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Title: Rom identification help!
Post by: WedgeWood on July 13, 2009, 01:12:31 am

G'day all,

Hoping someone can help me here - I have a bunch of roms (~1000) that a mate gave to me, but I have no idea which version of MAME this set corresponds to.  Is there any programs that can look at my ROM folder and figure out which version of MAME this set belongs with, and therefore which diffs I need to to update these roms to the current 0.132 version?

ClrMamePRO seems to be able to fix most rom-related problems, but it needs to know the version of mame your rom-set works with.

Does this make any sense?  is there such a thing?

Cheers,

J

Title: Re: Rom identification help!
Post by: zorrobandito on July 13, 2009, 08:31:32 am

I think you might be a bit on your own here. It's dubious territory.

Grab a MAME version and try running a game with lots of recent revisions (virtua fighter, raiden, etc) and then simply step back through the MAME's 10 versions at a time e.g. mame0.130, mame0.120, etc until it does or doesn't work.

Title: Re: Rom identification help!
Post by: u_rebelscum on July 14, 2009, 03:45:01 pm

Another source of data is maws (http://maws.mameworld.info/maws/), as it lists the versions that each game's romset changed amoung other data.

Just from a database point of view, can you imagine the database size for 12 years of mame (8 years since switched to windows), and currently with over 8000 games & 100000 roms, currently with a new mame version every week or two?  Huge.

It's possible; maws sort of does it, but does not keep out data, just when a change happens.


But I don't know of any apps that do it either.

Title: Re: Rom identification help!
Post by: Kman-Sweden on July 15, 2009, 07:42:30 am

Use ClrMamePro to rebuild your roms using your Mame exe.
I was able to get ClrMamePro working with this OOOOOOOLD guide. http://www.geocities.com/dougburton/clrmamepro.html (http://www.geocities.com/dougburton/clrmamepro.html)
Then try out RomCenter to check if your roms are missing files and repair them or download the missing files using google.

Oh yeah, and make a backup of your roms before you begin, allright?
Good luck.

Title: Re: Rom identification help!
Post by: WedgeWood on July 21, 2009, 09:27:00 pm

Cheers Kman - sound like all kinds of fun :blowup:

Anyway, I'll give it a go - perhaps ClrMamePro has a bit more power than I first gave it credit for.

...then I'll finally get round to fixing MameWah - much easier  :-\

J

Title: Re: Rom identification help!
Post by: Kman-Sweden on July 23, 2009, 04:57:02 am

Did it work for you?