roms-manager is a simple tool to scan arcade romset .dat and gamelist.xml files.

Why?

clrmamepro is complicated to use, I want something simple, I do not care about rebuilding romsets, I simply want the roms I already have to work on my system by simply hidding the incompatible ones.

The main usecase is with RetroPie/Recalbox when using mame/fbneo/neogeo (and optionanly enabling the arcade virtual system), roms-manager is used to hide incompatible games (either bad roms or different screen aspect-ratio / buttons layout) and duplicates games so you end up with only a clean list of games.

Install

Latest release

Go to the release page and grab the binary.

Development build

Install golang on your machine and then go get github.com/vrgl117-games/roms-manager

How to use

roms-manager has two mains functions

Scan

scan takes a database file (either .dat or a Mame .xml) and an EmulationStation gameslist.xml file and an optional catver.ini file.

Features:

• hide incompatible games (wrong rom size, wrong CRC)
• Only keep on games amongst an original and it's a clone(s)
• hide games using a list of keywords (bootlegs, hacks, etc...)
• if present in the database file, hide games with the incorrect aspect ratio or button layout
• support catver.ini file to hide games based on category (mature by default)

See roms-manager scan --help for the list of flags.

Hide-Duplicates

hide-duplicates takes a list of gameslist.xml files.

Feature:

• hide games already present in other gameslist.xml file.

TODO

• download .dat files on the fly