What you can do pretty easily with cmpro is to rebuild sets.which takes evrything still valid no matter how it is named and creates it with correct names and placing. What do you expect when you update from an ancient to a more recent version.you cannot magically create some thousand files whcih you dont have. Re: Fixing 20GB romsets with CLRMame - does it fix things? Is there a file-name list of Forum Member Bob's Top MAME picks? Like Space Invaders was found under 'invaders.zip' when I was looking in the 'S's, or Donkey Kong is actually 'dkong.zip'. Is there any easy way I can get a collection of ROMs that are guaranteed to work with one of these emulators? Or is there any way I can fix the collection I have?Īnd while I'm here, just thought I'd ask, is there any way to sift the good stuff out of the 8,700 games I currently have? I mean I've read a lot of top-arcade-games-of-all-time lists, but its kinda hard to translate that to ROM filenames. Unfortunately all the rom collections available that I can find are the 20GB variety, not the 'Jim's 50 favourite ROMs of all time' type. I just want working ROMs of a small collection of good games. I don't want to have a full, working, complete 20GB romset. My emulator didn't have a datfile kicking around to use. I used the dat file from although they only had a 0.140 datfile, and I'm running 0.139, not sure if that makes a difference. But that is a PAIN in the ASS to do for every single game I want to play.Īnywho, I ran CLRMamePro on my 20GB romset. I read the error message, it told me which file was missing, so I went and downloaded it, and added it to the rom zip, and repeated the process until I had a working ROM. See, thats what I did to get 1941 working. 'Realistically the only solution to any of the problems left in the list is to re-download the rom file' So I found this CLRMamePro Guide that I mistakenly thought was about going through all your mame ROMS and fixing them, until I read this: For example, the game 1942 from my romset works on the 0.37b5 one, but not on the 0.139u one, and 1943 from the same romset works on the 0.139 one, but not on the 0.37 one. Specifically for my Android, I have one emulator that is based on 0.37b5, and one that is based on 0.139u1. Sometimes it works on one emulator, and not the other.

But I like try out new games sometimes, or revist old favorites, but all I have is one of those giant 20GB collections, and it seems like every time I scroll through the list of 6000 games and find one I want to play, my emulator gives me a 'missing rom files' error message. I love playing Galaga and Qix on my phone. I've used MAME on my computer, and on my Android phone. Fixing 20GB romsets with CLRMame - does it fix things?

Romset 0.139 mame