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updating mame....will i lose my high scores?
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: screaming on July 19, 2004, 01:07:20 pm --- You would have to update your ROMs incrementally. It's huge hassle and it's pretty time consuming, which is why most people don't do it unless they have to ;)
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Who told you that bologna? You can certainly jump to any revision you want. ClrMAME will sort everything out, and let you know what you're missing.
hulkster:
well i have the rom updates for .81 to .82, .82 to .83, etc. my question was will i have to update the first, then the second, or can i just do this...
i have v .80 roms....i will use the .83 to .84 rom update to go to the latest version. will that work?
SirPeale:
If you have them on seperate CDs (or DVDs) ClrMAME can just pull what it needs from them. Just put the CD path as an addpath.
mr.Curmudgeon:
Pardon my ignorance, but I've never really understood the complexities of updating ROMS sets.
I've got a full .79 set, with updates stepping .79-.80, .80-.81, etc... Can't you just dump the .80 roms in the rom directory, then the .81 and so on? Doesn't this copy over old roms and add any new ones? Am I missing something?
Then wouldn't you use ClrMAME to just doublecheck?
I guess I'm confused by the word 'installing', it's making it sound very complex.
SirPeale:
With updates that are *just* the changed ROMs, if you dump those in you will overwrite the existing set that's in there. Which is really bad if it's an 80M set that only needs a 500k update file.
What ClrMAME does is look in the addpaths for these updates, pulls what it needs out and inserts it into the ROMset.