Thank you, that works perfectly!

 - Nathan

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Mario J. Barch�in Molina wrote:

> El Dom 07 Abr 2002 17:23, escribi�:
> > Does anyone know how to find out what other ROMs a given ROM
> > requires? For instance, pacman requires puckman but I don't know how
> > one finds this information out.  If you run -verifyroms on a
> > directory w/ only pacman.zip you will find that it says it's
> > 'incorrect' but I can't find a way to get xmame or anything to tell
> > me that I need puckman.zip.
> >
> > I'd like to be able to take a directory and not only verify if the
> > roms are working (simple - just run xmame.x11 -rompath ./
> > -verifyroms) but I want to it say "hey, you need ROM_A to be able to
> > run ROM_X".
> >
> > This has to be possible as mame obviously knows when it opens pacman
> > to look in puckman (a simple renaming of the puckman.zip archive will
> > cause mame be unable to find the puckman ROMs).
>
> if you run "xmame -li", you'll see a lot of entries like this,one for
> each game and resource (like neogeo BIOS):
>
> game (
>         name pacman
>         description "Pac-Man (Midway)"
>         year 1980
>         manufacturer "[Namco] (Midway license)"
>         cloneof puckman
>         romof puckman
>         rom ( name pacman.6e size 4096 crc c1e6ab10 region cpu1 offs 0 )
>         rom ( name pacman.6f size 4096 crc 1a6fb2d4 region cpu1 offs
>         ......
>         dipswitch ( name "Speedup Cheat" )
>         driver ( status good color good sound good palettesize 16 blit
>                  plain )
> )
>
> Look at the field "romof puckman". This is the info you're looking for.
>
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