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speedklz:

THanks.. Thats a little more clear.. and yes clrmamepro is so hard to understand I have read the thing several times over and I am still a little nervouse about using it cause I dont really understand what it is about to do to my roms.  :dizzy:

DeLuSioNal29:

I have an old machine that I put together and I used Game Launcher for MAME (DOS).  It comes with a program called "MAMESCAN.EXE" that will scan your roms.  You can add switches to the mamescan.ini file to add or remove games automatically.

Here's an excerpt from the docs:

"Using mamescan.exe

mamescan.exe is a command line tool that automatically creates a .map and .rom file for MAME by scanning the ROMs you have installed. It uses the MAME executable to figure out which ROMs are buried inside merged ROMs. By default, only the primary ROMs are included and all clones are skipped. Individual ROMs may be included and excluded by using a constraint file.

You can force the inclusion and exclusion of individual ROMs in the configuration file if you want to override the default choices. In the constraint section of the config file, any line beginning with a '+' forces inclusion and any line beginning with a '-' forces exclusion. For example, the pacman.zip file contains the games pacman (the Namco version) and pacmanm (the Midway version). The "primary" ROM is pacman and the clone is pacmanm, so mamescan will include pacman and exclude pacmanm. Say you do not want to include pacman, but want to include pacmanm. You can add the following lines to the constraint section of the configuration file:

-pacman
+pacmanm
"

I'm sure it doesn't apply to your situation, since mamescan.exe only works with Game Launcher, but I thought I'd mention it.  Perhaps there is another utility out there that will work with a front end that you are using?

DeLuSioNaL29

turnergw:

Another, perhaps easier way around this is to move the differing types of rom into different sub folders of your ROMs folder.  In mame.ini, you can specify multiple folders which will be scanned for roms, like:

rompath                   roms; roms\bios; roms\clone

Then you can put the bios files (such as atarisy1.zip) in the bios subfolder, clones in the clones folder, and so on, and they will still be accessible by MAME, but won't be picked up by a scan of the 'roms' folder (as long as the front end is configured not to look in sub-directories)

I have mine organised this way and it seems to work well.


mark6437:


--- Quote from: turnergw on November 17, 2009, 04:59:55 am ---Another, perhaps easier way around this is to move the differing types of rom into different sub folders of your ROMs folder.  In mame.ini, you can specify multiple folders which will be scanned for roms, like:

rompath                   roms; roms\bios; roms\clone

Then you can put the bios files (such as atarisy1.zip) in the bios subfolder, clones in the clones folder, and so on, and they will still be accessible by MAME, but won't be picked up by a scan of the 'roms' folder (as long as the front end is configured not to look in sub-directories)

I have mine organised this way and it seems to work well.


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This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! THX!!!

I actually tried this, I put the system files and clones into their own directories but I didnt edit the mame.ini file

THX again

Mark


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