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Bonecollektor:
Ok, so I followed the tutorial for RomCenter to a tee and things seemed to be going well. They have an option to remove unnecessary files and bad roms. WooHoo...right? Wrong. Oh it deleted the bad roms along with whatever else it wanted to and even made some of my "green" working games unplayable. I had to go into my recylce bin and restore a bunch of crap to get them working again. Ugh.

I've tried the clrmamepro as well and don't see any differences with it either. I have all the filters set to only show good roms etc...but there are still games that fail to load.

I make sure to update my list every time I make a change outside of GameEx.

I'm still very new to this and have been reading a ton of material but, I still dont have a firm grasp on all of it. So correct me if i'm wrong: if i have version X of mame then my roms need to be compatible with version X. Clrmamepro and romcenter check the roms by using the mame version X.exe as a source to compare and popluate a list of good, needs something, and broken categories. The ones that are green are supposed to be olayable with version X of mame. The yellow (needs something) can be changed by either tool and normally can be fixed. The red (broken files) areissing some sort of file to complete the set.

Correct? Or no?

And while we are on the topic, sets. One tutorial i followed told me to unmerge all my roms in order to run the scan. Is there any way to merge them back? Now i'm seeing all kinds of crap I don't need to see.

I just didnt want to go through the process of starting every game in my list to see if it actually works of if it needs deleted but, i'm running out of options.

Lastly, and I am not trying to post material i'm not supposed to but, if i have a rom that i got from website Y, how doni know if its compatible with my version of mame, emulator, etc...?

Sorry for all the questions.

Dawgz Rule:
1. Make sure your ROMS match your Mame version.
2. All of your ROMS can be dumped to one folder. (Recommend using the default folder)
3. Verify your gameex settings per previous poster.
4. Dump the gamelist file (I think it is gamelist.txt) in the gameex folder.
5. Restart gameex.

It will recreate the gamelist based on your settings. Should be good to go.

Bonecollektor:

--- Quote from: Dawgz Rule on September 04, 2013, 04:30:31 pm ---1. Make sure your ROMS match your Mame version.
2. All of your ROMS can be dumped to one folder. (Recommend using the default folder)
3. Verify your gameex settings per previous poster.
4. Dump the gamelist file (I think it is gamelist.txt) in the gameex folder.
5. Restart gameex.

It will recreate the gamelist based on your settings. Should be good to go.

--- End quote ---

1. Not sure how else to do this except use clrmamepro or rom center
2. Roms are all in one folder
3. Settings verified
4. Do you mean let mame generate the game list?
5. Every time I make a change i restart gameEx.

Normally i let GameEx generate the list and do an "update list" within GameEx.

Dawgz Rule:

--- Quote ---Do you mean let mame generate the game list?
--- End quote ---

No, the gameex list of games that is displayed is stored in a text file in the gameex folder. I believe the name of it is gamelist.txt.

I have seen a bug in gameex where the update list option doesn't work correctly. The workaround is to delete the gamelist.txt file. When you do this and restart gameex, it will build a new game list based on the parameters you set up in the mame advanced settings.

Bonecollektor:
Oh ok, i see what you're saying. I'll give that a try. Most of the other tutorials always reference a "listinfo.dat" file that needed to be deleted but that never seemed to help. I'll give your idea a try. Thanks foe the reply. I'll keep you posted. :)

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