FlightRisk Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 I must be just missing it, but where can I find a datfile to use in clrmamepro for the .197 recent MAME download? I looked on dat-o-matic and they are all for separate consoles, there is no "Mame" or "Arcade". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 You just point clrmamepro at the mame.exe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlightRisk Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 I was able to get a bit further. First, where do I get the samples? They don't seem to be in the same place (PD) that the Mame .197 roms come from. I had ones that I manually downloaded from twisty's a long time ago, but I assumed if clrmamepro wants to verify them, that there must be a .197 set of them somewhere. Next, I unchecked the option in the scanner for "bios files in separate folder" because it couldn't find the bios files and I am using a non-merged set, which I thought had the bios in each rom zip that needed them. So now I run the scan and it gets only 38/39050 roms. Every rom has unneeded files. And there are confusing platform looking names like "Apple //c" and "commodore 128".. So "Arkanoid MC68705P5 Interface [folder: arkanoid68705p3\bootstrap.bin" is unneeded. And: X Galaga (Namco rev.b) [folder: galaza - size 37kb) unneeded file: galaga\51xx.bin unneeded file: galaga\54xx.bin And so on about 39,000 times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 when I checked yesterday the extra set that contains the samples still hasn't come out yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlightRisk Posted May 2, 2018 Author Share Posted May 2, 2018 What what about all the unneeded files? Any idea what I am doing wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 I personally don't like CLRMAMEPro I use a tool called torrent check instead you point the program towards your MAME torrent and the path where you have you files downloaded it and then there are a bunch of text boxes for different actions it will remove any unneeded files that aren't in the new torrent and generate a text file telling you what files are missing or wrongly sized I used it this weekend for the 1st time and got all my MAME roms all up to date while removing 143 GB of unneeded chd files I had accumulated over time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlightRisk Posted June 18, 2018 Author Share Posted June 18, 2018 I think you mean "Torrent Checker" from Rhythm. Not sure I am allowed to link here. I guess the steps are to download the torrent file as if I was going to download the latest version of MAME, then use Torrent Checker by pointing to that torrent and roms as you mentioned, then selecting the checkboxes and letting it do its thing. I think then I can copy those files to the folder where the new torrent wants to put my downloaded roms (or point the torrent client to where roms are) and it will in effect do an upgrade, leave files I already have and just add the files to the folder once it sees what is already there. Is that right? I read somewhere that mame torrents try to let you do this sort of in place upgrade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 No its called Torrent Check and I don't know who makes it but do know the name of the programs I post. I learned about it from a post on the PleasureDome forums. Sounds like the program works exactly like the one you are describing though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlightRisk Posted June 18, 2018 Author Share Posted June 18, 2018 I wasn't assailing your attention to detail. ? I googled and couldn't find it, but found this one and thought that was it since it had the two options for torrent and files, etc. Thanks for the image. I tried it as one word just now and get different results so that may have been part of my problem, but apparently it is not easy to find. I can't find it in google. The only way so far is to go directly to PD and search using its search tool, it doesn't seem to be searchable any other way. The image they show for TorrentCheck 0.7 doesn't look anything like your screen shot though. http://wiki.pleasuredome.org.uk/index.php/TorrentCheck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 I'm using version 0.7c. Looking for the link but can't find it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 http://forum.pleasuredome.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=26754 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlightRisk Posted June 19, 2018 Author Share Posted June 19, 2018 Great! Thanks for going above and beyond to find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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