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Updating Rom sets


maxpwer

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Hi all,

I apologize a head of time if this is not the correct place to post this. I have a full rom set for MAME version .150 or at least I'm pretty sure it is full. SO I have some questions in regarding updating it and using some programs to do it so hear goes.

1. How can I tell if I have split or merged rom set?

2. I followed the tutorial on http://www.cphsolutions.f2s.com/guides/cmprotutorial.htm is there any other tutorials out there?

3. From the tutorial on cphsolutions website I do not see the dat file being used; do I need to use this file? I have seen other tutorials that mention downloading dat files and using them clrmamepro.

This is it for now thanks for any help.

Max

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you may want to look into romcenter, it does what clrmame does.

I think it has a more user friendly GUI and lower learning curve compared to clrmame.

only draw back to romcenter is that it takes a very long time to load the 20k+ MAME roms.

turn on the close caption and translate to English.

you always need a dat file, this file contains all the information needed to rebuild your rom set

you can get them here.

http://www.progettosnaps.net/dats_en.html

the good thing is that you can get lazy and create your own using the MAME emulator.

I don't know how to create them in clrmame but romcenter will give you the option to create a DAT file from your

MAME exe file.

With that been said, you should go to PD and download a Full split set of version .153.

you will need update pack: .151, .152 and .153 in order to upgrade from .150 to .153

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I went to download the dat file and I have 7zip installed. I unzip the dat file to clrmamepro dat folder and navigate to there but it shows nothing is added in the Mame 150 folder under the profile folder. Is this normal?

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Hi all I downloaded the dat file and get the following error when I try to use it with CLRMAMEPRO "no *.dat/* .xml files were found in mame_dats_150.rar" Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks.

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