> > So the question is, Is this the expected behavior of the listsoftware command?
>
> yes, because in some cases we add software list per dumper requests even before the
> corresponding driver is written, or before the system BIOS is dumped, or before the
> code necessary to load the dumped images is created
> thus you end up with software lists which contain valid dumps and document them,
> without being hooked up to any MAME/MESS driver (and thus without being accessible to
> the -listsoftware command)
>
> eventually, all lists will be hooked up to the emulator, but for the time being the
> existence of the xml allows to document all we currently know about those dumps,
> which is better than not having anything at all
>
> also, you can always use the batch scan/rebuild options of cmpro to handle those xml
> files separately (fwiw, personally I prefer to handle *all* software lists via such
> option ;-) )
OK, thanks for responding.
Yes, I have used the batch mode.
I guess all that work in clrmamepro to handle the [SOFT] systems isn't fully utilized yet, due to the issues you point out.
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