Clrmamepro help

[BORIStheBLADE]

Now that I have finished my cabinet I decided to get all the new software and start setting it up. A while ago I downloaded a whole romset ( I don't remember which version it was) and keeped the games I wanted. Now I have a handful of games that won't play with the new version of MAME. I have heard on here to use Clrmamepro to fix this mess. I spent some time trying to find a guide, but can't seem to do this right.

All I would like to do is bring my games up to date. I really don't know what to do once I have scanned my list.

If anyone can help or point me to a guid I might have missed it would be appreciated.


Now I know why you guys are running ancient versions of MAME

Thanks

[Minwah]

If it's only a handful, just delete the ones which ClrMAMEPro reports as bad...maybe you deleted some parent roms which are required for others to work.

[u_rebelscum]

All I would like to do is bring my games up to date. I really don't know what to do once I have scanned my list.

After scanning, cmpro shows you what files (think ROMs) are missing from which sets (think zip files).  If you can find those missing files, you can drag and drop them into the list and cmpro will add them to the correct sets.

You have to find the missing files for cmpro, though.  (Can't help you there.)

[BORIStheBLADE]

So I did a scan with Clrmamepro and this is how I have it setup.



This is the info that came up for the 50 games I have.

Missing Sets:             6768 of 6996
Wrong SetName Case:       0 [0 fixed]
Wrong Named Sets:         0 [0 fixed]

Missing Roms:             94414 of 97657
Missing Bytes:            49gb of 54gb
Missing BIOS Roms:        97 of 107
Wrong Named Roms:         0 [40 fixed]
Wrong RomName Case:       0 [0 fixed]
Wrong Sized Roms:         2 [0 fixed]
Wrong Date/Time Roms:     0 [0 fixed]
Wrong CRC32s:             0
Wrong MD5s:               <n/a>
Wrong SHA1s:              <n/a>

Missing Samples:          <n/a>
Wrong SampleName Case:    <n/a>

Missing CHDs:             219 of 219
Wrong CHD Case:           0 [0 fixed]
Wrong Named CHDs:         0 [0 fixed]
Wrong CHD_MD5/SHA1s:      0

Unneeded Files/Folders:   0 [186 fixed]

Corrupt Containers:       0

Number Of Sets:           6996
Number Of BIOS sets:      35
Number Of Parents:        1525
Number Of Clones:         3213
Number Of Others:         2258
Number Of Roms:           97657
Number Of BIOS Roms:      107
Number Of Samples:        2139
Number Of 'nodump' ROMs:  1100
Number Of 'baddump' ROMs: 510




So you mentioned I need to look for the missing files, whats the point of the rebuilder then?

[BORIStheBLADE]

Right now I'm in the process of getting ... the rom set for .124 so If I have that I shouldn't have a problem with games running now right?

[u_rebelscum]

Even though it might not matter to you any more...

So you mentioned I need to look for the missing files, whats the point of the rebuilder then?

The rebuilder isn't used that much, especially since you can rebuild by dragging and dropping into the scanner.  (Actually, the scanner automatically starts the rebuilder, but the user doesn't need to know.)  Anyways, lets say you have a bunch of old rom sets, and a bunch of semi-new.  Clrmamepro can take all those zip files and build the correct sets for the version of mame you're using.  As long as the roms are found somewhere in the zips, clrmamepro will put them in the correct places.  Then you know exactly what you're missing and don't need to DL the whole romm set if one rom in the zip changed/was added; just find that one part and clrmamepro will put it in the correct zip file.  (Sometimes you might see update zips, which have just the new/changed roms, and won't work without the roms in the old set.)

Of course, if you have the correct rom set you want, you don't need clrmamepro.  However, with the lighting fast changes to mame, clrmamepro is a lot of help.

[BORIStheBLADE]

Even though it might not matter to you any more...

So you mentioned I need to look for the missing files, whats the point of the rebuilder then?

The rebuilder isn't used that much, especially since you can rebuild by dragging and dropping into the scanner.  (Actually, the scanner automatically starts the rebuilder, but the user doesn't need to know.)  Anyways, lets say you have a bunch of old rom sets, and a bunch of semi-new.  Clrmamepro can take all those zip files and build the correct sets for the version of mame you're using.  As long as the roms are found somewhere in the zips, clrmamepro will put them in the correct places.  Then you know exactly what you're missing and don't need to DL the whole romm set if one rom in the zip changed/was added; just find that one part and clrmamepro will put it in the correct zip file.  (Sometimes you might see update zips, which have just the new/changed roms, and won't work without the roms in the old set.)

Of course, if you have the correct rom set you want, you don't need clrmamepro.  However, with the lighting fast changes to mame, clrmamepro is a lot of help.

Before I finished getting the new set I went through the motions with the rebuilder and when I put those new roms in the roms folder then refreshed my game list I ended up with games I never heard of, more games then I started with  and some of my roms still didn't work.

I don't get it.