Geminii23 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 1 hour ago, JoeViking245 said: Ok. So I may have guessed wrong on SF3. [blush] Depends on which SF3 rom you're using. sfiii3u.zip is one of the US clone roms and uses the cap-3s-2.chd file You can find info here http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/?mame=sfiii3u scroll down to where it says Files and click/expand "Show Mame required Files". sfiii3.zip is the European (parent rom) release. The small sized zip (129kb compressed) file is the rom and the larger sized same-name.zip file will be the chd. The other (newer) US release is sfiii3ur1.zip which needs cap-33s-1.chd http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/?mame=sfiii3ur1 Wow. Thanks for sending this info. It will definitely help me figure out what files I am missing. I will keep you posted on how this progresses. I am thinking I might organize things better as well. Perhaps folders for each game with specified files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 lol you are making this so much harder than it has to be by not just getting a full set but its your time do with it what you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geminii23 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 1 hour ago, DOS76 said: lol you are making this so much harder than it has to be by not just getting a full set but its your time do with it what you want. Isn't a full set going to be thousands of games though? And require massive amount of space? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geminii23 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 So on PD site, I see Split, Non-Merged and Merged as my options for roms. What's the difference between these options? The Non-Merged is double file size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 4 minutes ago, Geminii23 said: So on PD site, I see Split, Non-Merged and Merged as my options for roms. What's the difference between these options? The Non-Merged is double file size. All three set types contain the same games, however they are structured differently, hence the file size difference. A Non-Merged set is the biggest as every single game zip has all the required files inside it including bios files, so essentially you will for example have several hundred copys of the neogeo.zip bios as it will be in every neogeo game zip. The other two set types share files amongst games, taking neogeo again as a example there will only be one copy of that in a set, and all games that need it will will get it from the same location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geminii23 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 Ok. Is there any advantage of one structure over the other? Also, I don't have enough space on my computer for all of this, so I needed to change my default download path in qtorrent to an external drive. Would moving this path be problem with downloading? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 To add, if you want to hand pick specific games like it seems that you do, then get the Non-Merged set. While it is indeed twice the size every game.zip will have all the files it needs to run, so picking out specific games to import is possible with that set. Picking out individual games from other sets is much more problematic as like i said in my previous post games will rely on files that are inside of other game zips as thats how it keeps that file size down, by just including a file once that many games may actually need to run that game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, Geminii23 said: Would moving this path be problem with downloading? You can download to wherever you like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geminii23 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 Ok. I am downloading the full non-merged set and will keep you all updated. Thanks again for all the help and support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro808 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 @Geminii23 Good to see you taking the less painful route. LOL. When I first started with Launchbox I had those hunt and pick collection of roms. Things worked fine until emulators kept getting updates and Launchbox kept getting better. Then I noticed all the rom issues. Trying to fix them just became a chore. Downloaded a full set and never looked back. Every so often with Mame I will update the set by downloading the newest one (I am not one that updates monthly) and it is as simple as dropping it into the same folder structure and Launchbox and Mame sees no difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geminii23 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 Ok. Downloaded complete .213 rom set. The Non-merged set. So I am now wondering should I try to use the Full Mame install option in LaunchBox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 That is what I do you can always delete the whole platform if you are unhappy with the results Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geminii23 Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 39 minutes ago, DOS76 said: That is what I do you can always delete the whole platform if you are unhappy with the results Or perhaps just delete games I don't like once I've tried them out. Of course with the amount of games included seems like more trouble than it's worth. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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