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Title: mame version, rom version
Post by: astro57 on March 22, 2008, 06:00:08 pm

Is there a way to know what version of mame your roms will work in?
Thanks, Dave

Title: Re: mame version, rom version
Post by: TheShanMan on March 22, 2008, 06:41:27 pm

Not really other than trial and error by doing an audit/clrmamepro check against different builds of mame. Romsets themselves don't have anything that says "I'm valid for mame version x".

Title: Re: mame version, rom version
Post by: u_rebelscum on March 24, 2008, 06:15:39 pm

You can sort of do it by hand, too.  MAWs (http://www.mameworld.net/maws/) lists the needed files and their expected CRCs; or you can look in the mame -listxml output.   ::)

Whether you go by hand or cmpro, the nice thing about MAWs (http://www.mameworld.net/maws/) is it lists when the rom set made changes.  Then you only need to check a mame between those versions rather than all versions of mame.