CriticalCid Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Thank you! I hope my English is good enough so you can follow everything what I’m trying to say in the tutorial. I must confess that writing a complete guide in English wasn’t that easy as I first thought it would be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fromlostdays Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Yeah man. Just read through it again. I can't even tell you're not a native speaker. So now double thanks for writing in English as my German is non existent, heh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted February 25, 2016 Author Share Posted February 25, 2016 Ok I downloaded the merged set from PD when I got the set originally so when I finish the scan and run the rebuilder using your instructions I get no new files created is it because if you downloaded the merged set you need to run a merged scan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted February 25, 2016 Author Share Posted February 25, 2016 Spoiler Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 CriticalCid said @SentaiBrad it seems I couldn' edit my placeholder post and it just created a new post. Maybe you can delete the placeholder then. Also if you want further information's for your video tutorial I would be very happy to help. @CrticalCid Can you confirm that the placeholder post I just edited matches the second part of the tutorial? If so, I'll delete the second post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted February 25, 2016 Author Share Posted February 25, 2016 You removed the place holder now the whole tutorial is there without any other posts in between it. So you don't have to remove anything else. If you could merge post 36 and 37 into the same post then the tutorial would be in one post that would work but it isn't a big deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 I just edited his placeholder post with the post he made below me. I didn't know he wouldn't be able to edit after I posted, I thought he could. Which by the way I'll have Jason allow to edit posts. So if they're the same, I'll delete Post 39. If Cid also wants the posts merged I'll merge them too, but for now I'll leave it how he intended it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted February 26, 2016 Author Share Posted February 26, 2016 yeah 37 and 39 are now dupes so that should work. Most users don't have editing issues after someone else posts to the thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Yea that I knew, but I don't know who has been giving editing or not. That'll need to be fixed... but it doesn't come up that often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted February 26, 2016 Author Share Posted February 26, 2016 I have elevated privileges if you are making a list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 I did make the placeholder because I didn’t know if the forum software has a max. text length per post so I wouldn’t run in any problems when I post the tutorial. Unfortunately now are the pictures in the tutorial are missing. I can only edit my last post of the thread if I made the last post in it, when someone posts after me than the post is locked and I can’t edit it anymore. @Dos76: Yes, when you change the merge type of your set it is the same as if you change your file format. A lot of your ROMs will get extracted and rezipped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Damn it, the images were there an hour ago. Let me have Jason give you editing permissions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted February 26, 2016 Author Share Posted February 26, 2016 Your instructions are very clear and concise I just can't get the rebuilder to do anything I tried a couple of times both using split and merged and I keep getting the same results it doesn't create any new files I think I'm going to just download the newest ROM set and then just wait for 6 months to a year and then just update everything at one time. Thanks for trying to help I just can't get it to work and really don't play enough Arcade games to waste anymore of my time on it. Thanks again for putting in the time and effort to write the tutorial hopefully it will help someone else out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Oh sorry, I noticed that I didn’t read your post right. It’s quite early in the morning for me… That’s odd. The rebuilder should normally rebuild your whole set to the merge option you chose. But what will definitely work is when you add your rompath with your merged ROMs to the add-folders, remove that folder from your “Rom-Paths”, add as your standard rom-path an empty new one and then auto-assign the new folder under the Systems tab. With that it should definitely rebuild your whole set into that new folder with the right merge setting. But be aware that a complete rebuild of a romset could take a few hours. And don't give up, you're almost there Edit: You may want to unitick "Remove matched source files" in the rebuilder in case something goes wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted February 26, 2016 Author Share Posted February 26, 2016 I don't know if you saw them but I posted my scan results and my rebuilder results it just doesn't make much sense to me I'm unclear about what they mean by a set when it says fixed unneeded sets 22,176/22176. What is a set? I know what a ROM is and a CHD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Yes, I saw your scan results. A set consists of every ROM (clones, parents and sometimes hacks) and CHDs who belong to the same game. When the scanner tells you that you’re missing 10 sets it means that 10 games don’t have every version of the game or you don’t have the game at all. And fixed unneeded simply says that everything is fine with your ROMs. But why the scanner would say that to your merged set even if you chose split I can’t tell you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Cid, you can go ahead and edit your posts now. I apologize for messing up the images. >.< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 No problem. I just had to reupload the screenshots. The tutorial should be now fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmonomad Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 thank you @criticalcid for your in-depth tutorial. Haven't seen a better one around google. Question: One step of your guide never seems to work for me. After following your instructions and when attempting to perform a simple scan, I'm always hit with an error about the system paths, not allowing me to complete the scan: "you're using sysdefpath options and at least one software list path is not unique. Software paths have to be unique and cannot be shared with others." I noticed others apparently don't have this issue, as google showed nothing for the error. Does this software literally require you to setup folder paths for 1000 different systems? Maybe someone else can chime in? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 Did you try to scan/update software lists and not only arcade games? I never heard of that error message either but I also never used Clrmamepro for software lists (I never bothered about MESS). If you don’t use Software Lists and only want to update your Arcade ROMs than it’s important that you click in Step 8 of my tutorial “NO”. Also it sounds like a problem in the systems manager (step 19 of my tutorial) maybe you can check if there everything looks similar to my screenshot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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