CLRMame Help

[acevedor2]

Ok,I have been using Mame for a few years but I have never used CLRMame.  Anyway, I downloaded it and ran it tonight.  I was able to get through the setup and run the scanner.  That said, I have a rsults page but I really don't understand what it means.  I was hoping someone could help me decipher it.  It mentions  lot fo "no-dumps" but I have no idea what they are.  The text it output is below:

Missing Sets:             9 of 6507
Wrong SetName Case:       0 [0 fixed]
Wrong Named Sets:         0 [0 fixed]

Missing Roms:             664 (641 are 'nodumps') of 92971
Missing Bytes:            237mb of 51gb
Missing BIOS Roms:        0 of 89
Wrong Named Roms:         0 [0 fixed]
Wrong RomName Case:       0 [0 fixed]
Wrong Sized Roms:         0
Wrong Date/Time Roms:     0
Wrong CRC32s:             0
Wrong MD5s:               <n/a>
Wrong SHA1s:              <n/a>

Missing Samples:          35 of 2479
Wrong SampleName Case:    0 [0 fixed]

Missing CHDs:             189 (26 are 'nodumps') of 189
Wrong CHD Case:           0 [0 fixed]
Wrong Named CHDs:         0 [0 fixed]
Wrong CHD_MD5/SHA1s:      0

Unneeded Files/Folders:   21

Number Of Sets:           6507
Number Of BIOS sets:      29
Number Of Parents:        1447
Number Of Clones:         3005
Number Of Others:         2055
Number Of Roms:           92971
Number Of BIOS Roms:      89
Number Of Samples:        2479
Number Of 'nodump' ROMs:  641
Number Of 'baddump' ROMs: 464

[Silver]

Well its just showing you lots of info about your collection:


Missing Sets:             9 of 6507


means that you are missing 9 "sets" from the mame roms directory you just scanned. A Set being a whole game in a zip file.

Missing Roms:             664 (641 are 'nodumps') of 92971

This is a break down of the roms. Each game/set may contain hundreds of roms. Of the 92,971 roms in 6,507 games you are missing 664. BUT 641 of these are "no dumps" = do not exist. So in reality you are missing just 24 roms.


Note all the [0 fixed] stuff means that you ran the scan with various FIX tickboxes checked. I suggest doing this with caution (until you are confident) as it will change/rename/move/backup/delete your roms. Clrmamepro is great, but a wrong setup can cause havoc...!


Missing Samples:          35 of 2479

You are missing 35 samples.

Missing CHDs:             189 (26 are 'nodumps') of 189

You have no CHD's... in the rom directory you specified. A Lot of people keep CHD's in a seperate dir (you can add more than 1 rom dir in the setup section.)


Unneeded Files/Folders:   21

Literally means 21 files that are not recognised/misnamed. Ticking the "remove unneeded" options will remove these, but rename them if they are misnamed roms. If you have the Backup option set, it will store them in your backup folder too.


One last tip. under the "You prefer:  Non-Merged Sets, Split Sets, Merged Sets" It is EXTREMELY important to select what matches your set.

I use Split sets (as do most torrents). If you selected something else, clrmamepro would busy itself duplicating everything which would take a loong time.

[acevedor2]

Awesome - Thanks!

[Silver]

No worries - just added this info to the wiki:

http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/ClrMamePro

[Tiger-Heli]

Unneeded Files/Folders:   21
Literally means 21 files that are not recognised/misnamed. Ticking the "remove unneeded" options will remove these, but rename them if they are misnamed roms. If you have the Backup option set, it will store them in your backup folder too.

Be VERY careful with this option.  For example, MAME 110 might remove the requirement for samples for some games.  ClrMAME will correctly list these as unneeded.  If you delete them and then decide (for whatever reason) that you would prefer to run MAME 0.109 or 0.64, etc.  Those "old" deleted samples will ber VERY hard to find.

[Silver]

Good point, I'll add that to the wiki too....