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RoFage is a small-sized application written in Java that permits you to load ROM configuration files with the XML format, examine content, and make modifications. It features a few handy options, such as various filters, a duplicates remover, an archiver cleaner, and a compression tool.

As long as you have Java set up on your PC, you don't need to install anything else. This means that you can save the program files anywhere on the disk and just click the JAR executable to launch RoFage. Another possibility is to save it to a USB flash drive to be able to run it on any computer with Java. More importantly, it doesn't modify Windows registry settings, unlike most installers.

The GUI is user-friendly, represented by a large window with a neatly organized structure, where you can load an XML file, scan it, rename it, clean it up, as well as compress the file to reduce its size.

Shown information reveals the title, size, country of origin, publisher, source, language and genre of each ROM, and you can filter them by any of these criteria. Missing, correctly or incorrectly named ROM can be exported to file for closer examination, as well as later imported. Moreover, the utility is capable of automatically identifying and eliminating duplicates, in order to free up space.

As far as ROM configuration is concerned, you can set the tool to attempt to detect trimmed or modified ROMs with the internal name, indicate the root folder to scan, edit the ROM naming pattern (e.g. release number, location, country code, title, editor, CRC), update images while browsing, automatically update the DAT files and images, adjust the compression rate and delete the source files on task completion, rename or clean during import, or specify the preferred ROM location.

No error dialogs popped up in our tests, and the software program didn't hang or crash. Its impact on the overall performance of the PC was minimal, since it required low CPU and RAM to function normally. RoFage features handy options to help you examine and edit ROM files. Too bad it hasn't been updated for a long time.