> hi there Roman, i have a suggestion to CMP. let's say for example i have the
> full set for WinKawaks 1.55 and FBA v0.2.95.23. since most roms are common (many
> only differ on the file name but have the same crc32) to both sets, my idea was
> to merge the DATs from both sets in a way that i would have one single set with
> the unique roms from each set and only one copy of the common roms or 3 sets, 1
> for unique1, 1 for unique2 and 1 for common, thus saving space without losing
> any of the previous sets. what do you think?


That's an option for other tools which will create several dats (common, unique 1, unique 2) from a set of dats. Mainly logiqx does this already with all his mame supplement datfiles. It won't be included in the current cmpro engine.


Roman Scherzer