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3.1 (Unreleased)

  • Improve speed on slow file systems.
  • By default, don't update RomDB if dat is empty, can be overridden by allow-empty-dat configuration option.
  • Improve readability of help message by splitting options into sections.

3.0 (2025-01-20)

  • Keep results of last runs, use ckstatus to query state of ROM set. The ckmame command line options duplicating this functionality (--complete-list, --missing-list, and --report-changes) are deprecated.
  • Add support for SHA256 and mia flag for ROMs and disks.
  • Don't match any files for ROMs or disks with no hashes.
  • When only keeping complete games, minimize searching when a ROM is missing.

2.1 (2024-02-23)

  • Add --report-changes to show changes between last and current run.
  • Add --delete-unknown-pattern to remove unknown files matching a pattern.
  • Switch to nihtest.

2.0 (2022-05-31)

  • Support for configuration file and multiple sets.
  • Overhaul command line options.
  • Automatically update ROM DB.
  • Speed up ROM sets with many files shared among many games.
  • Improve parse error reporting, don't create mamedb for dats with errors, fix inconsistencies in dat.
  • Improve detector support.

1.1 (2021-06-28)

  • Read-only 7z support.
  • Improve detector support.
  • Bump mamedb version. All mame.db files need to be regenerated.
  • Follow MAME in expecting disk images in subdirectories.
  • Remove broken support for checking samples.
  • Convert to C++17.

1.0 (2018-12-18)

  • add --stats to print stats about the state of the ROM set
  • add support to only keep complete games in ROM set
  • add --autofixdat to create fixdat with a name based on the dat name
  • improve MAME (neogeo set) support
  • fix up regression test suite
  • switched to CMake build system

0.12 (2015-05-03)

  • add support for on-disk caches to speed up consecutive runs
  • support for ROMs in directories instead of in zip archives
  • fix all fixable ROM errors automatically in one run
  • speed up database operations by preparing statements only once
  • remove torrentzip support (removed in libzip)

0.11 (2011-02-20)

  • MESS Software Lists support
  • retire mkmamedb-xmame.sh, use mame -listxml | mkmamedb instead
  • link/copy disks from extra if -j (--delete-found) isn't specified
  • ckmame: display current game on SIGINFO (CTRL-T)
  • removed ROMPATH support since mame uses a path in the config file nowadays

0.10 (2008-07-25)

  • use SQLite3 instead of Berkeley DB
  • optionally TorrentZip ROM set
  • mkmamedb: add support for ROM Management Datafile format
  • mkmamedb: add support to read dat files from zip archives
  • mkmamedb: extract version and game description from -listxml output
  • ckmame: fix finding ROMs that need detectors from superfluous and extra
  • change to 3-clause BSD license

0.9 (2007-06-04)

  • add support for CMPro XML header skip detectors
  • fix handling of zero byte ROMs
  • dumpgame: brief option: no ROM/disk info
  • mkmamedb: add support for reading Romcenter dat files
  • mkmamedb: warn about multiple games with same name
  • mkmamedb: create CMPro dat files
  • mkmamedb: create mame db or CMPro dat file from zip archives
  • ckmame: add option to keep files present in old ROM database

0.8 (2006-05-18)

  • clean up superfluous files and extra directories
  • use additional DB listing files that exist elsewhere
  • read games to check from file
  • create DB from multiple dat files
  • omit games matching shell glob patterns from database
  • don't open archives or disk images multiple times
  • don't accept disk images that need a parent
  • move unknown files to directory unknown, not to garbage in ROM path

0.7 (2005-12-28)

  • fix all fixable errors in at most two runs
  • rename disks
  • support searching for files in additional directories
  • detect faked ROMs (correct CRC, wrong MD5/SHA1)
  • adapt mkmamedb-xmame.sh for MAME version numbers of 0.100 and above
  • dropped support for inferring flags/status from CRC (old MAME versions)
  • deprecated -u/-U command line options
  • simplify ROM matching logic
  • many new regression tests, causing
  • various bug fixes

0.6 (2005-06-17)

  • libzip is distributed separately
  • Support MAME/MESS -listxml output
  • Adapt for MAME -listinfo output changes (honor flags baddump and nodump).
  • Check disk images (chd files).
  • Superfluous merged into ckmame. ckmame now by default reports extra files. Also works for samples.
  • add file format version to database and don't use incompatible database
  • dumpgame: find game by checksum of one of its ROMs
  • add script to create database by running xmame

0.5 (2003-01-30)

  • MESS, Impact, Raine, and others based on the CMPro format now supported.
  • Man page added.
  • Bug fixes.

0.4.1 (1999-10-06)

  • If a a clone zip didn't exist, it was not created.
  • The DOS port now really can fix romsets.

0.4 (1999-09-23)

  • The whole program.