> From the binary? Are you referring to the mame32 v98 executable? The ROMS
> can't be there because you legally cannot have the emulator and the ROMs
> together.



You got a major misunderstanding of datfiles and romsets.
A datfile is just a textfile which describes the romsets, something like:

game (
name puckmanf
rom ( name namcopac.6e merge namcopac.6e size 4096 crc fee263b3 sha1 87117ba5082cd7a615b4ec7c02dd819003fbd669 region cpu1 offs 0 )
rom ( name nampfast.6f size 4096 crc 51b38db9 sha1 0a796f93462aec4758c2aa1c1f34cd05bb10a178 region cpu1 offs 1000 )
rom ( name namcopac.6h merge namcopac.6h size 4096 crc 02083b03 sha1 7e1945f6eb51f2e51806d0439f975f7a2889b9b8 region cpu1 offs 2000 )


....

Such datfiles are the basis for clrmamepro. You can either download such datfiles for emulators (e.g. MAME) or some emulators can export such datfiles directly. MAME can and clrmamepro can directly import this data.

So you can directly import the database from a MAME binary (e.g. mame32.exe or whatever) and after that you scan your ROMSETS on your harddisk. Scanning means, the ROMSETS will be checked against the data given by the datfile / MAME data import.



Roman Scherzer