NervousJarred Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Awesome, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALLSTANLEY247 Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 (edited) I really new to this and need more tutorials any one no of any .im sure I haven't got it right in my head.i have downloaded mame 0.161 rom set and all 20 update packs .i point clrmamepro to rom set them point at each updat pack .keep doing this till the mame roms update to 0.181 .im totally wrong arnt I.im finding it really hard to understand what to do . Edited January 28, 2017 by CALLSTANLEY247 Missed words Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 What point of the tutorial do you don't understand? I need more details to be able to help you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALLSTANLEY247 Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Thanks cid I'm had rom set 0.153 And could never get arcade stuff to work.so I downloaded full rom set 0.161 last night .then downloaded all the 20 update packs to 0.181 .renamed the mame set 0.153 as backup placed the new 0.161 set in new folder within roms.downloaded the emulator to run 0.181 .hopeing I have done this part right i then moved onto clrmamepro and pressed create profile directly ,file name was my mame 0.161 roms.description mame 0.162,emulator mame.one I do this do I just keep going through 0.163,0.164,etc etc . i need a video step by step I work ten times better visilly learning than reading .any help would be great cid graham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 I'm not sure if I understand you correctly but you only need to create one profile which is based on your 0.181 MAME.exe The folder paths for your ROMs and Update Packs are getting added in Step 10 to 13. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALLSTANLEY247 Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Ok so make profile of 0.181 mame exe.and description ,call it update or something them just go through the next steps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Yes. Just do exactly what I say in each step and you should be fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALLSTANLEY247 Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 Ok thanks trying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckp Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 (edited) On 10/3/2016 at 1:49 PM, lordmonkus said: I bit the bullet today and decided to try and use clrmamepro to update my 177 rom set to 178 because apparently now the Capcom CPS2 roms requires a .key file. I have tried to use clrmamepro in the past but just gave up because it is such a pain in the ass. CriticalCid has a great and in depth tutorial here and really is awesome but if you are newer to the whole thing and want a simpler and easier to follow tutorial I recommend giving this one a try http://www.cphsolutions.f2s.com/guides/cmprotutorial.htm It's done in a step by step video which pauses itself til you are ready for the next step. I followed this and it worked out perfectly. Thanks, I'm trying this now to update 180 to 182... EDIT: Cool, it worked. Have a full 182 set now. The link @lordmonkus gave to the step by step video did the trick. Edited January 30, 2017 by ckp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbrogz3000 Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 (edited) Great info - I got into just downloading the full romsets probably 4 years ago, especially for MAME. I simply would download the update romsets, then drag and drop the new .zip contents into my complete rom folder... Since I play roms rather sporadically, I never realized this was completely wrong and I was overwriting the .zip files rather than adding/replacing content inside of the .zip files. I had assumed that the updates were including all original files in the .zips, but this is definitely not the case. I never took the time to figure out why some games, especially a lot of the CPS1 and CPS2 games would not work properly, or at all after performing an 'update' this way. I simply would use a different emulator for CPS1, CPS2 and NEOGEO roms, and use a separate rom folder for those platforms. Now I'm currently downloading all the MAME romsets again, especially since I'm migrating all ROM management over to launchbox/bigbox. Process works perfectly! Well written and detailed! Edited February 8, 2017 by mbrogz3000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaidIgloo Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 After 3 whole days that it took to scan/fix my rom set ect. I ran the rebuilder. I then re-scanned my roms. Looks like the scanner found some stuff that it missed with the first scan, thats fine. Question is, can I run the rebuilder again? Or will it mess something up? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CriticalCid Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 You can run the rebuilder as many times as you want. It won't break anything, only fix stuff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Hi @CriticalCid, Thanks for this tutorial its much appreciated. I'm currently trying to update from 0.182 to 0.184, I have the 2 update packs and have followed your instructions step by step, but when I click new scan I get this error and cant proceed, any ideas? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 If you don't have your games in the MAME ROMs folder then ClrMPro will have all types of issues I get errors for missing chd's even if I don't select the CHD part and if I do select the CHD part it tries to move all my CHD files into the ROMs folder when I don't let it it reports all my CHD's as missing if you don't have the files where the program wants them it may not be worth using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 5 minutes ago, DOS76 said: If you don't have your games in the MAME ROMs folder then ClrMPro will have all types of issues I get errors for missing chd's even if I don't select the CHD part and if I do select the CHD part it tries to move all my CHD files into the ROMs folder when I don't let it it reports all my CHD's as missing if you don't have the files where the program wants them it may not be worth using. Cheers @DOS76, I think I solved it, in the system tab where cid said to click on all, then auto populate there was a load of bios and a load of SOFT I unchecked all the SOFT and just checked all the BIOS boxes and it seems to be doing its thing now, so we will see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Cool let me know how it turns out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Will do, its been going for about 45mins and is 25% done. If the worst happens I will just download a complete non-merged 0.184 set and start from scratch, currently downloading .chd's all 435gb!! that's gonna take about 28 hours so I got plenty of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 Yo, @DOS76, turned out the folder it was backing up to filled my hdd up so had to cancel it at about 60% mother fudging hubbard!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 rom 0.184, done, .chd on there way so.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamerWithGlasses Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Quick question. 1st. Thanks to CriticalCid for this writeup. Easy to follow and without issue. 2nd. After I updated 0.182 to 0.183, do I need to keep the 0.182 to 0.183 update pack in the add-rom section or remove it and add the 0.183 to 0.184 rom set when I finally retrieve it? From what I read, I can keep all the update packs in here and add new (Add-Patch) to new sets when I need to correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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