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Basic question

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I have a complete mame 0.95 set and want to make Nebula 2.24 play all the roms it should (cps1/2, ng etc).

So what exactly do I do with the RomCenter/CMPro dat files?

Because from what I understand don't those modify/rename certain files or whatever? I don't want to mess up my mame compatibilty, I want to force Nebula to recognize the newer changes though.

So I am confused about these dat files and what to do with them.
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Post by Logiqx »

Download the Nebula data file and use one of the supplements in the ZIP (choose the one that matches your MAME set type).
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i still do not understand the purpose of the dat file or what it does. am i going to screw up my perfect fully-merged mame set by using these? because like i said if nebula won't work with the mame roms completely then what does the dat file do?

wouldn't it be better to have a collection of updated mame compliant nebula dat files to use in nebula instead of using a utility to change all your roms and then break mame compatibility?

i don't know what this is or understand it's purpose.
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The purpose of the supplement is to create a second directory in addition to the MAME ROMs:

Dir 1 = MAME ROMs (unchanged)
Dir 2 = Nebula Supplement (only 270MB)

By using Dir 1 and Dir 2 Nebula can run any game without a problem.
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