Eric, an opinion please...

Post by **Wanderer** » Tue May 16, 2006 10:49 am

Hi all.

In the latest mame release (v0.106), there is an item - astorm.zip - which contains a broken rom (red-marked with an X) named "317-????.key". When RC tries to create it, it of course fails.

There are two ways to go here:

1. Leave it as it is. Its a stupid thing to have ?'s in a filename so it can be considered a datfile error. RC handles it as it does now: just displays a "can't fix" error message.

2. RC recognizes that a strange rom filename exists in the zip file so it either
- a. Converts all invalid characters to spaces or some other valid character and creates the rom file.
- b. Does not try to create the misnamed rom file and just marks the whole zip green (if the rest of the zip has no problems - like in this case).

Although i assume most of us would go with option 1

, i'm just presenting this just in case option 2 is not too difficult to implement.

Eric, any comments?

Post by **RomCenter** » Thu May 18, 2006 7:52 am

Hi Wanderer.

This is a thing I could add later in version 3.0. But I won't add it in current version, as I prefer to spend my time on the new version.

Thank you for pointing these little problems with new mame version. I don't even have time to install and try these new releases

(don't even think of playing anything....)

Post by **Wanderer** » Thu May 18, 2006 8:49 am

RomCenter wrote:I don't even have time to install and try these new releases (don't even think of playing anything....)

Yes, i know what you mean. I have the same problem too. These days, i just download stuff and hope later on, i'll have the time to check them out. Perhaps when i retire!

Post by **Hakkk** » Thu May 18, 2006 8:56 am

Post by **Wanderer** » Thu May 18, 2006 8:59 am

Hakkk wrote: ^_^

Yup, that's what i'm talking about. What were they thinking anyway?

Post by **Hakkk** » Thu May 18, 2006 9:01 am

BTW, this dummy file is created as "317-----.key" by clrmame pro, like Wanderer said in his opinion 2-a.

Post by **Wanderer** » Thu May 18, 2006 9:10 am

Hakkk wrote:BTW, this dummy file is created as "317-----.key" by clrmame pro, like Wanderer said in his opinion 2-a.

I guess we'll have to blame the mame dev team for setting that name. If Eric has it in mind and remembers to put it in RC3, that would be fine. For now, we'll just have to stay with one red rom in mame v0.106. Hopefully, in the next mame version, the mame devel team will have a more proper name for this file.

Post by **Hakkk** » Thu May 18, 2006 9:17 am

I guess we'll have to blame the mame dev team for setting that name. If Eric has it in mind and remembers to put it in RC3, that would be fine. For now, we'll just have to stay with one red rom in mame v0.106. Hopefully, in the next mame version, the mame devel team will have a more proper name for this file.

No one red rom, if you want. You can modify that file name by yourself. I posted that picture to show it possible.

Post by **Wanderer** » Thu May 18, 2006 9:22 am

Hakkk wrote:No one red rom, if you want. You can modify that file name by yourself. I posted that picture to show it possible.

Yes, i know. I prefer to stay with the original dat file and the original filename though. I expect it to be fixed in v0.106-1 or perhaps v0.107.

Post by **Ad_Enuff** » Thu May 18, 2006 2:06 pm

Is it something Logiqx can fix in his DATUTIL?

Has someone asked him?

Post by **Wanderer** » Thu May 18, 2006 3:06 pm

Ad_Enuff wrote:Is it something Logiqx can fix in his DATUTIL?

Has someone asked him?

I don't think it's that hard.

1. Create mame v0.106 datafile from RC
2. Open it with a text editor
3. Search for "???"
4. Replace it with whatever you like
5. Save the dat file.

That's it.