Onze Oosterbuur Roman Scherzer komt de MAME-community verblijden met ClrMamePro. Bij elke nieuwe versie van MAME zijn er nieuwe ROM's toegevoegd en oude verwijderd. ClrMamePro is bedoeld als hulpmiddel om de ROM collectie up-to-date te houden. Zo kan het onder andere ontbrekende ROM's eenvoudig opsporen, foutief genoemde ROM's hernoemen, en overbodige bestanden verwijderen. Het changelog van de laatste paar versies ziet er als volgt uit:
3.40b (12-Jul-2004):3.40a (06-Jul-2004):
- misc: changed the checksum window a bit
- misc: separated xerces dll from main package, repacked files
- fixed: scanresults shows empty output for chdfiles with no given md5
3.40 (28-Jun-2004):
- misc: improved detection of same-name-different-hash entries in database
- XML support readded
- xerces-c_2_5_0.dll is now needed and included in the current package.
- MAME, PINMAME and MESS engines use -listxml now.
- 'engine.cfg' has to be replaced with the one in this package.
- added enginetype OLD_MAME for MAME versions without -listxml.
- removed some entries from engine.cfg
- A new engine.cfg will show you prompts for each and any profile which was created/loaded with the old engine.cfg.
- Little PinMAME (1.32.001) issue: Current PinMAME got a '&' character in one romname, causing xml importing to fail since it has to be coded as '&'. This should be fixed with the next PinMAME version. If you still want to use ClrMamePro with current PINMAME, you have to change engine.cfg's PINMAME entry back to "command -listinfo".