> it's called pro because it's for professionals or people who like to spend 5 min to > follow a tutorial. I boycott photoshop because it takes hours to draw a circle doesnt > it? > > No really...you don't to manually create a dat. Yes, you need some basic knowledge > about rom storing and terms like "merging", parent/clone relationships, biossets and > devices. > > 1) Profiler, creates you a database based on your MAME binary (if prompts appear, > 'answer yes to all') > 2) Settings, drag'n drop or import your rompaths > 3) Scanner, hit the scan button > > That's it. With this procedure it tells you what is wrong with your collection > without touching it. Then you can enable the fix options (1 click) and do the > fixing...
Hahahahah. A lot of good humor here. I was thinking I might earn a prompt ban, simply for posting here instead of the clrmpro forums.
A-nyways. I haven't used it for recent MAME, only for older versions, mostly .69 or .37 . I have in most cases tried to use MAME32, but I think I tried [a fresh copy of] baseline, and had the same issue. So I asked somewhere else about it, and they said to manually create a DAT. I added it, and that allowed my profile to be loaded.
I rebuilt (the focus here is on stunrun), but they still didn't work. I think I had all the sets for that version, but I was still getting roms missing errors when loading the game. So maybe that was it. But it was still involved.
I've rebuilt sets over the years, and had issues, but I think have succeeded. This time was just a nightmare. I'll try again, and see what happens.
((Current MAME should be handled like torrent files are handled, with the addition of reading an ini. So, you press 'update', and it does only your sets.))
Consider it high comedy....sincere tragedy....whatever...don't take it personally.
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