1. CheckCDB - Cheat Database Checker
2. MAME Cheat Database Converters
3. Kiwi NEO Genie -> MAME 034 RC1 Cheat Database Converter
4. MAMERAIN -> MAME to RAINE Cheat Database Converter
5. RAINMAME -> RAINE to MAME Cheat Database Converter

6. MAME -> KAWAKS/NEBULA Cheat Converter

7. FIXGEN - CLRMAME Pro DAT Fix Generator

1. CheckCDB - Cheat Database Checker

CheckCDB is the essential cheat file maintenance util by Mac LAK. This utility is intended to perform a check on MAME's cheat databases, in order to avoid loading errors/cheat losses and shows which games have no cheats (nifty!).

2. MAME Cheat Database Converters

If you have an old cheat file - PRE 0.34B8, then a lot of the cheats will not be work from 0.34B8 to 0.37 FINAL. To correct this you will need to convert the cheat file with the MAME Cheat Database Converter from JCK. NOTE: All the latest cheat files available from this site have already been converted so unless you make your own cheats you are unlikely to need this file.

If you have an PRE 0.38B1 cheat file, then ALL the cheats will not be work from 0.38B1 onwards due to a major rewrite of the cheat engine allowing several new powerful cheat types. To correct this you will need to convert the cheat file with the latest MAME Cheat Database Converter from JCK. NOTE: All the latest cheat files available from this site for use with these newer MAMEs will have already been converted when 0.38B1 is released, so unless you make your own cheats you are unlikely to need this file. This download will only become active when 0.38B1 has been released - so don't try to download it before then, it won't work!

3. Kiwi NEO Genie -> MAME 034 RC1 Cheat Database Converter

If you have a Neo Genie cheat file you won't be able to use it with MAME without converting it. This conversion to MAME format can be done by another excellent util from JCK. It is however a beta program and should be used with care and with reference to the instructions. At the moment there are more neogeo cheats in my cheat file (Pugsy's) then in the readily available neo genie files - so unless you have some private neo genie files you are unlikely to need this. If you do have private neo genie files then please share them!

4. MAMERAIN -> MAME to RAINE Cheat Database Converter

MAMERAIN is a brilliant utility from JCK that will convert cheats from MAME format into the RAINE emulator cheat format. Once again it is a beta program and should be used with care and in conjunction with the instructions. There are two versions available for download - V4.0B will make a cheat file suitable for use with RAINE 0.32A from a MAME 0.37 BETA 16 cheat file, V3.1B will create a cheat file for use with a RAINE before 0.32A.

RAINMAME is a another useful utility from JCK that does the opposite of MAMERAIN ie. it converts cheats from RAINE format into the MAME format. Once again it is a beta program and should be used with care and in conjunction with the instructions. V1.0B will make a cheat file suitable for use with MAME 0.37 BETA 16 from a RAINE 0.32A cheat file. Read the text files for more information.

MAME2KN is utility I (Pugsy) quickly knocked up to convert cheats from a MAME cheat file into the .dat files for KAWAKS/NEBULA + maybe some others - at the time of writing it's only been tested on cps1/cps2 and neogeo games (it may work for other arcade systems...it may not). Use it at your own risk. This converter will work for a MAME cheat file upto 0.55 (at the time of writing). Read the text file for more information.

FIXGEN is a non-cheat related tool that I (Pugsy) made in a couple of hours. This program will take a CLRMAME Pro logfile and from it create a dat file that a third person can use with CLRMAME Pro to generate a zip file containing all the files (roms etc) that they have but you have not got. This makes it easy to swap ROMs without manually finding, unzipping and rezipping the ones the other person requires. Just send the produced .dat file called 'nickname'.dat to them. Then when they feed it in to CLRMAME Pro and they use the CLRMAME Pro Rebuilder function it will make a big zip called 'nickname'fix.zip when fed with the appropriate ROM dirs. Though for this to work you will need one vital ingredient - friends with ROMs!! Hopefully Roman will add this feature to CLRMAME in the future making this tool obsolete. UPDATE: Roman has now followed my suggestion and added this feature to CLRMAME - so this tool is now obsolete.