> This is easy for you but not for others, in the meantime I read and learn asap.
> Question is: what is the best/safer source place to get and method to bring in a
> DAT file ? I see there are multiple ways but want to figure out which way to do
> it from here forward rather than changing every time and making errors spoiling
> the collection (!!!)...
> THANKS !
> ciao,
> Mpeg
>
You're only talking about Mame here? That's easy, just use your mame.exe/mame32.exe to get the data from. That way, CMP will detect when it is updated and will automatically update the data it uses to scan with.