For those of you wondering whether or not there was going to be a followup to the experimental Full MAME roms flood that was trialed last full version release, you're in luck there is. You can view the update info & download the torrent from the following url:- My thanks to MisterWhite for taking on the Instructions page making it look good (Web Design was never my strong suit) and also strath and everyone on #romtorrent for their support. Petr1fied alt.binaries.emulators.mame FAQ Gaza, 11:32 น.

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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:32:28 +0100, 'Gaza' wrote the following in alt.games.mame: >How large is the update from 87-88? I'm 40% through downloading 87 is it >worth going to 88 yet as not many will have downloaded? > >Gareth > Both torrents are roughly the same size. Sfish2.bin was removed from mame and this file was in excess of 500Mb, on the flipside about 500-600Mb of new roms were added to MAME since v0.77 so the difference in overall size is very slight.

I have no idea how much percentage you would lose if you switched over to the new torrent whilst incomplete on the old one, that is a risk I leave to you. If you choose to do so I would recommend backing up what you have already managed to get and starting the new torrent on the backup. If all looks good upon starting the new torrent you're probably better off migrating to the new one. Like I said I can't predict what would happen if you attempted this so it's entirely up to you. Petr1fied alt.binaries.emulators.mame FAQ DJSpeedy, 13:59 น. On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:59:38 GMT, 'DJSpeedy' wrote the following in alt.games.mame: >0.87u1 added 512megs of new stuff. >0.87u3 changed sfish2 from a bin to a CHD so that accounts for most of the >other 500mb chunk.:-) > Only roms are included in the torrent so with the removal of sfish2.bin and the addition of more or less the same amount of data in new roms, the overall size difference is only 19Mb.

MAME v0.87 ROMS Torrent = 10258 MB MAME v0.88 ROMS Torrent = 10274 MB Petr1fied alt.binaries.emulators.mame FAQ Gaza, 15:29 น. On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:55:48 +0100, Petr1fied wrote: >On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:32:28 +0100, 'Gaza' > wrote the following in >alt.games.mame: > >>How large is the update from 87-88? I'm 40% through downloading 87 is it >>worth going to 88 yet as not many will have downloaded?

>> >>Gareth >> > >Both torrents are roughly the same size. > >sfish2.bin was removed from mame and this file was in excess of 500Mb, >on the flipside about 500-600Mb of new roms were added to MAME since >v0.77 so the difference in overall size is very slight. > >I have no idea how much percentage you would lose if you switched over >to the new torrent whilst incomplete on the old one, that is a risk I >Blackout method man and redman zip. leave to you.

If you choose to do so I would recommend backing up what >you have already managed to get and starting the new torrent on the >backup. I've taken the risk. Started from full mame 0.87, moved away sfish2.bin. Loaded the mame 0.88.torrent file in my torrent client (Torrentstorm) After a slow/long check it finished up at 91,26%. It means i've to download about 900MB to complete again the set. I think it's a lot for a 500MB update.

Other opinions/experiences?? Petr1fied, 16:44 น. On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:15:13 GMT, zaker wrote the following in alt.games.mame: >I've taken the risk. >Started from full mame 0.87, moved away sfish2.bin.

>loaded the mame 0.88.torrent file in my torrent client (Torrentstorm) >After a slow/long check it finished up at 91,26%. > >It means i've to download about 900MB to complete again the set. >i think it's a lot for a 500MB update. > >other opinions/experiences?? The thing is it is not really a 500Mb update, although 500Mb of new roms were added a fair few sets have been also been affected by rom renames or roms moved to other sets which is common with MAME Updates.

Changes like this will result in a change of the file hash as it will be different when the set is MAMEzipped again this can mean you are downloading sets which could be exactly the same but the internal rom names are different. Some of this can be resolved by Running a Scan on the romset with the current binary and allowing ClrMamePro to do the rom renames etc. Then running MAMEzip on just the roms with a changed external date stamp. Of course for this to work you have to make sure ClrMamePro changes the datestamp of the zip file which was the primary reason for the Settings I specified in the Settings Menu. I was meaning to add this information to the tutorial but I didn't think the differences would be as much as 400Mb.