- Empty attributes are now ignored (e.g. sha1="")
- Removed cloneof, romof and sampleof fixes from datutil -i
- DatUtil -i, -I and -p now default the output format to CMPro
(in addition to -g, -G and -r which already behave like that)
- Added support for the isbios="yes" of MAME v0.117u2 onwards.
01/01/2007 *** v2.20 ***
- Added 'prune' feature for removing roms, disk and/or samples
- Added 'incorporate' feature to assist in combining datafiles
30/12/2006 *** v2.19 ***
- Internal change that only affects MAMEDiff (see note below)
- Improved -dX modes (understands merging despite differing names)
17/10/2006 *** v2.18 ***
- More intelligent DTD creation when saving in ListXML format
- Added support for game/display (MAME v0.107)
- Added support for game/input/control (MAME v0.107)
- Added support for emulator/build (MAME+MESS v0.101u4 upwards)
- Added support for driver/savestate (MAME v0.101u1 upwards)
- Note: The above changes affect the tab delimited format!
16/07/2006 *** v2.17 ***
- Fixed bug that caused the DatUtil -g and -r options to crash
11/07/2006 *** v2.16 ***
- Fixed bug that messed up internal indices (affected crc matching)
- More intelligent directory scanner (regarding samples and CHDs)
- Removed 64MB file limit from directory scanner (reads 1MB blocks)
13/01/2006 *** v2.15 ***
- Last release would not load data files less than 4KB in size!
12/01/2006 *** v2.14 ***
- Added a save-only format to imitate MAME's gamelist.txt file.
- File identification is now done by loading just the first 4KB.
06/12/2005 *** v2.13 ***
- DatLib v2.12 broke the RomCenter drivers (now fixed).
05/12/2005 *** v2.12 ***
- Fixed a rare crash (if the longest line in the dat was the last).
- Fixed a problem loading RomCenter data files containing [].
13/11/2005 *** v2.11 ***
- Added support for 'board', 'colordeep', 'credits' and 'archive'
(fully supported by ListInfo, ListXML and Delimited formats).
- M1 XML loader now retains the 'board' information (see above).
- M1 XML will not use hex for ROM sizes after all... changed back!
- Improved the way that the Nebula driver handles Neo-Geo ROMs.
- Fixed Nebula Jukebox driver for Neo-Geo ROMs (broken in v2.7).
31/10/2005 *** v2.10 ***
- Fixed identification of ListXML for MAME+MESS v0.101u4 onwards.
- Added OPTION_ALWAYS_QUOTE for DatUtil (the '-q' option).
28/10/2005 *** v2.9 ***
- Added better support for file formats that use hex ROM sizes.
- M1 XML will use hex for ROM sizes. Changed driver accordingly.
- Now reports duplicate game descriptions and CRCs (i.e. ROMs).
05/10/2005 *** v2.8 ***
- Improved the logerror() function (used for reporting ZIP errors).
- Added support for M1's XML format (when it becomes available).
25/03/2005 *** v2.4 ***
- Fixed another crash with datutil -X and 'forcemerging full'.
- Changed the delimited format to use \N for NULLs.
- Changed the delimited format so that all types are 'game_*'.
- Changed the delimited format so that games include 'runnable'.
- Added save support for a DISK section in the RomCenter format.
- Added several aliases for the output formats (see DatUtil docs).
07/03/2005 *** v2.3 ***
- Fixed a problem with counting parents (happened with DatUtil -X).
- This also avoids a crash with datutil -X and 'forcemerging full'.
