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Title: mame rom set sorter
Post by: G1zm0 on August 26, 2008, 04:53:52 am

ive got lots of roms from different versions of mame,

and ive noticed some versions of mame wont run them,

 is there a program or way to check if all available roms on harddrve

and see if they work with that version of mame ? ive tryed a few and it cant see the file although the file is there

Title: Re: mame rom set sorter
Post by: Luigi on August 26, 2008, 07:00:57 am

www.clrmame.com

You select your mame.exe/mame32.exe and CLRMAME makes a list what if missing. You can then tell it where to find the missing files and it fixes the rom-set itself.

Title: Re: mame rom set sorter
Post by: retrometro on August 26, 2008, 09:17:24 pm

I posted a new topic a while back but couldn't get any responses....

i've been using romcenter and it's worked great.  what are the pros and cons of it vs clrmamepro?

thanks.

Title: Re: mame rom set sorter
Post by: NOP on August 27, 2008, 10:02:30 am

I think either romcenter or cmpro will work.  I use both, but I lean toward using cmpro with MAME sets, since that's what it was originally built for, and I use romcenter for console collections and "simple" (ie, 1 rom per zip) collections.  I like romcenter's ability to list your roms and see visually what it thinks the problems are.  cmpro is a workhorse, but I always have to make a backup of my collection before I let it tear into it, cuz the user interface is a little weird to get your mind around.