Zip & GZ Compression and Unzipping
SD Card Repair
Image Writers
File Transfer
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
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