Help with Mame.xml and Don's Tools

[karl264]

Hi all.   I'm pretty new to using Hyperspin and emulators.  I used Don's Hyperspin List generator to clean up my rom list.  It did a great job killing most of the non-working MAME roms.  I also filtered out the clones for now just to get a reasonable list.  However it is marking quite a few games as green/yes under games that are not actually working.  Mame itself is also saying working/ok but when you go to launch you get "The selected machine is missing one or more required ROM or CHD images.  Please..."  So I fired up Mame Plus instead of Mame 64 and it seems to recognize the game in question is incomplete.  I feel like I'm going around and around.  I hoping one of you helpful folks can recommend a good Rom/game auditor and suggest the best version of MAME to run with Hyperspin.  

[Yeuxkes]

The most current romset for mame is version 0.179 but within a few days 0.180 should be released. Phulshof usually is quick on the ball to make/update a working xml for MAME whenever a new release is out. I believe these can be found under the database section in the forums here. Besides the roms files you would also need the BIOS files that go together with that version of your roms. That could be the reason why you get the error that you are missing files. CHD images are required for some MAME games. The entire CHD set is quite large in size, just shy of 415 Gb for the 0.179 merged version. Here I would suggest you only go after the CHD's for the games you actually want to play unless you got the HD space and bandwidth to spare. Most of the CHD's are not working in MAME, someone can correct me on this if I got this wrong.

I usually audit my roms with clrmamepro together with the correct .dat file for that set. For the actual emulator I use the 64bit version of Mame but there are plenty of alternatives if you fancy something more advanced. 

I hope this info will get you started in the right direction, you'll probably will need some of your google-fu to track down some of the things I mentioned above. 

[32assassin]

the only thing Hyperspin List Generator does is make a generic  XML of the roms  YOU HAVE.

what ever roms you added to your Folder (being scanned) will be listed in the XML created by Hyperlist Generator.  If you are Missing roms inside your zip files

(you obviously have since you are getting missing rom errors by MAME). they will still be listed in the xml.

 

You should get a FULL split MAME set, and filter your XML to only display the games you want.

the official MAME, XMls does not have any Non-Working games in them.  You should use the other programs in the Don's Tools folder to trim the games you do not want from official MAME XMLs.

[karl264]

Thanks for the responses.  You guys are very patient.  I'll check out  clrmamepro to see if I can clean up what I have.  I think I was just surprised that one version of mame called a rom good while another correctly identified it as not.   I'll probably also just start with a fresh set and move the ones I like and know are good manually into my roms folder.  Better small and clean to start.  Thank you again.