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So how often do the ROMs themselves get updated?
cadis12:
Sorry if I missed this in the above posts but here is my question...
If I have a 0.117 romset is there some type of program to upgrade my set to .118? Or do I just have to obtain the entire romset again? I just can't keep up with the updates!
Circo:
--- Quote from: cadis12 on August 18, 2007, 10:50:43 am ---Sorry if I missed this in the above posts but here is my question...
If I have a 0.117 romset is there some type of program to upgrade my set to .118? Or do I just have to obtain the entire romset again? I just can't keep up with the updates!
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All that you have to do is obtain the roms that have been added or changed since .117. Use clrmamepro to update your existing set to .118 and then use the missing list to find what roms that you need to complete the set.
fjl:
This is usually what I do to keep the old mame sets working with previous mame versions and still get the latest versions of the rom sets. For example lets say I want to update the rom set from 0.117 to 0.118.
First I have my existing 0.117 official roms on a folder separated from everything else. C:\roms
Then I have a folder with the old mame program like c:\mame32v117
I run the torrent to download the latest rom set and point it to download them to my official rom set directory(c:\roms). While its checking the files, it will say something like dkjr.zip has a bad check sum.
So what I do is move that bad zip file to c:\mame32v117\roms
What that does is makes it so that when I run mame version 0.117, it will first check its own ROM directory for the files before it checks the official directory of c:\mame\roms. So it will run the unchanged 0.117 roms before it runs the updated 0.118 roms located in the official roms directory. Of course you have to set mame to look for rom in both directories. But put c:\roms as the second directory/folder to check for roms.
I repeat this process for each rom file until finally each and every rom that is going to be updated for romset 0.118 is moved to the old mame's rom folder. As for mame version 0.118, I set it to look for roms in both its own rom directory and the official romset directory. The end result is that c:\roms will contain the latest romset 0.118 while c:\mame32v117\roms contains ONLY the 0.117 roms that where going to change to 0.118.
Not sure if that made sense to anyone but if it did and you know of a better way to do this then please speak out.
Hoopz:
Why not just point your torrent to the existing rom set? It then checks them first and you start about 96% on the download? May not be as clean but its much easier. Point, click, play....
fjl:
Isn't that what I said or did I not make that clear?
But yeah, thats what I do. I point the new rom set to the existing rom set. That's why the roms that are to be updated get that bad check sum error. Those that do I move them to the previous mame versions rom folder.
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