NAME

dumpgame — extract rom set information from ckmame database

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

dumpgame extracts rom set information from a ckmame(1) database. dumpgame can also find roms matching a particular checksum.

dumpgame supports the following options:

--all-sets

Do the action for all configured sets.

-b, --brief

Use brief mode: don't output ROM and disk information.

-c, --checksum

Look for a ROM or disk by checksum (instead of the default behaviour to look for a game by name).

-D dbfile, --rom-db dbfile

Use database dbfile instead of the default “mame.db”.

--dats

Names of the datfiles used for creating the database, and their descriptions.

--detector

Name and version of the CMPro XML header skip detector used (if any).

--disks

List names of all disks in the database.

--games

List names of all games in the database.

--hash-types

Types of checksums used (crc, md5, sha1). One line each for roms and disks.

-h, --help

Display a short help message.

--list-sets

List all configured sets.

--mia

List names of games containing ROMs that are marked as mia in the database.

--set pattern

Run dumpgame for all sets matching pattern.

--summary

List some statistics about the contents of the database.

-V, --version

Display program name and version number.

ENVIRONMENT

MAMEDB

Location for the database file. Can be overridden with the -D option. Defaults to “mame.db”.

EXAMPLES

Display rom information for the game “pacman”:

SEE ALSO

mkmamedb(1), ckmamerc(5)

AUTHORS

dumpgame was written by Dieter Baron <dillo@nih.at> and Thomas Klausner <wiz@gatalith.at>.