Changing Mame Roms With Clrmame Pro

[second exodous]

I'm using MAME GP2X 1.3 and the readme says that Romsets have to be MAME 0.34 final version ones (December 1998). I don't get how ClrMAME does this, there is no 'change version of romsets' anywhere. I looked through the tutorial on the home page but couldn't find it, and it was for an older version anyway.

Anyone know how to do it?

Thanx,
Stan

 

[CRWoody]

I too would love to know how to get this software to work.

Only got Bobble bobble and Jumping.. (bootlegs btw, bubble bobble and rainbow islands) .. to work so far!

 

[raven]

Use the 'rebuilder' function...

 

[second exodous]

Yeah, both the mame gp2x 1.3 readme and the place where I got my roms highly suggested it, but I can't find where to change the romset version.

'Rebulder function.....I thought I did that but I'll try again.

Thanx,
Stan

 

[TelcoLou]

You need to put the clrmame.dat file in the 'datfiles' folder, then select that as your profile when you first start up Clrmamepro. Then select the rebuilder button, choose a source and destination folder, rebuild and voila!

The newly re-built roms should (in theory) work in GP2X MAME.

 

[raven]

Just start cmpro.exe, add the datfile, choose load/update and use the rebuilder function. Only other things you need to do is set the paths for your roms and fixed sets.
Edit: I'm slow

 

[naples39]

You can also just drag your .103 roms into the scan results window, and clrmame will automatically rebuild them according to the .dat loaded (which should be the one that comes with MAME GP2x.

EDIT: Oh, and as a pre-emptive matter, when some of your games such as donkey kong and contra don't work after you do the basic rebuild.... http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showt...21&#entry336521

 

[suj]

Theres a good clrmame guide here

http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/clrmameguide.htm

Also if you have the latest rom, it is not always possible to convert it back to 0.34

 

[second exodous]

Theres a good clrmame guide here

http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/clrmameguide.htm

Also if you have the latest rom, it is not always possible to convert it back to 0.34

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Oh man, the rom versions I have is v0.100, I can't go back?

Oh, wait, I found a torrent that is just v0.34 roms, and the guy that put it up says:

ROMs for MAME 0.34 for GP2X and GP32, not torrentzipped, just regular zipped but should work fine, around 1025 romsets total.

I'll just use that, the torrent I got them from before had like 5,000 roms, and MAME for the GP2X can't even play most of them.

Thanx,
Stan

 

[cbox]

Yeah thats the torrent I started. Not seeding atm because that PC is down and I'm totally confused as to whats wrong.

 

[second exodous]

How many people have got clrmame to work? Does it rename them all in caps in the new folder for a reason? I renamed it all in lower case, the game come up, and it says 'Bank Switch Error' in blue. Then the game comes up with garbled graphics. I don't think clrmame works that well. Is there a program that just does one at a time that works? I can filter through the ones I want then convert them.

Thanx,
Stan

 

[second exodous]

Yeah thats the torrent I started. Not seeding atm because that PC is down and I'm totally confused as to whats wrong.

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When do you think you can re-seed? I'm downloading from that torrent right now but have only gotten 1.76 megs in how many ever hours I've been downloading.

Thanx,
Stan

 

[cbox]

whenever i get that pc back up, tried replacing psu, motherboard twice, cpu, video card, still get nothing but a blank monitor.

 

[second exodous]

whenever i get that pc back up, tried replacing psu, motherboard twice, cpu, video card, still get nothing but a blank monitor.

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Ouch, that sucks. I've had problems like that before, hope you get it fixed.

Thanx,
Stan

 

[cbox]

Well I'm back up, I'll get a new torrent together when I get all the new .35 games checked through clrmame