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Dumb question on ROM versioning
Paul Olson:
The easiest way to make a complete set is to use the rebuild function in ClrMAMEPro. You can add all of the rom directories you have as the source files, then the program will build a set to a new directory. You just need to create a profile for the current version of mame, and it will do the rest.
Afterburner:
OK....I'm muddling my way through learning clrmame. I've followed a few of the guides I've run across, and I think I'm slowly learning how to use it.
I built a profile and ran the scanner function on the existing set of rom files and let if "fix" any issues with those.
I'm currently in the "rebuild" process, having pointed the updated roms as the source dir and the mame rom path as the destination dir. As I understand it, clrmame is effectively checking for differences between rom versions, unpacking the old ones, inserting the updated or changed rom files, and rezipping.
At the moment I'm keeping split sets.
Does the Rebuilder function also copy roms from the new directory that aren't currently in the mame rom directory?
Paul Olson:
The rebuilder is creating a new set in a new directory. When it is finished, that will be your new rom directory. Either point to it in the mame.ini, or clean out your rom folder and put the new set in there.
You can rebuild for any version of MAME you plan to use. If you need an old set, you will probably have to download a rollback set because the newer sets are not completely backwards compatible.
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