{"id":23,"date":"2002-02-19T15:17:13","date_gmt":"2002-02-19T20:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pealefamily.net\/tech\/arcade\/?p=23"},"modified":"2008-11-25T12:54:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T17:54:52","slug":"check-your-work-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Check your work first!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just did a baaaaaad thing.  Can I stress any more the importance of the work &#8216;backup?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I was using the program <a target=_top href=\"http:\/\/www.mameworld.net\/clrmame\/\">clrmame<\/a> which is supposed<br \/>\nto check your ROMs and tell you what you&#8217;re missing, what has changed since the last release, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I set it to go, and it kept coming up with bad ROMs.  I don&#8217;t know why, since I play them quite often, with no problems.<\/p>\n<p>So, I go to see what&#8217;s happened, and MAME reports that I have no ROMs available!  Oh no!<\/p>\n<p>I delete the ROMs &#8211; all 968 megs of them *sniff*.  I get a couple off an FTP site I know of, and start MAME again.  Nothing.  Uh oh.<\/p>\n<p>Redownloading MAME again (I use the Windows version to test) I find the new ROMs where they should be.  Something tells me I should have tried that first.  Oh well, live and learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just did a baaaaaad thing. Can I stress any more the importance of the work &#8216;backup?&#8217; I was using the program clrmame which is supposed to check your ROMs and tell you what you&#8217;re missing, what has changed since the last release, etc. I set it to go, and it kept coming up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}