> also a quick question.Im assuming that you cannot set 2 art paths in mame.ini,1 for > regular artwork & the other for other artwork and have them both as available options > at the same time?
if for "as available options at the same time" you mean that you can choose at runtime either a regular artwork or one of the 'other' pack, then no. the first zipfile that gets found in one of the paths gets loaded.
the closest thing you can do is: 1. manually edit the layout file inside the zip to make the 'other' arts available and then merge the two zipfiles 2. use command line (or a .bat script) to launch the emulator using the artpath you want
the former implies that you cannot use MrDo's datfile to rebuild the artworks you modified (because of the additional files and the modified .lay file) the latter implies that you cannot switch between regular arts and other arts without exiting from MAME and re-entering