Editing ROM managers

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* Complete a "Recommended" column
* Add comparisons
* Make a tools category on [[Main Page]]
* Add more ROM managers
* Add controller stuff
* Add stuff like Mesa (what is it?)
* Edit [[MAME]] to link here
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'''ROM managers''' are quality-of-life tools designed to organize a game collection for use in an emulator. It often serves two purposes; it can view any game an emulator supports and list the ones that you have, and it may also be able to fix any potential problems with the collection (as some projects like [[MAME]] require the presence of all ROM files in order to run a driver). Some ROM managers may even work as a [[Frontends|frontend]], by being able to launch an emulator from their UI.

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==General ROM managers==
* Romulus
==Emulator-specific managers==
* Clrmamepro
==Non-ROM managers==
* Steam ROM Manager
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==ROM Managers==
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
!Name
!Latest version
!Active
!Recommended
!Noteworthy Callouts
|-
! colspan="5"|PC / x86
|-
|[https://www.romvault.com RomVault]
|[https://www.romvault.com {{RomVaultVer}}]
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|style="text-align:left;"|Scales to support massive collections, in-app DAT downloads with DatVault for [https://www.patreon.com/romvault Patreon] supporters, Linux support with mono, very active development and Discord.
|-
|[https://github.com/undeadindustries/romper Romper]
|[https://github.com/undeadindustries/romper/releases/tag/v0.0.2-alpha 0.0.2-alpha]
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|style="text-align:left;"|MAME focused ROM manager to download and organize your ROMs. Very fast and easy to use.
|-
|[https://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro Clrmamepro]
|[https://mamedev.emulab.it/clrmamepro/#downloads {{ClrmameproVer}}]
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|style="text-align:left;"|Well established, features and functions are MAME centric, but still easy usable with another systems.
|-
|[https://github.com/optyfr/JRomManager JRomManager]
|[https://github.com/optyfr/JRomManager/releases {{JRomManagerVer}}]
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|style="text-align:left;"|Multi-threaded scanning and archive building. Features and functions are MAME centric, but still easy usable with another systems. In contrast to Clrmamepro, it allows to store ROMs without obligatory allocation to folders of the same name.
|-
|[https://github.com/emmercm/igir igir]
|[https://github.com/emmercm/igir/releases {{IgirVer}}]
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}<ref group=N>Command line program - does not have a graphical interface.</ref>
|style="text-align:left;"|Command line only. Integrates well into custom workflows.
|-
|[https://github.com/alucryd/oxyromon oxyromon]
|[https://github.com/alucryd/oxyromon/releases {{OxyROMonVer}}]
|{{✓}}
|{{TBD}}
|
|-
|[https://github.com/Mode8fx/EzRO-gui EzRO]
|[https://github.com/Mode8fx/EzRO-gui/releases v1.22]
|{{✓}}
|{{~}}<ref group=N>Strictly predefined for use with the No-Intro database.</ref>
|style="text-align:left;"|Has GUI and lots of options.
|-
|[https://github.com/drakewill-CRL/ROMSorter ROMSorter]
|[https://github.com/drakewill-CRL/ROMSorter/releases Release 6]
|{{~}}
|{{TBD}}
|
|-
|[https://github.com/cosmo0/arcade-manager ArcadeManager]
|[https://github.com/cosmo0/arcade-manager/releases 7.1]
|{{~}}
|{{TBD}}
|
|-
|[https://github.com/oldtools/skeletonkey skeletonKey]
|[https://github.com/oldtools/skeletonKey/releases git]
|{{~}}
|{{TBD}}
|
|-
|[http://www.romcenter.com Romcenter]
|[https://www.romcenter.com/downloadpage/ 4.1.1]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|
|-
|[https://romulus.dats.site Romulus Rom Manager]
|[https://romulus.dats.site/#downloads 0.049]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|
|-
! colspan="5"|Docker
|-
|[https://github.com/zurdi15/romm RomM]
|[https://github.com/zurdi15/romm/releases {{RomMVer}}]
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|
|-
|[https://github.com/gaseous-project/gaseous-server Gaseous]
|[https://github.com/gaseous-project/gaseous-server/releases {{GaseousVer}}]
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|
|-
|}
<references group=N />

==Misc==
* https://github.com/longjoel/MameMiner
* https://github.com/doZennn/steam-rom-manager

==See also==
* [[GoodTools]]
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