Well...Nothing special here. You can find the current ClrMamePro version here (versionnumber can differ from the picture below). And my name....and you can see that this program is freeware. If you want to know more you should take a look at the Copyright/Contact section of this documentation. Click the various buttons to email me, read the documentation or to go to my homepage. If nothing happens when you click on these buttons, check if your browser and mailprogram are set to be the default programs for such operations
You can also change the buttonbar in the mainwindow here. Simply right-click to change it.
Drop a file in the window and ClrMamePro tells you its size, CRC32 and MD5. Don't forget that this can take a while.
Here you can select when ClrMamePro should look for updates at www.clrmame.com. NO DATA FROM YOUR COMPUTER WILL BE SENT ! CLRMAMEPRO ONLY RECEIVES UPDATE FILES AND A VERSIONFILE. ClrmamePro will do the check on startup. ClrMamePro will use the included "update.exe (or update.dll)" to do that.
With Dir2Dat you can create a DatFile based on files which are stored on your harddisk. After using Dir2Dat you should edit the DatFile with a common texteditor e.g. to add header information, etc.
It's rather easy to use. Point to a Source-Folder where the files are stored which should be used for the DatFile and give a DatFilename. Click on Create, ClrMamePro scans the files and builds a datfile for you.
Dir2Dat scans like this:
The set-name will be copied from the foldername or from the zipfilename. Descriptionstrings will be copied from that as well and Manufacturerstrings are kept empty. But you can use the Match tagdata option to fill these automatically.
The Options:
Author, Name, Description and Versionstrings which will later be displayed in the profiler
With these options you can disable the usage of "zip files" (forcezipping unzip) and you can also force a mergemode (e.g. if the emulator doesn't support merging, you should set the "forcemerging none" option).
All Setnames, romnames are made lowercase.
Recursively scan the sourcefolder.
If the scan finds a non-zipped-file it normally puts it in the set which has the name of the current folder. By enabling this option you can put each of such files in an own set. If the files only differ by their extensions, they will all be put in the same set.
A MD5 checksum is calculated for all entries and will be stored in the DatFile as well, if this option is enabled.
Adds a year entry to the setentries. You can fill them automatically with the "match tagdata" option.
(Empty) manufacturer strings are added to the setentries. You can fill them automatically with the next option.
If this option is disabled, Dir2Dat will copy the setname to the description string and will use an empty manufacturer string. By enabling, Dir2Dat checks the found setname with the currently loaded data and if it finds a match, it will use the stored Description and Manufacturer and Year string from that loaded data. For example: You want to create a MAME artwork datfile. You've loaded your normal MAME profile, started Dir2Dat and now ClrMamePro finds a set in the artworks folder, matches that name with the MAME data and automatically adds the correct description and manufacturer strings.
Normally Dir2Dat doesn't add BIOS Set information to the DatFiles. By enabling this option you will add the currently used BIOS information as resource tags. For example if you've loaded a MAME engine, neogeo, cvs, pgm, etc. are added. If nothing is loaded, nothing is added.
Push the button to start the Scan/DatFile creation.
That's the folder you want to scan. All found files should be put to the DatFile.
That's the name of the datfile which should be created.