3.84

added: profiler option: 'parse merge tags' (default = off)

Enabling this will add support for 'merge' in datfiles. This is generally some additional merging information, commonly used to ignore identical files within a parent/clone relationship with different names.

When you enable this option and scan sets which were scanned without that option in the past, you run into some
wrong name / unneeded file (move to parent) messages. That's normal (since that's exactly what the merge tags were made for) and if you enable the fix options, they get fixed.


added: profiler option 'don't create dummy clones' (default = on)

Enabling this option will allow clrmamepro to split-merge fake clones (100% identical sets within a parent/clone relationship). In other words they will be fully merged into the parent.

Toggling these new options will clean the profiler cache, too.


misc: little merger speed increase
misc: using latest zipclass library



Roman Scherzer

If you keep the 'dont' create dummy clones' option enabled and have chds in subfolders, you might see some "wrong merged" entries for the former 'fake clones'. Move the chd to the parent folder and remove the empty subfolder then.
Example: calspeeda is 100% identical to calspeed, if you keep the chds in subfolderrs called calspeeda and calspeed, move the calspeeda.chd in calspeed to the calspeed folder (since that's the parent) and remove the empty chd-subfolder calspeeda.

Another warning about enabling the 'parse merge tags' option. Older MAME versions had WRONG merge tag information. So when you scan old MAME version you may run into big trouble using that option. Next clrmamepro version will get some additional test if the merge tags are correct or not.



Roman Scherzer