How do you switch to Merge mode?

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How do you switch to Merge mode?

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I am new to RC, someone suggested it for combining roms with the same name (revisions, beta, etc). I have loaded the Data file and my roms and done fixes to rename stuff and get it all Green, however now I want to merge but the merge options are greyed out in the Preferences menu...how can I switch?

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Which version of romcenter ?
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3.x because 4.x crashed for me when I loaded my rom folders for some reason.

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NewYears1978 wrote:3.x because 4.x crashed for me when I loaded my rom folders for some reason.
For clarification, when I run 4.0 and load my RC dat file, it says the dat file is incorrect type (but it loaded in 3.0 fine)

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NewYears1978 wrote:3.x because 4.x crashed for me when I loaded my rom folders for some reason.
Er, I mean it crashed when I loaded the data file it says invalid datafile.

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NewYears1978 wrote:For clarification, when I run 4.0 and load my RC dat file, it says the dat file is incorrect type (but it loaded in 3.0 fine)
Hi there and welcome to the forum.

Try this thread, it may be helpful.

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Re: How do you switch to Merge mode?

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Wanderer wrote:
NewYears1978 wrote:For clarification, when I run 4.0 and load my RC dat file, it says the dat file is incorrect type (but it loaded in 3.0 fine)
Hi there and welcome to the forum.

Try this thread, it may be helpful.
Thanks I will try that after work tonight :)

Sorry for double post above, I didn't realize my post went into moderation and thought it had just not sent so I Posted twice..woops.

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NewYears1978 wrote:Sorry for double post above, I didn't realize my post went into moderation and thought it had just not sent so I Posted twice..woops.
No problem. From now on (or maybe you need a couple more posts, i don't remember) you'll be able to post directly, without moderation. :)

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Re: How do you switch to Merge mode?

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Wanderer wrote:
NewYears1978 wrote:Sorry for double post above, I didn't realize my post went into moderation and thought it had just not sent so I Posted twice..woops.
No problem. From now on (or maybe you need a couple more posts, i don't remember) you'll be able to post directly, without moderation. :)
Cool :) No worries - trying your approach now I will let you know how it works!

Okay I am confused, all this is new to me..the part about mame based EXE I have no clue what that is. I am working with SNES files. (I think I figured it out, standby, lol)

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Can you upload the dat you use ? I want to give a try with rc4.
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Re: How do you switch to Merge mode?

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RomCenter wrote:Can you upload the dat you use ? I want to give a try with rc4.
Sorry for slow reply, been away for a couple days.

I can't remember which dat file it was now, all the ones I was trying were from dat-o-matic, but someone has told me to use datfiles from Hyperlist instead for best results..but I am still having errors in RC4 :\

Might have to stick to RC3 for now. (posted a thread about my error already in RC4 support)

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Re: How do you switch to Merge mode?

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No intro still delivers dat in old rc2 format. It is not supported yet in rc4. I will add that in next version.
Maybe that's the pb.
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