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Mame merged set question
gman314:
I recently updated to a merged .147 set. The problem is that some non-parent roms, such as Pac-man, are not included. I understand that the roms required to play Pac-man are zipped up in the Puckman set (the parent rom).
I was wondering what would be the easiest method to have Pac-man (and maybe a few other non-parent sets) show up in my rom list. I don't want to go through all the trouble of completely un-merging my set, but would like to pick and choose whatever non-parents I would like to show up. Can I just download an earlier version of these roms and copy and paste the required files over the old ones? Thanks in advance.
gman314:
Any advice on this?
BadMouth:
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The method would vary depending on your front end.
If it's Mala and you have it set to only display parent roms, then you'd just mark the rom as a parent in the XML file and refresh your main gamelist.
You'd still need the puckman rom in your rom folder so MAME can find the needed files.
The xml file is huge and takes a while to open, then freezes for a while each time you enter or delete a character.
My advice is to copy and paste the line to a new txt file, change it, then copy and paste it back in.
gman314:
My frontend is Maximus Arcade. Off the top of my head, I'm not sure if MA has an option to display all roms. Would either of these two ideas work:
1) Simply add a Pacman zip file from a previous version of mame in my roms folder (I am using 147 but also have a complete 127 and 113 set).
or 2) Create a zip file called "pacman", and the copy and paste the required files from the puckman folder into pacman.
gman314:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in a merged set are all of the roms for both the parent and all the clones zipped up a single file (the parent)? In other words if I want "pacman" to show up in list, could I just create an empty zip file and call it pacman.zip? Will this work since I already have the pacman files in the puckman.zip?
I wouldn't want to completely split my set just for a few roms to show up. Just out of curiosity though, if I did end up splitting the set, would it take up more space? The merged 147 set already takes up over 40 gb.