News

2025-10-29

Hell freezes over...there is an update to old clrmamepro with an xml parser fix and two other ones related to unneeded samples and wrong placed device roms.

2025-10-16

clrmameUI 0.5.2 is out. Finally fixing a long weird bug where files suddenly appear in rom/sample/last used dir, so get it here. Read more. Changes also mentioned on the forum.

2025-10-08

clrmameUI 0.5.1 is out. Fixed some rebuilder and 7z core issues and added some minor UI functionality, so get it here. Read more. Changes also mentioned on the forum.

2025-09-06

clrmameUI 0.5 is out. Fixed some internal threading issues which might caused crashes and mainly worked on some UI stuff. No profiler yet, sorry, anyhow, get it here. Read more. Changes also mentioned on the forum.

2025-04-20

clrmameUI 0.4 is out with zstd support in zips, chd version checking and various fixes, get it here

2025-03-03

2025-02-26

2025-01-20

clrmame 0.2 released

Happy New Year! I've spent some time on core improvements, mainly new threading and handling edge cases (e.g. dats with thousands of dupes). Read more. Changes also mentioned on the forum.

You want to donate...

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.

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

Downloads

Files

Here you can download the latest version of the new clrmame.

clrmame 0.5.2 (zip) (5.12mb)

Here you can download the latest version of (old) clrmamepro.

clrmamepro 32bit 4.050 (zip) (5526kb) clrmamepro 32bit 4.050 (exe) (3981kb)
clrmamepro 64bit 4.050 (zip) (6132kb) clrmamepro 64bit 4.050 (exe) (4645kb)
Documentation

How to use this piece of software...

clrmame readme with all needed information can be found here

Unfortunately for old clrmamepro, there is only a clrmamepro 3.x documentation floating around here

In the meantime tutorials might help you:

ZipMax

Good old ZipMax

Here you can download the latest version of ZipMax. It's not being developed anymore.

Read the how2compile.txt & copyright.txt before compiling zipmax. Both files are available in the archive.

You may need 7zip's zip program to use it. Here you can also download Ben Jos Walbeehm's Tools:

History

History can be found here.