How do you organise romsets? MAME and (in particular) consoles

[AndersHP]

@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?

[dankcushions]

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)

[Rion]

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[AndersHP]

@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...

[rbaker]

@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.