How do you organise romsets? MAME and (in particular) consoles
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Sorry for the confusion.
@rbaker said in How do you organise romsets? MAME and (in particular) consoles:
You would use newer rom sets with lr-mame2010 or advmame. You cannot use newer roms with lr-mame2003.
In my mind, a 0.111 romset is newer than 0.78, so that's what I gathered from what you wrote.
Damn, communication can be hard!So what you say is that it's the DAT file that makes the romset version?
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@AndersHP said in How do you organise romsets? MAME and (in particular) consoles:
In my mind, a 0.111 romset is newer than 0.78
It is newer, that is my point. What do you mean? You use it to create an older set by using the dat file. That is the purpose of the dat files. At this point I am thinking that you might not understand that some rom files in a set never change over the years but some do. Just because it is a newer set, doesn't mean that you somehow create a newer "0.78" that requires some newer emulator.
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So what you say is that it's the DAT file that makes the romset version?
Yes, you pick a dat file and so long as you have a newer reference set than the one you want, you can use clrmamepro to generate it.
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@rbaker OK, so why use a 0.111 romset? I should just use my brand new FBA 0.2.97.39 romset with the 0.78 DAT file?
There's no reason for anyone to download other than the latest MAME romsets, as long as the DAT files of all the different romsets are available?
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@AndersHP said in How do you organise romsets? MAME and (in particular) consoles:
so why use a 0.111 romset?
I already said that I just happend to have it.
There's no reason for anyone to download other than the latest MAME romsets
Well it's massive. Huge. Much better to download a verified 0.78 set if you have no sets. Some people are not comfortable with clrmame pro. My point is that before I started the download of a 0.78 reference set, I decided to grab the dat file and follow the video. It worked for me. So now, no need to grab the 0.78 set.
I should just use my brand new FBA 0.2.97.39 romset
No because it's FBA, not MAME. I have downloaded that set for use with FBA, in particular Neo-geo and CPS. Yes, there are similarities but MAME supports some games that FBA doesn't and vice versa. It could work but it might not. I certainly wouldn't spend time trying that.
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@rbaker OK, thanks for the clarifications. I will continue what I'm doing, and consider getting a newer set if many ROMS don't work, and still use the 0.78 Lite DAT. So far I've not tested that much but everything has worked, actually. But essentially, the newer, the greater chance of bugfixes or something like that, right? Even though I'm using the 0.78 DAT.
On another note: are you saying that all of your MAME games work? Even those in the compatibility lists on Github that's marked with red? Or have you not tested these?
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if you wanted to downgrade a newer or current mame romset to an ancient mame romset (like mame 0.78) then it probably will give poor results unless you also have the corresponding downgrade pack (or whatever they're called). 13 years or mame changes make things tricky.
IMO if you're rebuilding romsets then you have already messed up. just download the right set. they're very available.
(unless like @rbaker you happen to have a close set like 0.111, then you're maybe ok)
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@dankcushions said in How do you organise romsets? MAME and (in particular) consoles:
IMO if you're rebuilding romsets then you have already messed up. just download the right set. they're very available.
(unless like @rbaker you happen to have a close set like 0.111, then you're maybe ok)
@rbaker said in How do you organise romsets? MAME and (in particular) consoles:
you need a set newer than 0.78 to reliably generate a 0.78 set from it.
So..... ... ? I'll just stick with my initial plan, I guess...
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@AndersHP said in How do you organise romsets? MAME and (in particular) consoles:
you need a set newer than 0.78 to reliably generate a 0.78 set from it.
My knowledge stops with the tutorial video. The commentary from @herb_fargus was helpful in suggesting this.
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