Best Practice for keeping MAME ROMs up to date

[bmonomad]

Re-doing step 8 and clicking 'no' solved the issue :) Appreciate the help!

[CriticalCid]

You’re welcome

[rmilyard]

So if you THINK you have a full set of ROM is there an easy way to verify that and see what might be missing?

[SentaiBrad]

Besides the Audit tool in something like MAMEUI? Not specifically, and I don't know if that will tell you missing games as much as just missing dependencies. If you have a recent MAME Split pack you should be good to go.

[CriticalCid]

You can either use the audit function in MAMEUI(FX) (this would be the fastest option) or you can follow the tutorial and the scanner will tell you what ROMs/CHDs/Samples are exactly missing.

[rmilyard]

CriticalCid said You can either use the audit function in MAMEUI(FX) (this would be the fastest option) or you can follow the tutorial and the scanner will tell you what ROMs/CHDs/Samples are exactly missing.

To be honest I tried the stuff in the post. I am not really sure what I am getting. In MAMEUIFX looks like total ROMs it knows about is 10,560 and when I click Available looks like I have 9375 So if not trying to update the ROMs but verify what missing do I skip something?

[CriticalCid]

Not really. Under Add-Paths you don’t need to add any update packs, just add the backup path and the extra MAMEUIFX games if you want but otherwise you should follow the whole tutorial

[CriticalCid]

There's also an updated version of the tutorial in case you didn't have seen it: https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/emulation/how-to-update-your-mame-romset-to-a-newer-version-with-clrmamepro