> MAME doesn't complain because MAME's loading procedure is a mess ;) It simply
> looks in all sets of a parent/clone relationship and looks for a matching
> checksum. It doesn't care about romnames at all.

then, shouldn't cmp stop caring about romnames too? ^_^ not complaining about this one, but i always found a bit strange your (and logiqx's) stance about this. in logiqx's case, i always thought "why doesn't he at least make it optional". in your case, i am actually surprised with the amount of options cmp already has that you didn't include this one. but your statement about not using merge tags explains it all...

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