NAME
romcmp - MAME rom and romsets check and comparison tool
SYNOPSIS
romcmp [-option] [dir1|zip1] [dir2|zip2]
DESCRIPTION
An eternal nuisance in arcade emulation are incomplete or corrupt dumps
of the ROM chips. romcmp is a tool developed to detect the most common
errors that can occur when dumping ROMS, for example stuck bits and
address line errors.
It can check the ROMs in ZIP files or subdirectories.
romcmp can also be used to compare two ROM sets, by giving it two files
or subdirectories as parameters. It will determine which ROMS are
identical and which are the closest matches. This is useful when
figuring out if a newly dumped ROM set is a clone of another ROM set.
OPTIONS
-d Enables a slower, more comprehensive comparison.
EXAMPLES
romcmp jumpkids.zip will output the following:
11 files
23.3c FIXED BITS (xxxxxx1x)
23.3c FIRST AND SECOND HALF IDENTICAL
This tells us that the 23.3C ROM in Jump Kids is bad, and incidentally,
it causes the missing sound in that game.