> In case of the nodump it's just either having a file more or not. It might be > possible that the clones do work with a file from the related setsbut it also might > be that they don't...so..again...personal taste...
The games that are marked in MAME as 'working' and have a file missing for 'no dump' but still work anyway I doubt would show any difference if CMP added an extra file. But are you saying that if a game that is marked as 'not working' in MAME and has a file missing for 'no dump' and CMP can add an extra file due to some form of 'matching', that the game could then work? If so, have you seen this actually happen?
Just curious, because if you were going to make certain defaults. I still prefer the 'split sets' and MAME 'no dump' specifications. Merged sets are interesting but would be really annoying if you had to do some manual housekeeping; ie having to hunt through the dat file. Also, 'split sets' makes it easy to remove unwanted 'clones' from your collection; ie just delete the zip file.