Ultra God Azgorath
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During import, LB will give you an option to tick if you want to combine games with the same or similar name or keep them separate. Yes cmp keeps all files separate if you have normal set mode selected, otherwise if you have 1g1r mode selected, cmp will keep the roms with the regions you selected and prioritized and delete/backup the others. -
I never use the merger option, only the scanner option.
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I'm not sure which region LB plays 1st. I think its alphabetical so E before U but I could be wrong. I've tried ES-DE. Awesome frontend. Very easy and fast but no retroachievement features yet. Once ES-DE gets RA features, I'll be switching over to it. I'm only still using LB because of the RA features. Yes but I don't mind doing it this way. I only want RA-compatible games so I'll download them as they're added.
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I have it downloaded and have tried it but cmp fits my needs better. No I delete the unmatched roms so yeah I have to redownload them if and when they're re-added. New games are added daily so I put new games in the DATs every day. Yes, LB combines both regions into 1 game and you right click the game and click "Play Version" and you select the version you want to play. As long as both regions are linked to the same achievement set, they'll both work with achievements. There's a few reasons why games would be removed from RA. There is 1 or more achievements that are broken and need to be repaired by the dev so the dev temporarily removes (demotes) the set to fix it and then promotes it back once he's fixed it. The RA team decided that an achievement set for a game is not worth having on the site for whatever reason. The ra team and/or dev decided to only have 1 region rom linked to a set. So instead of having USA and EUROPE both linked, they decide to keep only EUROPE linked since EUROPE has more languages and USA doesn't have anything that EUROPE doesn't already have. There may be other reasons but these are the most common reasons I've seen.
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Yes that's correct. I've removed it from the DAT now, thanks but there's probably a lot more like this in a lot of the other dats as well (I hope not though). cmp shows 1047 for me because I have 1G1R enabled with english regions prioritised. Romvault doesnt have 1G1R mode/feature so it looks for every single game that's in the DAT, in your rom folder. As for the 1789 sets and 1937 roms, I have no idea whats going wrong there because I've checked my DAT and there's 1883 entries (Sets) in the DAT and each set has 1 rom in it so you should be getting 1883 sets and 1883 roms, not 1789 and 1937. Each rom needs to be it's own entry, not grouped with others.
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cmp by default moves unmatched roms into a backup folder or you can tell it to delete them permanently instead. When it comes to adding and deleting games from the DATs, I add new games that are added on the RA homepage to the DATs but when they're removed and/or re-added after being removed for maintenance, I dont currently have a way to tell when they're removed and/or re-added from maintenance.
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So I have 2 rom folders on my pc. 1 folder, which is my main rom folder, contains cartridge-based platforms with zipped roms that are never unzipped and disc-based platforms with unzipped roms. I use cmp to scan only the cartridge-based platforms with the cartridge-based DATs in this folder. I import all the roms in this folder into LB. The 2nd folder contains disc-based platforms with zipped roms and I use cmp to only scan this folder with the disc-based DATs. CMP doesn't check your collection in real-time, only when you manually scan. If you look at the attached picture, you'll see that the platforms with the red circle are missing some roms while the platforms with green ticks means all roms were scanned and found. By keeping the directories saved and the roms saved in their respective directories, when I manually scan the folders, cmp will tell me if any roms are missing or not.
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With disc-based platforms (PS1, PS2, PSP, GC, etc), I usually keep 2 copies, the zipped copy to scan with cmp and the unzipped copy to import into LB and run with the respective emulator.
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What do you mean by rim?
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I don't know the 1st thing about rclone sadly. CMP does have a WWW mode but I couldn't come right with how to use it. With web downloads, it's backed up so if I lose the files on my PC, I can redownload them from the LB forums. All roms need to be zipped before you scan them with the DATs and CMP but whether or not you need the BIOS files and need to unzip the roms depends on the emulator you're using. RetroArch can run ZIPs natively without unzipping while CD-based emulators like duckstation, dolphin, pcsx2, ppsspp etc cant run zips natively so you'll need to unzip those manually.
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Even though they are 2 separate platforms, Retroachievements combines both platforms into 1 platform on the site so my DAT is only 1 DAT with all the compatible/linked games in it.
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Because Retroachievements doesn't support Atari 5200 yet.
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You're welcome. Yeah, one of the RA Team members has told me that he wants to make a dat-o-matic of sorts to host RA DATs in the future but we'll see what happens.
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No CMP is actually quite minimal and simplistic. All your roms need to be zipped before scanning as CMP only scans for zips and ISO is the standard in the official Redump DATs so they'll be the standard in my DATs as well aside from the GameCube RVZ DAT. I tried making CHD DATs in the past but users were getting different hash values even though they converted the ISOs the exact same way I do so I stopped it. As for languages, there is a "English" region for english translated games but other than that, everything else is region based so the language will be whatever the region is, just like the official nointro dats. As for versions, I usually give the latest versions region entries while older versions won't have region entries so they'll be deleted unless you use "Normal Set Mode" which will keep all versions.
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TBH you don't need a config from me or anyone else for clrmamepro. You just copy and paste the DATs into the "datfiles" folder in the clrmamepro folder, in clrmamepro select the platform and in settings add the platform rom directory, change the mode to 1g1r mode, select and prioritise the regions you want and select scan. It will keep the regions you want/prioritized and move the rest to a backup folder.
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@steve1977Thanks. Yes the dats are currently v2.0 where every linked game rom on the site is added to the dats instead of just 1 rom per game. Use these dats with clrmamepro if you want to use 1g1r to keep 1 rom of a specific region per game and delete the rest. Sadly I currently don't have an effective way of finding out when a rom or game is removed from the site so i can remove it from the dats but i'm open to some ideas if anybody has.
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That worked. Thanks.
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Beta 4 is, for some reason, crashing halfway through the update and even during a clean installation while beta 3 installs fine.
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@UplinkI did do it in the past but users were reporting different hash values than what was in the DATs, even though they converted the same roms i had and used the same program to convert them to chd that I used. I think different versions of chdman create different hash values so I stopped making chd DATs as a result. It would explain why there's no official/unofficial chd DATs anywhere as well.
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Try these: Far East of Eden - Tengai Makyou - Ziria (Japan) (Rev 7).cueFar East of Eden - Tengai Makyou - Ziria (Japan) (Rev 7) (En) (LIPEMCO! Translations) (v1.2).cue and here's the updated DAT: RA - NEC TurboGrafx-CD.dat
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The cheevo set is still demoted for repairs. I'll add it back once the set is back up.
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@BioHazZzard@OdioCheck out the latest version of the DATs for a special present you both asked for. You're welcome.😁
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Thanks for the heads-up. Corrected in next update.
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Sup BioHazzard. Yeah it's been hectic at work. Been trying to update the last few games but haven't had much free time. Next update should be this weekend sometime.
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