Download missing samples & art files (ie. snaps) automatically

[jasonbar]

Hi-

I answered my question--MAMEPP 115 does have listfull support, which I verified from the command line.

I made sure that my mame folder (and everything underneath it) was read/write.

I tried putting the ASAD executable in the same directory as my mame app & got the same error.

I'm running XP Home.


Any suggestions?


Thank you,
-Jason

[MKChamp]

Uploaded 1.0.6. I am HOPING this fixes the creation of the game/clone/sample files that is causing some people to get the "listfull support" error. Please try it out and let me know if it does. I don't have a 64 bit OS, so it is impossible for me to test.
Also, it this release, the downloading part is completely revamp. Should drastically speed things up...test it out!

[Dariusz]

MKChamp,

Thank for the reply. Re my last post, and you feedback. If v1.5 is saying I'm missing 48, and have the 48 available for download, why then after downloading the 48 snaps, and re-running the app, why does it still give me a result of 48 missing. I would have thought the missing 48 files which would have been downloaded if it reporting that the files are available for download?

Thanks,

Dariusz

[Teknique]

Sorry MK,

1.6 didnt fix my problem.  It did seem to get further though before giving me the same listfull error.  Status said 'creating games list' then 'creating clones list', then 'creating samples list', then it errored out.  Prior to this version it would error almost immediately.

Id be happy to help debug this for you if you wanted to send me a logging version of the program.

macantrell@hotmail.com

Tek

[MKChamp]

Ok OK....
Uploaded 1.7. Thanks to Teknique debugging some stuff for me...this one SHOULD work for everyone! :-) No more 'error creating game list' crap. Problem was for paths that had a space in the name...like yours Teknique.."mame .123".  Validate away!

Also, this version speeds up the validation part...minor if you couldn't validate anyways!

I plan on updating the unavailable list for every major(non u) release of mame to try to stay current...so if you are validating again a u release, it may state there are files missing that you won't be able to download.

Anyway...let me know if this release has any bugs.

[jasonbar]

Bam!  1.7 worked!  I did have a space in one of the folder names in my path--I guess that was my problem.

Very very cool application.  The download was pretty quick.

I'm really impressed by people who come up w/ things like this (I'm a mechanical engineer--software is over my head...).     The only constructive criticism I could give is that my progress bar & the text underneath was going by so quickly that I really couldn't tell what my actual progress was.  It didn't really matter to me, but I thought it was fun trying to guess how far along I was... :]


Thank you!!!
-Jason

[Dariusz]

Hi MKChamp,

I've tried 1.7, and I get the message when downloading 'cannot connect'. It may just be the server that's down when I'd tried  connecting. I will try  again later.

Thanks,

Dariusz

[arzoo]

Just tried 1.7. First off - great idea - thanks MKChamp! 

Here's how it worked (and didn't work for me)... After validation, I was missing a couple dozen files in all the groups with the exception of Artwork which was missing around 250 files. I ran 'Download All' and the status bar indicated it was downloading the artwork files. After the artwork download was complete, the status changed to 'Finished'. I immediately ran the validation again and this time it indicated I was missing approximately 250 files in all the groups - odd. So I checked the actual folders, sorting by timestamp. The artwork folder had about 220 new zip files; the other folders had none or one new file.

I ran ASAD again, validated, and this time the missing file list went back to indicating a couple dozen missing for each folder with artwork missing 209. So I tried downloading the folders individually. Each one indicated a status of "Couldn't Connect". Maybe the source sites are down, but that seems unlikely.

So it seems I was able to pull down about 220 new artwork files and that's about it. 

[MKChamp]

Ummmm....mameworld (where maws is hosted) is currently DOWN. I HOPE this has nothing to do with people using this thing...if it does...it is GONE.
The 'couldn't connect' is displayed when either the site is down or the file it is trying to get isn't available. Basically, if you want to attach your missing.txt file (generated when maws IS up) I can add those files to the unavailable list so it has all the files that do not exist.

[MKChamp]

Ok...doing a little investigating...looks like mameworld is blocking IP's....so....it was fun while it lasted. Thanks for all the input you guys gave. Learning experience = over :-)

[arzoo]

Ok...doing a little investigating...looks like mameworld is blocking IP's....so....it was fun while it lasted. Thanks for all the input you guys gave. Learning experience = over :-)

Bummer