Recommended Tools

• Zip & GZ Compression and Unzipping
• SD Card Repair
• Image Writers
• File Transfer
• CHD Files
• Collection Management
  • General
  • Arcade
• Scraping

Zip & GZ Compression and Unzipping

• Windows: 7-zip
• OS X: The Unarchiver

SD Card Repair

• Official SD Memory Card Formatter

Image Writers

• Windows
  • Win32 Disk Imager
  • USB Imaging Tool
  • Rufus
  • balenaEtcher
• OS X & Linux
  • rpi-imager

File Transfer

• FileZilla
• WinSCP

CHD Files

• chdman - A command line tool to create chds. The latest version of chdman.exe can be found in the latest zip version of MAME
• namDHC - A frontend for chdman. Requires chdman.exe

For more details on converting to CHD, please see the Converting to CHD section.

Collection Management

General

• LaunchBox

Arcade

• Romcenter - Romcenter is a GUI driven tool for curating ROM sets. It allows you to load in XML dat files and rebuild your collection into your preferred romset structure. It is a little simpler to get started with than clrmamepro
• clrmamepro - clrmamepro is the standard tool for managing ROM sets. It is very powerful, but also a bit hard to get started with
• JRomManager - A rom manager written entirely in Java. Can be used on OSX and Linux
• ROMLister - ROMLister is a tool to filter ROM sets based on a wide variety of ROM metadata

Scraping

• Skraper