ClrMamePro Comparison

Similarities

• Same features (with simpler names)
  1. Cleaner - equivalent of Scanner.. responsible for ensuring your collection is correct and minimal.
  2. Merger - equivalent of Rebuilder.. responsible for importing new content into your collection.
• Workflow
  1. Run Merger - import new files.
  2. Run Cleaner - confirm your collection is 'clean' (based on user preferences).
• Results
  1. Results - interactive screen.
  2. Statistics.
  3. Logs.

Differences

• Extra features
  1. Feeder - check for online content to see if there is any updated content of interest.
  2. Explorer - navigate your collection based on user defined filters.
  3. Modern UI - an interactive UI based on the Google's Material Design using a dark theme.
• Absent features
  1. ClrVpin DOES NOT update any ROMs This is a deliberate decision as their is no need to update/maintain ROM files when so many existing Mame related tools perform this job (e.g. ClrMamePro, romcmp, etc).
  2. The 'source of truth' are NOT dat files containing file checksums. Such a thing does not exist in the Visual Pinball world (yet!). Instead the 'source of truth' is two fold..
  3. Your local PinballY (open source) or Visual Pinball X (open source) database file(s) - which are automatically maintained as you add/remove/update tables via ClrVpin or the frontend.
  4. VPS feed - meticulously maintained (by an open source community) to track online pinball content updates.