stuff). Under 'Advanced', check "Deeper check for fixable missing files".
> Under 'Checksums', click "Run analysis" and "Fix file if possible"
>
> When you hit "Scan", it's going to go through all of your sets and pretty much
> tear the shit out of them. Games that worked in 0.79 probably won't work now but
> it'll fix what it can, tell you what specifically you're missing, rename files
> and correct parent/clone relationships, etc. You're going to be pretty busy on
> alt.binaries.emulators.mame for the next few days as you try to grab all of the
> files you need to fix all of your sets, but it's a good first step towards
> cleaning your stuff up and updating it.
>
>
>