Clrmamepro Help

[Guest]

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I usually have the extra's zipped into one file. Ex. cabinets.zip,
icons.zip etc...and clrmamepro works great. Now I have all the files
unzipped into their respective directories. Is there a way to tell
Clrmamepro to search the "unzipped" files to check if I have all the proper
files with the updated DAT files?

Thanks

P.

 

[mcr]

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Paul M wrote:
> I usually have the extra's zipped into one file. Ex. cabinets.zip,
> icons.zip etc...and clrmamepro works great. Now I have all the files
> unzipped into their respective directories. Is there a way to tell
> Clrmamepro to search the "unzipped" files to check if I have all the proper
> files with the updated DAT files?
>
> Thanks
>
> P.
>
>

What made you want to unzip them? I found that just dropping the most
recent *.zip into the rebuilder updates all the extras without any extra
maintenance. Zipping also has the benefit of smaller HD space being
used etc...

--
MCR
MAME(tm) - History In The Making
www.pleasure-dome.org.uk

 

[sinner]

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* MCR Wrote in alt.games.mame:

> Paul M wrote:
>> I usually have the extra's zipped into one file. Ex.
>> cabinets.zip, icons.zip etc...and clrmamepro works great. Now I
>> have all the files unzipped into their respective directories.
>> Is there a way to tell Clrmamepro to search the "unzipped" files
>> to check if I have all the proper files with the updated DAT
>> files?
>>
>>
>>
>
> What made you want to unzip them? I found that just dropping the
> most recent *.zip into the rebuilder updates all the extras
> without any extra maintenance. Zipping also has the benefit of
> smaller HD space being used etc...
>

With the extras, HD space savings is negligible as a zip, but I agree
that unzipping is just messier and unnecessary.

--
David

 

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Paul M schrieb:
> I usually have the extra's zipped into one file. Ex. cabinets.zip,
> icons.zip etc...and clrmamepro works great. Now I have all the files
> unzipped into their respective directories. Is there a way to tell
> Clrmamepro to search the "unzipped" files to check if I have all the proper
> files with the updated DAT files?

clrmamepro supports unzipped files by default. You only have to be aware
of the standard storing scheme:

<rompath>\<setname>.zip for zipped sets
<rompath>\<setname>\<rom 1 .... rom n> for unzipped sets.

So for example the setname of the controlpanels is (defined in the
datfile) "cpanel". So you either you store cpanel.zip in a rompath or
your create a subfolder called "cpanel" in a rompath and store the
unzipped png files in there. Note: The rompath is the parentfolder of
cpanel.


Sounds complicated? nah....just follow the upper 2 rules and look at the
datfile to get the setname

Roman

 

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The reason is that "full torrents extra's" come none zipped.

P.


"MCR" <mark.coleman10@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Paul M wrote:
>> I usually have the extra's zipped into one file. Ex. cabinets.zip,
>> icons.zip etc...and clrmamepro works great. Now I have all the files
>> unzipped into their respective directories. Is there a way to tell
>> Clrmamepro to search the "unzipped" files to check if I have all the
>> proper files with the updated DAT files?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> P.
>>
>>
>
> What made you want to unzip them? I found that just dropping the most
> recent *.zip into the rebuilder updates all the extras without any extra
> maintenance. Zipping also has the benefit of smaller HD space being used
> etc...
>
> --
> MCR
> MAME(tm) - History In The Making
> www.pleasure-dome.org.uk
>

 

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Got it...thanks

P.


"Roman Scherzer" <cmpro@1und1.de> wrote in message
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> Paul M schrieb:
>> I usually have the extra's zipped into one file. Ex. cabinets.zip,
>> icons.zip etc...and clrmamepro works great. Now I have all the files
>> unzipped into their respective directories. Is there a way to tell
>> Clrmamepro to search the "unzipped" files to check if I have all the
>> proper files with the updated DAT files?
>
> clrmamepro supports unzipped files by default. You only have to be aware
> of the standard storing scheme:
>
> <rompath>\<setname>.zip for zipped sets
> <rompath>\<setname>\<rom 1 .... rom n> for unzipped sets.
>
> So for example the setname of the controlpanels is (defined in the
> datfile) "cpanel". So you either you store cpanel.zip in a rompath or your
> create a subfolder called "cpanel" in a rompath and store the unzipped png
> files in there. Note: The rompath is the parentfolder of cpanel.
>
>
> Sounds complicated? nah....just follow the upper 2 rules and look at the
> datfile to get the setname
>
> Roman
>

 

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Paul M schrieb:
> The reason is that "full torrents extra's" come none zipped.

no reason....rebuilder zips them optinally when you add new stuff to
your collection....rule #1: don't manually add files, always use the
rebuilder (prefered method) or scanner's fix missing 😉