What a special day today....20 years ago...yes twenty years...the very first version of clrmame was released. Back then it was a win32 commandline tool. 1999 cmwin, a first windows ui version was released and finally in 2000 clrmamepro came out. In 1997 MAME had no zip support, no merging and actually not even crc32 was used for hashing...good old times ;-) And today...look at that beauty of emulator. What a success, what a huge amount of emulated sets. Times are changing, I've tried to update cmpro as good as possible to keep track of the changes made in MAME. I'd like to thank all the users who supported me over the years...some of them from the beginning till today. Without you, I would have stopped cmpro a long time ago. So....keep me busy. Thanks again. And yeah...here's the latest version 4.033.

Since the homepage is now https, you need to download this update manually. The updater will work again once you have 4.033 installed

wow...time flies...finally I found a little time to release clrmamepro 4.032. Generally some updates for the profiler/batcher. Thanks for all the testers/supporters.

Clrmamepro 4.031c released. SampleOnly-Set for upcoming MAME.

Merry XMas and a happy, healthy, successful and peaceful 2017!

Clrmamepro 4.031b released. Stats count fix and something for latest MAME.

Clrmamepro 4.031a released. Quick fix for rebuild matching count which was not included in 4.031.

Clrmamepro 4.031 released. Mainly fixes for the softwarelist combined mode.

Clrmamepro 4.030a released. Fixing the scanner speed regression on crc32 hash collision sets.

Clrmamepro 4.030 released. An important update for next MAME version which will have some multiple crc32 hash collisions within the same set...pretty rare thing but cmpro takes care. Also huge thanks to Shoegazr who did endless testing on Linux helping me to find a weird directory walk issue on ext4 formatted drives.

Clrmamepro 4.029b released. Compile and link update.

Clrmamepro 4.029a released. Removed possible merger security issue.

Updated the deflopt link/version.

Clrmamepro 4.029 released. Mainly some batcher cleanup.

Back by public demand...the ButtonBars section.

Back by public demand...the ZipMax section.

And thanks to Stiletto, a pretty big cmpro history list was added, too.

Clrmamepro 4.028 released. Just some fixes/addons for 4.027.

Clrmamepro 4.027 released. Happy New Year..cough cough...mostly core updates.

Clrmamepro 4.026 released. Mainly fixed a possible crash during hash generation.

Clrmamepro 4.025 released. Some general fixes and updates for users with UHD screens.

Clrmamepro 4.024 released. Updated the packer libraries and fixed a general zip64 bug.

Clrmamepro 4.023 released. A bunch of fixes mainly for overseen unneeded chds and some new setinformation feature.

Clrmamepro 4.022 released. A bunch of fixes and started to use a new building platform. 32bit version will be still usable on Windows XP.

A yes...and a small cleanup of the homepage...

clrmamepro is totally free and you don't have to donate anything. Since a lot people asked me how they can donate something, I added a PayPal account and an Amazon Wishlist.

Amazon Wishlist. Check out amazon.de wishlist and search for "Roman Scherzer". There are multiple search results. Select the one representing: Roman Scherzer, Bonn, Germany / Deutschland, ClrMame / ClrMamePro

Apple iTunes gifts/coupon codes are always welcome, too :)

Thanks a lot for all kind of donations. Your support is highly appreciated.

Here you can download the latest version of clrmamepro.

4.033

• fixed: xml parser to handle > character within an xml attribute correctly
• fixed: wrong "missing but fixable" message (mainly chd) when set check is disabled which covers the actual message
• fixed: dir2dat archives with folders produce wrong output
• fixed: stats count of missing roms for clone sets which only consist of parent roms (and chds)
• fixed: stats count of missing chds in case set check is disabled
• fixed: fixmissing skips the set with the missing file itself for checking for a possible match and might miss a possible fix (pretty rare that a set holds identical files, but e.g. MAME's 188 "pippin" does)
• misc: use MoveFile instead of CopyFile also for disabled remove-rebuilt-source when possible
• misc: drag'n drop operations now work when you use "run as admininistrator" to run cmpro in an UAC protected folder
• misc: changed softwarelist import to always import all and filter specific afterwards. Solves problem where MAME does not print out data for some.
• misc: remove possible empty setfolder when a chdfile is moved
• misc: cmpro.ini setting Adv_AvoidPCSleep=on can be used to avoid PC switching to hibernate/sleep mode during scan/merge/rebuild/dir2dat operations (default = on, i.e. it won't switch)
• misc: updated to rar 5.50

If you install cmpro to a protected folder like C:\program files\, you have to set the compatibility properties of cmpro.exe to 'run this program as administrator' to work correctly or you have to disable UAC. In other folders it should work fine without setting this property and without the need of disabling UAC.

If you got problems with the main window, set the option 'Adv_HideWindow = off' in cmpro.ini. In case you don't have a cmpro.ini yet, create one with the following two lines:
[CMPRO SETTINGS]
Adv_HideWindow = off

Update your OS!

clrmamepro 4.x documentation is currently under complete rewrite....

clrmamepro 3.x documentation can be found here

In the meantime tutorials might help you:

• up2date Italian Guide
• French Tutorial
• English Tutorial
• German Tutorial
• Italian Tutorial

• fixed: dir2dat creates subfolders for found filenames with `. Now it translates it to ' (as the parser does anyway)
• fixed: unique softwarelist folder check can fail and only show an empty list instead of details
• fixed: batcher's "for rompath naming use "dafilefolder" created double foldernames when using dats with subfolders
• fixed: batcher's "for rompath naming use "datfile name tag" or "datfile file" was not working
• fixed: batcher's "for default naming use" options does not use the global profiler setting anymore
• fixed: don't list existing parent roms in completely missing clones' output
• fixed: profiler hides empty folders
• fixed: wrong bios set assignment in non rom-merge-parse-mode for some sets which use merge tags to link to bios roms
• fixed: profiler context menu tree delete folder switched to 'delete profile' when a profile in list view was selected
• fixed: problem with memoryfile exceptions when working with enabled headers
• added: batcher option to skip scan run when a batch rebuild did not create any files
• misc: updated fuzzy set name check routine (which is rarely used though) giving more robust results
• misc: better profiler tree display when delete/reset/clean cache on a folder or move profile (not jumping to root and collapsing the tree)
• misc: show red/green dot profiler tree folder icons when profiles contain at least one red or only green items
• misc: updated to zip archive: 4.6.4

• fixed: falsely create sampleOnly sets from empty sets (MAME >.180 genpin issue)

• fixed: statistic count values for sets which do not really exist (e.g. sets with only biosroms and nodumps/samples)
• fixed: fix test for unneeded rom/detecting not separated biosrom checks interfear and you need a 2nd scan to get rid of it (MAME .178 decoccass v0a-.7e issue)

• fixed: rebuilder matched files counter

• fixed: various softwarelist/standard mix problems with double set names - chd name matching problem which came back with 4.030 fix for unneeded chds - identifying wrong set leading to all kind of sideeffects like prompts to rename sets or skipping wrong placed sets - skipping detection of a missing set when identical sets are shared in different sysdefpaths - reporting wrong "wrong sysdefpath" warnings when 100% identical sets are shared in sysdefpaths or for clones where parent's set name was identical in different sysdefpaths or when a set was renamed and old name is now used in a different sysdefpath
• misc: remember dir2dat setting for datfile format
• misc: updated unrar dll to 5.40.100.2100
• misc: updated 7z dll/sdk to 16.04

• fixed: scanner speed regression on crc32 collision sets

4.030

• added: supporting crc32 collisions within sets (equal crc32, different sha1/md5)
• added: missing/total chds column for profiler and htmlReport
• fixed: having set folders and archives can create wrong missing roms messages (mainly on Linux/ext4)
• fixed: unneeded chds are not showing up if nothing of the set exists
• fixed: MAME -listxml output was not taking changed temporary folder into account
• misc: slight rebuilder speed update for rebuilding separated bios files
• misc: updated unrar dll to 5.40.4
• misc: compiled with VS Studio 2015 Update 3

• misc: linked with notelemetry.obj
• misc: updated unrar dll to 5.40.2
• misc: updated to 7z sdk/dll 16.02

• misc merger: "clean sets" option gets disabled when "move sets to" option is used. Otherwise it's too risky to accidently wipe out sets when doing multiple runs.
• misc: compiled with VS Studio 2015 Update 2

• fixed: software list export has a space at the end of the prolog
• fixed: rare rebuild name-case-pick problem when rebuilding parent/clone sets where the clone uses different case in naming of the parent files
• fixed: %H does not match all chd-only ones
• added: setinfo lists referenced device roms in set file list
• added: settings->compressor->chdman option setting to hide console window during verify process
• added: batcher scanner option to include/exclude chd decompress in deep modes
• added: batcher scanner option to disable deep (sha1/md5/full decompress) scan
• misc: reorganized batcher prop pages (mainly used radio buttons for some options)
• misc: updated unrar dll to 5.31

• misc: dir2dat, software exports adds offset=0
• misc: dir2dat, prevent system sleep mode
• misc: dir2dat, add manufacturer from folder also works for non-single-set mode
• misc: dir2dat, when addYear/addManufacturer is used, tags get initialized with "????" (unless they get a value assigned by other options)
• fixed: setinfo tree disappears when no devices or mechanicals are used

• misc: 32bit version still runs on SSE1 processors
• misc: compiled with VS Studio 2015 Update 1
• misc: updated to unrar lib/sdk 5.31.1 and 7z lib/sdk to 15.14
• misc: prevent system sleep mode for scan, rebuild, merge tasks
• misc: the minimum value for rebuilder option to skip folder after X skipped files is now 1
• added: setinfo tree lists empty sets only on request (context menu) and empty tree branches are removed
• misc: setinfo tree gets reendered on actions (apply, invert, etc) when show enabled/disabled is used
• added: %r=1, %P=1, %H=1 variable (has roms, is sample-only set, is chd-only set)
• misc: select sets variables %h,%p,%M,%B,%I,%r,%P,%H also supports =0 now (e.g. %h=1 has chds; %h=0 hasn't chds)
• removed: cmpro.ini switch Adv_DatFormatXML, Export format (from setinfo) can now be switched in dir2dat
• added: dir2dat can export in softwarelist format (pretty preliminary but a start)
• added: dir2dat option add manufacturer -> from folder, which takes the current folder name as manufacturer/publisher (in single set mode only)
• hint: if you don't collect chds/samples and don't want cmpro to moan about missing sets, you can use %H=1;%P=1 (Apply, Invert, check 'initial invert' checkbox) to disable chd-only and sample-only sets

• fixed: memory corruption and random crash during sethash generation
• fixed: disabled softwarelists with non-unique assigned paths could lead to wrong missing set messages
• added: set information copy2clipboard context menu to generate set lists
• misc: updated 7z library and sdk to 15.09

• misc: better support for UHD screens (button bar, statistic window output, initial default size of sizeable windows)
• misc: updated unrar library 5.30.5
• misc: updated 7z library and sdk to 15.08
• fixed: crash when going from profiler create to scanner setinfo
• fixed: exception when loading of 7z dll failed
• fixed: evil romcheck skip when chds of the set are missing and the archive is stored in the same path
• fixed: re-fixed wrong placed/unneeded chd detection problem when setnames share the same name across software lists
• fixed: showing wrong bad chd checksum messages when setnames share the same name across software lists and one chd is missing
• fixed: unneeded set check marks some sets as unneeded when you have a pretty uncommon setup where chds in the dat are listed as roms with subfolders

• fixed: cmpro still shows a wrong checksum message for unneeded chds even after removing them
• fixed: general 32bit cut down issue when calculating size/checksums of files in zip64 archives
• misc: xml datfiles with "machine" elements instead of game elements are parsed, too
• misc: xml datfile export (either setinformation or dir2dat) uses "machine" as set element (cmpro.ini Adv_SetElementXML value holds the value in case you want to change it to "game")
• misc: updated zipclass library to 4.6.2
• misc: updated unrar library 5.30.4
• misc: updated 7z library and sdk to 15.07
• misc: ah yeah, if you don't know already, zip64 format now is officially supported

• fixed: cmpro did not mark old chd files (replaced with identical named but different checksum files) as unneeded
• fixed: cmpro oversees some unneeded chds (dupe) chds in sysdef paths when the correct chd is also present (quizard sets)
• fixed: cmpro doesn't warn about some unpacked rom files within chd subfolders if a rom archive also exists
• added: setinformation "initial invert" option, which inverts your selection on database load (so you need to manually hit the invert button)

• misc: new compiler (VS2015) under Windows 10 Pro
• misc: 7z/rar warnings are now shown in the warning window, not as a messagebox anymore which you have to click
• misc: profiler move/add datfiles overwrite prompts support yes/no to all
• fixed: wrong "wrong case" set message when a chd is missing
• fixed: 7z/rar detection of obsolete folders fails in some cases
• fixed: datfile nodump flag gets ignored in case of an additional size=0 entry
• fixed: nodump without any size entry were not imported
• fixed: wrong rar bad crc message when deleting full archives

• fixed: possible crash with corrupt settings file
• fixed: rare issue where a sample parent set with no samples for its own and multi-softwarelist support is marked as unneeded
• fixed: possible crash on cmpro start on read-only device or full device
• fixed: structural issues and possible crash when using dats with releases and run into double name issues
• fixed: double name check when using releases
• fixed: some dialogs don't use "MS Sans Serif" as font...
• fixed: adjusted some warning messages to use [SOFT] instead of [LIST]
• fixed: setinformation "hide parent" does not work for listed disks
• fixed: unpacked set with chds can be falsely detected as misplaced
• fixed: rare typo based bug in checking unneeded sets/chds
• fixed: hashcollision sets with nodumps can create circular fix-unneeded/fix-missing scenarios
• misc: better unneeded detection of chds within an identical setnames relation (softwarelists/Non-Software List)
• misc: better wrong sysdefpath detection of chds within an identical setnames relation (softwarelists/Non-Software List)
• added: automatically detect mame and mess as xml root elements
• added: supporting biossets with samples (and sampleof) elements

Even more history can be found here.