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ambhai
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Re: older rom names from mame for coding Auding in my frontend
09/17/07 07:04 PM



> They don't check for file names, they check for the CRC codes, which can be read
> instantly from ZIP files. Whenever the files are in the correct ZIP, and they have
> the correct CRCs, names inside the ZIP don't matter. For unzipped files, filename
> does matter, and I guess that MAME reads them to calculate the CRC.
>
> Maybe what EmuLoader is showing is "what the name should be" vs. "what the name is"
> and that's why you see two filenames. Have you tried to rename the valid file with
> the wrong filename to something totally different to see how EmuLoader behaves?
>
> If you're not making a ROM management tool, then you should focus on detect the files
> in the same way MAME does, and that means looking into the MAME source to see, for
> example, in which order does MAME look for zipped/unzipped files.

Thanks very much. I did renaming files, and modifing binary data of files. You are right, emuloader uses CRC to match files and display current and database names.







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* older rom names from mame for coding Auding in my frontend ambhai 09/17/07 11:55 AM
. * Re: older rom names from mame for coding Auding in my frontend PiModerator  09/17/07 01:08 PM
. * Re: older rom names from mame for coding Auding in my frontend ambhai  09/17/07 07:04 PM

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