> If i run "mame32 -listxml" in the command line I get nothing.

you have to redirect the output to a file and you have to wait a while. The prompt is directly back but the redirected file is still being filled.



> I'm wondering if I can extract the full dat from clrmamepro.

You can export the cleaned version of the datfile with settings->export. But you don't need it since redirecting the xml output (or piping it through xml2info) works fine.

Roman Scherzer
ClrMamePro