maxforwardspeed Posted October 1, 2022 Posted October 1, 2022 (edited) Posted on discord, but thought I'd see if anyone here knows how to help. I used the arcadeitalia's site to filter 4-way games and compile a .dat with the results from MAME 0.78, which is what it seems the mame2003plus reference set was based. I'm using this dat in Clrnamepro to try and rebuild the set by matching my source set as non-merged in the scanner. Even though the end result appears correct with the proper game names from my list, it always results in games with missing files that become unplayable (Pac-Man/puckman as an example). It doesn't seem to matter how I set the merge type for the destination either. I thought this method would be the easiest way to get my new set of only 4-way games, but I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. Any tips would be greatly appreciated! Thanks. Edited October 1, 2022 by maxforwardspeed Quote
JoeViking245 Posted October 1, 2022 Posted October 1, 2022 A shot in the dark, when you downloaded the MAME xml, did you set the version there? Or just in the search? Next I'd say, open the xml, look for "puckman" and compare the ROMs it lists with what's in your zip file and make sure those match up. Above is the 0.78 set. Quote
maxforwardspeed Posted October 2, 2022 Author Posted October 2, 2022 I actually did not use the MAME.xml, only the dat download option and used that exclusively to rebuild the set in Clrnamepro. By creating the mame.xml would I just create a profile from that instead of using the dat? Or am I going about this all wrong and need to use both? Quote
JoeViking245 Posted October 2, 2022 Posted October 2, 2022 8 minutes ago, maxforwardspeed said: I actually did not use the MAME.xml, only the dat download option and used that exclusively to rebuild the set in Clrnamepro. By creating the mame.xml would I just create a profile from that instead of using the dat? Or am I going about this all wrong and need to use both? Sorry. I don't clrmamepro that often. Yes, you're right. Use the dat file. You can open and search it the same way with a text editor to verify against your ROM. Quote
maxforwardspeed Posted October 2, 2022 Author Posted October 2, 2022 Thanks! Yeah I still don't feel very confident that I'm using the program correctly, even after watching multiple tutorials. I'll take a look at the text of the dat to see what's different from my set. 1 Quote
maxforwardspeed Posted October 2, 2022 Author Posted October 2, 2022 (edited) I got it working finally. For some reason my .dat was missing many of the roms that should have been included in each .zip. I created a new one and this time they were there. Now I'll see if these 4-way games play any better on my 8-way sticks with that enhancement in this RA core. Thanks @JoeViking245 Edited October 2, 2022 by maxforwardspeed 1 Quote
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