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I know this is possibly not the right place to ask this but

Can anyone out there help me please.

I am trying to use Datutil to create a datfile by scanning a directory. I have tried what I believe to be the correct method but am having no joy.

I am running datutil through CMD.EXE on a win8 pc and the method stated in the Datutil txt file which I have been trying is

Datutil -f romcenter2 <rom path>

It just doesn't seem to create the Datutil.dat file.

First you need to ZIP all your game files into separate archives.

game1.zip
game2.zip
game3.zip....

then type

datutil "c:\the name of the directory to scan"

>example
>datutil "D:\AmstradMania v7\crc"

you must use the quotes round the dir name.

once the dat file has been created (CMPRO dat is default)
>datutil datutil.dat

will convert it to Romcenter

If you intend to import the RC dat into GameBase you need to edit the Header version number from 2.50 to 2.00.

Cheers for the info .mad.

It seems I hadn't put the rom path address into the "" quote marks.

As soon as I did that it worked. Cheers.