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Title: Where to download DAT files?
Post by: Demon-Seed on August 20, 2002, 11:01:18 pm

Hi,
I want to add the consoles to my Lazarus but I need dat files for each system. Can someone explain to me where to get them and what versions I need??? I can not find them on line.. you can even email me if u have em!!

Thanks
Jim

Title: Re:Where to download DAT files?
Post by: Demon-Seed on August 20, 2002, 11:06:06 pm

Howard has a list generator on his site..i will try it

Title: Re:Where to download DAT files?
Post by: Slice on August 21, 2002, 03:44:55 am

OK, I have an answer and a question. If you go to http://www.romcenter.com/  you'll find DAT files there. There are however different types and this is my question - can anyone tell me the basic differences between the naming conventions, do they make any difference?

Title: Re:Where to download DAT files?
Post by: )p( on August 21, 2002, 03:54:18 am

Quote from: Slice on August 21, 2002, 03:44:55 am

OK, I have an answer and a question. If you go to http://www.romcenter.com/  you'll find DAT files there. There are however different types and this is my question - can anyone tell me the basic differences between the naming conventions, do they make any difference?

romcenter uses a slightly different format. Lazarus uses the clrmamepro format which is essential the format mame uses to generate -listinfo information. There are utilities that can convert between these formats. See http://caesar.logiqx.com/ (http://caesar.logiqx.com/)

uptate: sorry I am still a bit sleepy ;-) the utilities are on the homepage: http://www.logiqx.com/ (http://www.logiqx.com/)

Title: Re:Where to download DAT files?
Post by: Demon-Seed on August 21, 2002, 04:08:52 am

Hey,
But I do not see some systems ie)NES for nes I have almost all the roms I want so I just used Howards list generator and it worked great. :)

Title: Re:Where to download DAT files?
Post by: )p( on August 21, 2002, 04:31:56 am

Quote from: Demon-Seed on August 21, 2002, 04:08:52 am

Hey,
But I do not see some systems ie)NES for nes I have almost all the roms I want so I just used Howards list generator and it worked great. :)

Yes I know  :)
Slice's question was about those datfiles for romcenter and they have to be converted to clrmamepro format to use with lazarus...
These datfiles sometimes contain addtionally information like the year, manufacturer etc. Anf in those cases are still interesting to use instead of the listgenerator because it will give you addtional filter options later on...

Peter

Title: Re:Where to download DAT files?
Post by: Demon-Seed on August 21, 2002, 11:22:58 am

Hi,

I am having probs converting.. I download a nes.dat file from good dats.... and want to convert it so I can use it.

I tried

datutil -o new.dat nes.dat-but that gives me an error

tried something like datutil -f listinfo nes.dat or soemthing same errors

could someone spell it out for me?

Title: Re:Where to download DAT files?
Post by: Howard_Casto on August 21, 2002, 04:13:46 pm

Just type in datutil datname.dat...
it will automatically convert from one to the other and name the new dat datutil.dat or soemthing like that.

Also one of our patrons is making a brand new dat maker which supports different file extensions and multiple directories.  Look for that to be released very soon.