Reply To: Consolidating my list of MAME and FBA roms

[Floob]

[quote=96463]So….from what I understand from that article is I can use CLRMAMEPRO to select the PARENT and the CLONE .zip files and recreate them as NON-SPLIT SETS (all clonesets will now include parentset files)? Once that is done, I should be able to delete the versions I don’t want?

Example: PUCKMAN is the parentset and PACMAN is the clone. If I use CLRMAMEPRO and run both as NON-SPLIT sets, it will provide PACMAN with the parentset files and be able to run on its own so that I can then delete PUCKMAN as it’s no longer needed. Is that right?

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Yes, that should work. Bear in mind the romsets filesize will grow – but if you are going to delete the vast majority of clones it shouldnt be much of an issue.
Then if you want to tidy up further, this can help strip out unwanted games
http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister/

Ask user “Roo” for more details, he’s a bit of a MAME whizz.