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| menace:
Download clrmame pro from www.clrmame.com and install, Download older mame program from www.mame.net/oldmame.html and install, preserving directory structure Step 1 Creating a DAT file You can either use clrmame pro or your command prompt Using clrmame: In filename box, Locate your mame program and hit |
| Jakobud:
This won't always work... if a rom dump itself actually changes from version to version then CMPro usually can't change it back because the old file is just a completely different file of different size with information added or removed that the dats just don't document. By the way, you can download all the dats you will ever need from here: http://www.logiqx.com/ He has perfect dats from all Mame versions (+ supplemental dats for all versions) available for download. PS - wrong forum ::) |
| Grasshopper:
Thanks for that useful info. Unfortunately the clrmamepro link doesn't work. Is it possible to take a partially complete older set of ROMs and somehow get clrmame to fill in the gaps from a newer ROM set? I've got a set of CDs for MAME 0.37 but one of the CDs is partially corrupted and not all the ROMs can be copied. I've got a set of MAME 0.85 ROMs but I'd still like to repair my 0.37 set so I can use it on slower machines. Thanks in advance. |
| Jakobud:
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on August 31, 2004, 02:06:14 pm ---Thanks for that useful info. Unfortunately the clrmamepro link doesn't work. Is it possible to take a partially complete older set of ROMs and somehow get clrmame to fill in the gaps from a newer ROM set? I've got a set of CDs for MAME 0.37 but one of the CDs is partially corrupted and not all the ROMs can be copied. I've got a set of MAME 0.85 ROMs but I'd still like to repair my 0.37 set so I can use it on slower machines. Thanks in advance. --- End quote --- He got the website wrong. Its here: http://www.clrmame.com/ Regarding your 0.85 -> 0.37 question, you can try doing a rebuild, and I am willing to bet that it will be able to rebuild probably 50% of what you need. But like I said before, it can't rebuild everything. |
| Martoon:
--- Quote from: Grasshopper on August 31, 2004, 02:06:14 pm ---Thanks for that useful info. Unfortunately the clrmamepro link doesn't work. Is it possible to take a partially complete older set of ROMs and somehow get clrmame to fill in the gaps from a newer ROM set? I've got a set of CDs for MAME 0.37 but one of the CDs is partially corrupted and not all the ROMs can be copied. I've got a set of MAME 0.85 ROMs but I'd still like to repair my 0.37 set so I can use it on slower machines. Thanks in advance. --- End quote --- Use a 0.37 dat file. Set the directories containing your existing and/or partial romsets (and anything else you think may contain some of the files) as source directories, and an empty directory as your roms directory, and tell ClrMamePro to rebuild. It will go through all the source directories you gave it, and use any files it finds to build the output directory. If you have the files it needs for any particular romset, it will find them. |
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