Can I combine the results of dat files?

[A Former User]

Hi there,

I have a romset for FBNeo, located the FBNeo dat files on Github and used clrmamepro to process "NeoGeo only".

However I (think) I also want the "Arcade only" dat collection, as there might be some interesting games in there as well. That and I am not sure whether coin mechanics can be used in the NeoGeo versions. If I want both the Arcade and NeoGeo collections, do I just run the "Arcade only" dat file on the original romset and then merge the two resulting directories?

Help is greatly appreciated!

[mitu]

In RetroPie, the NeoGeo system is separate, so you can copy the NeoGeo romset collection to the neogeo folder and the arcade only romset to arcade.
You can combine them if you want, but you might want to keep neogeo separate just in case you'd want a different configuration applied to it (see this post for an example of why you'd want that).