> > 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
>
what about creating a tool that does this Roman? ;D