OPTIONS

mkmamedb supports the following options:

--all-sets

Do the action for all configured sets.

-C types, --hash-types types

A comma separated list of hash types to compute when creating a ROM set description from a directory of zip archives. Supported hash types are: crc, md5, sha1. Default are all.

--detector xml-file

Use CMPro XML header skip detector description from file. This overrides any detectors given in the file itself. mkmamedb looks for the detector in the input file (if it is a zip file) or the directory of the input file.

--directory-cache

When mkmamedb is used to create a database from an input directory, it will by default write a .ckmame.db database file to it, caching the directory contents' hashes in it so that consecutive re-runs are faster. When mkmamedb finds such a database, it only computes the hashes for the files that have changed since the last run.

-F format, --format format

Specify output format. Supported formats are cm (clrmamepro dat file), dat (XML datfile), db (ckmame(1) database), and mtree (mtree(8) file). The default is cm.

-f, --force

Create database even if it is not out-of-date.

-h, --help

Display a short help message.

--no-directory-cache

Turn off --directory-cache.

-o dbfile, --output dbfile

Write to database dbfile instead of the default “mame.db”.

--list-available-dats

List the names of all dats found in the configured dat directories.

--list-dats

List dats configured for the selected set.

--list-sets

List all configured sets.

--mia-games file

Mark ROMs from games listed in file as mia, except if their name matches “delete-unknown-pattern”.

--only-files pattern

When reading files from the file system as input, only accept files matching the shell glob pattern.

--prog-description description

Set description for the program the ROM info is from.

--prog-name name

Set name of the program the ROM info is from.

--prog-version version

Set version of the program the ROM info is from.

--set pattern

Run mkmamedb for all sets matching pattern.

--skip-files pattern

When reading files from the file system as input, skip files matching the shell glob

-t, --use-temp-directory

Create the output in a temporary directory and move it to the real output when finished. This might speed up the creation e.g. of mame.db when your current working directory is on a slow file system.

-u, --roms-unzipped

ROMs are files on the disk. Each game is represented by a directory instead of a ZIP archive. Only relevant when creating a database based on file system contents.

--use-description-as-name

Use the value of the “description” field instead of the “name” field as game name.

-V, --version

Display program name and version number.

-x pat, --exclude pat

Exclude games with names matching pat from the created database.