@etabeta: I see your points and honestly can't make a definite opinion either. Either way if you are going to merge all clones into the vc4000 list there are quite a few dumps that still need to be added to it. If you're going with a merged list then Musical Memory shouldn't be added since it's the exact same rom as memory2, same goes for SportsWorld it's the same rom as paddleg. Which brings me to the next question, if you do merge them what will you do regarding the rom names? Because while the roms are the same across all clones (the actual carts are totally different though) the game names are very different. I sent Team Europe a close to complete Videomaster/Voltmace set and apart from the exclusives everything else matched the Interton dumps.
these are exactly my concerns, and I have no answer for the moment As a start we will have separate lists for the main brands, with duplicated dumps if the cart content is verified to be the same and with multiple titles (as in vc4000.xml) if different companies used different titles